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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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.