America Tolerates High Levels of Violence but Suppresses Photos of the Slaughter
It’s time to publish graphic images of school shootings and other acts of violence. But change won’t come from that alone.
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In Australia's Election, Rupert Murdoch Was a Surprise Loser
The Labor Party's victory offers a blueprint for diminishing the global influence of the Fox News founder.
We All Know Mass Killers Love the AR-15. Now Meet Their Favorite Bullet.
After Uvalde, there’s still no gun control on the horizon. We can start by regulating hyper-destructive expanding ammunition then.
Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do
It should not take an event so devastating to break the spell of policing mythology about what cops do — and what they don't.
AR-15s Were Made to Explode Human Bodies. In Uvalde, the Bodies Belonged to Children.
Parents awaiting word on their kids were asked by police to provide DNA samples to help identify the children.
Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it.
After Buffalo, Will Corporate America Turn Against the Murdochs and Fox News?
Why the Murdochs should become the next Sacklers.
Abortion Activists Need to Win Back the Culture Before We Can Win Back the Court
Make abortion normal again.
Racist “Replacement” Conspiracy Is Undergirded by a Real Resource Scarcity
It would be folly to ignore the inequality, resource scarcity, and ecological calamity that lurk behind the Buffalo shooter's racist conspiracy theories.
The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft opinion to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point.