Talking Guns With a Glib Sociopath Talking Guns With a Glib Sociopath
Stop ignorantly scapegoating innocent guns.
Jun 21, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
Mapping Allegations of an American War Crime Mapping Allegations of an American War Crime
A new interactive platform invites you to explore evidence that an elite American unit murdered Afghan civilians and buried them around their base.
Jun 21, 2016 / Matthieu Aikins
These Senators Want to Stop Terrorists From Buying Guns (Unless They Use Craigslist) These Senators Want to Stop Terrorists From Buying Guns (Unless They Use Craigslist)
What’s the point of adding suspected terrorists to no-buy lists if background checks are still easily avoided?
Jun 20, 2016 / George Zornick
Sonia Sotomayor’s Epic Dissent Explains What’s at Stake When the Police Don’t Follow the Law Sonia Sotomayor’s Epic Dissent Explains What’s at Stake When the Police Don’t Follow the Law
In an opinion that cited Michelle Alexander and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Justice Sotomayor railed against the gutting of the Fourth Amendment.
Jun 20, 2016 / John Nichols
Jasmine Abdullah: ‘If I Don’t Do This, I’m Going to Die’ Jasmine Abdullah: ‘If I Don’t Do This, I’m Going to Die’
A conversation with the Black Lives Matter organizer jailed for “lynching” in Pasadena.
Jun 20, 2016 / Reniqua Allen
I Would Have Told Him to Love Himself I Would Have Told Him to Love Himself
Thoughts on being queer and Muslim in the wake of Omar Mateen’s massacre.
Jun 20, 2016 / HXA
There Was No Clear Agenda at the People’s Summit—and That’s a Good Thing There Was No Clear Agenda at the People’s Summit—and That’s a Good Thing
Despite hyped-up media accounts, Bernie-or-Bust was just one of many directions explored in Chicago.
Jun 20, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Devastating Process of Dying in America Without Insurance The Devastating Process of Dying in America Without Insurance
What do people do when they can’t afford end-of-life care?
Jun 20, 2016 / Mark Betancourt
An Assassination in Britain Calls Us to Recognize Our Duty to Keep Barbarism at Bay in America An Assassination in Britain Calls Us to Recognize Our Duty to Keep Barbarism at Bay in America
It is time to recognize that “divisive hate-mongering is seeping into the mainstream,” and that a toxic politics threatens not just civility but democracy.
Jun 17, 2016 / John Nichols
‘It’s Like Responding to a Battlefield in a Civilian Community’: Medical Professionals Declare Gun Violence a Crisis ‘It’s Like Responding to a Battlefield in a Civilian Community’: Medical Professionals Declare Gun Violence a Crisis
Doctors have an intimate view of the uptick in mass shootings.
Jun 17, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter