School Shootings Are More Than Just an American Issue

Over the past two decades, America has seen more than two dozen deadly school shootings. This year, gun violence in schools has spread to Russia.

Finley Muratova

Congressional Races Are Our Best Shot at Gun Control

Even in California, it’s too easy to turn a gun purchased legally into an assault weapon.

Laila Lalami

Gun-Control Activists Should Also Take on America’s Drone Wars

Through its endless wars, Washington has been the true school shooter on this planet, terrorizing the global classroom with a remarkable lack of consequences. 

Allegra Harpootlian

I’m an 18-Year-Old Gun-Reform Activist and School-Shooting Survivor—Here’s Why I Still Have Hope

We’re not doing this because we want to. We’re doing it because we have to.

Mollie Davis

Voters in Washington State Are Poised to Pass Some of the Country’s Toughest Gun-Safety Laws

Organizers hope that Initiative 1639 will juice turnout in the midterms and show that gun-violence prevention is a winner at the ballot box.

Joshua Holland

Advice to College Graduates in the Age of Trump

The terror beyond the school gates awaits you.

Tom Engelhardt

Comix Nation

Matt Bors

How to Be a Pacifist in a Gun-Loving Country

True security lies not in arming ourselves against other people, but in connecting with them.

Frida Berrigan

Why the Right Mocks the Parkland Survivors

The attacks on the Florida teens are designed to humiliate, threaten, and dehumanize.

Patricia J. Williams

How the #NeverAgain Movement Is Disrupting Gun Politics

The gun-control movement has never been able to talk about race—until now.

George Zornick