Tag: gun violence
Student and teacher leadership will change the politics of gun control
Falling back on worn out ideology, bumper-sticker arguments, or self-serving strategizing likely won’t work. This is different.
Dallas official urges NRA to take its convention elsewhere and address...
Dwaine Caraway is asking the NRA to find another place to host this year's annual convention, as well as urging members to take a stand on the issue.
Gun violence has dropped dramatically in 3 states with very different...
To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.
Over 120 lawmakers call for an end to restrictions on gun...
The lawmakers want changes “that could help prevent gun violence while still protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”
Leading gun violence researcher: Media have a responsibility to cover the...
“This is really important legislation that could harm public safety.”
26 dead in Texas church shooting
Victims of the shooting range in ages from 5 to 72, including the Pastor's daughter and a pregnant woman.
The psychology of mass killers: What causes it? How can you...
But what is this ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’ violence that is inflicted on us mercilessly, and has a profoundly damaging impact, from the day we are born?
The evil that guns do
The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can’t be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.
What makes American society so violent?
These stories explore how violence permeates different aspects of American society.
After Las Vegas, these are the questions that can bring us...
If we can stop clinging to stories that obscure the truth of what happened, then what follows easily is, How can I help?
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America