Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 11:30 PM
Despite the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in October, 2017 was not a momentous year for federal gun reform laws––in fact, none passed––but it was a pretty good...
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Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 10:53 AM
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is well known as an issue for returning soldiers. But it is far more pervasive in US inner cities.
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Saturday, December 09, 2017 at 11:27 AM
Researchers from Stanford and Duke University examined recent studies on the causes of gun violence in the United States in an effort to find consensus in a body of research...
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Sunday, December 03, 2017 at 6:35 PM
Eight students stood in a row on the stage in Normandy High School’s theater. The teens stared at the imaginary audience and asked a question: “What’s going on?” If you...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 8:38 PM
Americans often think of themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation, and in many ways they do. They belong to a tolerant, multicultural society that has led the world toward...
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Friday, November 24, 2017 at 10:15 PM
On a rainy morning in fall 2015, I received a devastating phone call. My grandpa, my favorite curmudgeon to call for advice on car trouble and home projects, or just...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 8:16 AM
When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and...
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Monday, November 13, 2017 at 10:53 PM
Sunday’s mass shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, underscores the unique harm that mass shootings, and firearms in general, pose to America’s children. Children make up about...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 9:05 PM
It was fall in Tokyo, and Saki Arai needed a gun. Saki manages the Bistro Hibino and wanted to hunt wild game for her farm-to-table restaurant. If Saki lived in, say,...
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Monday, November 06, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Last month, our nation was whipsawed by mass murder in Las Vegas and mass predations in Hollywood. The proximity of the Harvey Weinstein revelations to the Vegas massacre was certainly...
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