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Democracy

Analyzing the right’s Second Amendment shell game after the tragic Covenant school shooting

April 3, 2023 • by Claire Potter

How do you square support for gun ownership, virtually without restriction, with this terrible, unjust tragedy?...

Corporations

Beyond “The Great Resignation”

November 14, 2022 • by Benjamin P. Davis

In the United States, we live in a country where someone who works for a law firm that services Big Oil is by and large considered intelligent and successful, maybe even ethical due to their pro bono representation, no matter that such a firm, for instance, did not represent foreclosure ...

Prisons and Police

Why School Security Makes Students Less Safe

Much has been said about police failures in Uvalde. But that failure occurred before they even arrived

July 6, 2022 • by Zeynep Gönen

What proposals to “harden the schools” succeed at is building out a police and penal state, one that has been growing exponentially since the 1970s, into social institutions where it targets poor and racialized populations....

Why School Security Makes Students Less Safe

Politics

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

The culture war over guns must end for school shootings to end

December 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

You know the United States is edging back to a post-Covid normal when a distraught kid takes his father’s 9 mm Sig Sauer, purchased on Black Friday, to his Michigan high school and opens fire. It is the most recent of 53 school shootings this year that have killed 17 people and wounded ...

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

Feature

On Incels

It’s a man’s, man’s problem

June 11, 2018 • by Haylee Millikan

Before Alek Minassian murdered ten people -- mostly women -- in Toronto by driving a van down a crowded street, he made a Facebook post that read “The Incel Rebellion Has Already Begun!” Once esoteric, this violently misogynistic ideology has now made its way to the mainstream. Incels, short for the “involuntarily celibate,” ...