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Mass Shootings
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We Were Never Meant to Survive: A Response to the Attack in Charleston
This country has never valued Black people. We cannot consider ourselves safe anywhere.
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The Mass Shooting in Mexico
The murder and disappearance of students from Ayotzinapa is raising questions once again about the complicity of law enforcement and public officials in Mexico's drug wars.
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Guns, Denial and Insanity
Gun violence is surely senseless, but so is our response to it.
Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health
After mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually …
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US is Faced With a Feverish Populism of Anger and Hatred
In an excerpt from his book
The Rage of the Angry White Male Continues Its Battle Against Equality
"Men can be dragged kicking and screaming into that inevitable future, or we can accept it and ask what it means for us," says Michael Kimmel, author of "Angry …
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The Perils of Patriarchy for Men as well as Women: Another Mass Shooting, another Reason to Begin Discussing Violence and Gender
Mass killings lay bare the way in which violent masculine norms harm all members of society.
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Mass Killings: Why American Men Are “Going Postal“
What could make US white males so angry?
Behind the NRA’s Money: Gun Lobby Deepens Financial Ties to $12 Billion Firearms Industry
New investigation: NRA relies on support of $12-billion a year from firearms and ammunition manufacturers and sellers.
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Obama Unveils Plan to Curb Gun Violence, Asks Congress to Ban Assault Weapons
Plan includes 23 executive orders and closing background check loopholes.