A hardening diplomatic impasse brings even more urgency to the violent crisis.
Violence
A 21-year-old in Jonesboro, Arkansas is dead after he was mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car.
Violence saturates our culture both domestically and in our approach to foreign policy.
Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.