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  • Police tape hangs from a barricade at the corner of South and 3rd streets in Philadelphia on June 5, 2022, the day after three people were killed and 11 others wounded by gunfire all within a few blocks
    Police tape hangs from a barricade at the corner of South and 3rd streets in Philadelphia on June 5, 2022, the day after three people were killed and 11 others wounded by gunfire all within a few blocks
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    The Anti-Gun Violence Hustle

    Philadelphia and other cities suffering from surging gun deaths are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into solutions that don’t work

    bySean Cooper
  • Donald Trump supporters cheer on the Republican presidential candidate before a campaign rally in Concord, North Carolina, March 7, 2016.
    Donald Trump supporters cheer on the Republican presidential candidate before a campaign rally in Concord, North Carolina, March 7, 2016.
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    Trump Rallies, Where Protesters are Shoved, Sucker-Punched, and Called Racial Slurs

    ‘That persistent fringe variety of American monster, though, has never before been attached to and attracted to a front-running major party presidential campaign they way they are to Donald Trump’

    byJonathan Zalman
  • (Joel Bombardier/Flickr)
    (Joel Bombardier/Flickr)
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    Killer

    Cain and Abel offer an important lesson, says a UCLA professor in the new book Bloodlust: It’s familiarity, not otherness, that breeds violence.

    byLong Story Short
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    Love and Death

    Long before the Supreme Court deemed violent video games free speech, the 1940s cultural critic Gershon Legman noted Americans’ paradoxical views on sex and violence

    byJosh Lambert
  • David Roberts, The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, oil on canvas, 1850.(Wikimedia Commons)
    David Roberts, The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, oil on canvas, 1850.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    Evil Inclination

    In Jerusalem, Jerusalem, James Carroll uses the city as a metaphor for the human tendency to combine religion with violence

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Outside the Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, where Gabrielle Giffords and at least nine others were shot today.(Eric Thayer/Reuters)
    Outside the Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, where Gabrielle Giffords and at least nine others were shot today.(Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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    Targeted

    The gunman arrested in connection with the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of at least five others was clearly delusional, but was he influenced by the toxic rhetoric coursing through the country today?

    byMichelle Goldberg
  • (Sarah Lazarovic)
    (Sarah Lazarovic)
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    Childish Things

    My son’s pyromaniacal tendencies, Bibi, and bedtime stories that go awry

    byEtgar Keret
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