The overt racism and anti-Semitism written in the Buffalo shooter’s 180-page “manifesto” has been rightly denounced by civilized people. The usual questions are being asked. These include […]
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I am part of the ‘Great Replacement.’ It’s not what believers say it is
by Gustavo Arellano Twenty-three years ago on a hot August evening, I stood before the Anaheim Union High School District board of trustees. They were about to […]
Poor white people
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for […]
How NRA used Columbine to thwart gun control
Back in 2000, actor Charlton Heston helped rally the conservative base behind the embattled National Rifle Association with a convention speech asserting that then-Democratic presidential candidate Al […]
Request to shut public out of Parkland shooting hearings denied
Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer made the right decision — the only decision — on Tuesday, when she ruled that court hearings in the case of […]
A lesson, a legacy in the Capital Gazette tragedy
With the finding last Thursday by an Annapolis jury that the Capital Gazette gunman was indeed criminally responsible for the brutal, calculated murders three years ago of […]
No end in sight to the cycle of gun violence in the U.S.
by Dan Rodricks One Saturday night in May 1993, on 36th Street in the heart of Hampden, two young guys — one with a ponytail, the other […]
Do not become numb to the horror
In the last month alone, there have been five mass murders — shooting events where four or more people end up dead, excluding the killer. March 16 […]
An ordinary man battles dueling pandemics
by Martin Schram The sunshine bathing his Rose Garden is so bright that Joe Biden can’t help but squint as he looks out and starts saying hello […]
The victims of this war don’t get a wall
“This is a violent civilization — if civilization’s where I am.” — Gil Scott-Heron, “Gun” Alexis Knutson doesn’t want to see her friend reduced. That friend, she […]
