Exploring gun issues thoughtfully is not as easy as replaying footage of people screaming and running. But it’s more likely to move us forward.
Daniel Ellsberg Warns of Nuclear Dangers in the Era of Trump
I was particularly pleased to read Ellsberg’s upcoming The Doomsday Machine, already hailed in blurbs by everyone from Edward Snowden to Arundhati Roy.
John Young: The NRA’s prostitution ring
That “NRA supports (fill in the blank)” is Page 1 fodder may be the greatest indictment of our political system, next to Donald Trump’s ascendancy.
Chris Hedges: Faces of Pain, Faces of Hope
The bottomless narcissism and hunger of consumer culture cause our darkest and most depraved pathologies.
Memo to Tillerson about the Moron
Robert Reich is suggesting a remedy for the Donald Trump problem which is becoming an existential problem for the United States of America.
Las Vegas Massacre Dispels the Myth of Who’s Most Violent in This Country
While young and non-White people are perceived as more dangerous, middle-aged White people have the highest rates of gun ownership and commit the most violence.
Two Charts on the Gun Crisis: One Hopeful, One Hopeless
Charts debunk the standard right-wing talking point that Chicago proves that gun control doesn’t work but it’s an uphill battle.
Text messages reveal ‘pro-life’ GOP Congressman urged mistress to have abortion
Rep. Tim Murphy (PA-18), one the most anti-choice Republicans of them all, had an extramarital affair and apparently urged his mistress to get an abortion.
If You Tell Me You Are Supporting Trump, I Already Know Seven Things About You
It is important that the Trump support begin some introspection that allows them to ask why Donald Trump is the type of person they support.
Sandy Hook mom goes off: ‘We value guns, flags & fake acts of patriotism over people, pain’
Nelba Márquez-Greene, the mother of a Sandy Hook victim went on a necessary twitter rant where she excoriated politicians for gun control failures.