News DeskThe attack on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual—and it appears to have inspired him.
November 29, 2016
Daily CommentIn a letter to Donald Trump last week, Erica Lafferty, whose mother was killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, asked the President-elect to cut ties with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
November 22, 2016
Cultural CommentWhat we need now, a year after the attacks in Paris, are stories of survival, the hard work that doesn’t end.
November 16, 2016
Culture DeskTexas’s law permitting handguns on campus undermines critical debate, which may be exactly what the law’s architects intended.
October 15, 2016
News DeskHow do you make a film about a repeating pattern, where details change but where so much echoes the events that came before?
September 15, 2016
CommentThe phrase “blue lives matter” expresses a fact in our society; “black lives matter” exists as a reminder.
CommentThe House sit-in focussed attention on the issue, but more ambitious measures are needed to fix our real gun problem.
A Reporter at LargeThe business and politics of selling guns.
After OrlandoA crowd gathered at the bars and clubs in Jackson Heights to remember the lives lost in Orlando.
CommentThe Republican candidates still reject gun control as a means to help prevent terrorist attacks.
News DeskOur collective responsibility for mass shootings is that we allow too many people to have too many guns—guns of a kind that no civilian ever needs.
December 4, 2015
News DeskRepublican Presidential candidates have raced to declare that America must defend itself from foreign terrorists. Law-enforcement statistics tell a different story.
December 2, 2015
John CassidyMany people believe they need a weapon to defend themselves—in part, because firearm laws are already so lax.
December 3, 2015
Daily CommentThe attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic points to a new pattern of extremism.
December 1, 2015
News DeskIf the Founders hadn’t wanted guns to be regulated, and thoroughly, they would not have put the phrase “well regulated” in the amendment.
October 2, 2015
Annals of Public SafetyAn increasingly ritualized form of violence is attracting unexpected perpetrators.
Daily CommentMass shootings are not an impossibly hard, or even particularly complex, problem. There’s no doubt or ambiguity about what needs to be done, nor that, if it is done, it will work.
December 19, 2012
Daily CommentThe battle over gun control is not just one of individual votes in Congress, but of a continuing clash of ideas, backed by political power.
December 17, 2012
U. S. ChroniclesAmerica has nearly as many guns as it has people, yet our relationship with guns is more complicated than the data suggest.
