Tag: school shootings
120 countries have signed the Safe Schools Declaration. Sadly, the US...
Should the United States join the Safe Schools Declaration and support the global movement to protect education from attack?
It is time to show the American people photographs of children...
Pictures convey reality in a way that words cannot.
3 ways to prevent school shootings, based on research
A pair of researchers on school violence share three strategies that have been proven to prevent school shootings.
How to reduce school shootings
A combination of policy changes and increased safety measures could help reduce the risk of school shootings, says psychology professor Paul Boxer.
At March for Our Lives, a call for a nationwide strike...
“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job.”
‘Radical and disgusting stance’: 44% of GOP voters think US just...
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that she cannot "accept children being gunned down in classrooms and mass shootings in grocery stores, salons, and places of worship."
Republicans, complicit in mass shootings, aiding & abetting domestic terrorists
We're going to find out before long, not whether America is an exceptional, indispensable nation but, rather, whether it can still be called a civilized nation.
‘Madness’: Ohio GOP passes bill to arm teachers
"We aren't trusted with the books we choose, but somehow we're supposed to be trusted with a gun in school?" asked one teachers' union leader.
Books, not magazines: Outcry grows over DeVos plan to divert federal...
DeVos’s plan would use federal Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants to pay for firearms and to train educators in their use.
Bernie Sanders calls out NRA when asked if enough has been...
“Of course not!” Sanders said. “But it’s like every other issue. The American people are united overwhelmingly.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.