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It's the wrong response to incidents like Newtown.

Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics. 

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.

Weldon Angelos

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Democrats introduced a gun control bill on the first day of the new Congress. But can they overcome the NRA?

Farmworkers

Refusing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, Republicans are leaving rape victims with few options.

President Obama

Republicans have been blocking Obama's nominations—but the president’s refusal to fight back is part of the problem.

Robert Bork

Bork was denied a seat on the Supreme Court because he was a right-wing zealot, not because of campaign of liberal lies.

Blogs

The NFL cannot be a force for nonviolence because its popularity is the perfect reflection of what we’ve become as a country.

December 17, 2012

An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement has responded to the Connecticut massacre, calling for gun control policies that will save lives. 

December 17, 2012

The corporate group produces “model” legislation designed to prevent action. Even when mass killings demand it.

December 16, 2012

Everyone from Nicholas Kristof to Yoko Ono is speaking out for gun control.

December 14, 2012

The National Rifle Association has successfully stymied any effort to regulate gun ownership, but whom do they really represent?

December 14, 2012

Indiscriminate gun violence happened at a wide variety of different places—the only thing predicable is the frequency. 

December 14, 2012

Washington is so paralyzed on gun control it can’t seem to pass fundamentally sensible reforms. 

December 14, 2012

November's victories at the ballot box show the drug war is vulnerable. 

December 10, 2012

After a wave of criticism, The New York Times finally sent a reporter to the Manning trial… for a few hours.

December 10, 2012

Community members cried “murder!” during a public forum opened to discuss the shooting.

December 7, 2012
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