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Even Florida’s red flag law isn’t getting traction among Republicans.
TSA PreCheck uses enhanced background checks to make everyone safer.
Firearm injuries undermine mental, physical, and financial health, even for people who’ve never encountered a bullet.
The Constitution protects gun ownership — but doesn’t prevent state regulations.
Democrats are pushing through state gun control reforms after a streak of mass shootings.
Can summer jobs and mental health care save lives?
The policy ideas are aplenty, but it’s up to lawmakers to act.
Politicians diverge from voters when it comes to preventing gun deaths.
Teachers don’t support these proposals either.
Former President Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were among those dismissing calls for tougher gun laws.
Law enforcement noted they made the “wrong decision” when they didn’t confront the gunman sooner.
Scholars of gun politics have found a striking — and disturbing — pattern.
Lawmakers are weighing red flag laws and background checks in the search for a compromise.
A gun control expert on mass shootings, the progress gun control advocates have made, and why the NRA no longer defines gun culture in the US.
US public policy is a disaster on guns — and so much more.
The US has lots of gun violence. It also has lots of guns.
If you can’t ban handguns, you’re just spinning your wheels.
Uvalde joins Parkland, Sandy Hook, and America’s long list of horrific massacres in schools.
The reality of Uvalde is horrific. That doesn’t mean we should give up hope.
It was one of the world’s largest mandatory gun buybacks — and it was a smashing success.
How a gun rights myth paved the way for nightmares like Uvalde.
Or, how the NRA won.
The Court effectively overruled two of its previous decisions, and it is likely an innocent man will die as a result.
Democrats are facing a reckoning on the local level — and it’s among themselves.
And So I Stayed challenges the dominant narratives about abuse.
Doe v. Mckesson is a simply astonishing attack on the First Amendment.
The majority of people sitting in local jails haven’t been convicted of a crime.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing underscored these divides.
He should, too.
Who is restorative justice restoring?
Republicans turned the hearing into a blizzard of misleading attacks, many of which seem designed to appeal to QAnon supporters.
Hawley’s going to a place that decent people have the good sense not to go.
A guaranteed income program designed by and for Black women.
At the worst possible time.
A Q&A with a pro-gun journalist about guns and tribalism, the blind spots on both sides, and where the debate might go from here.
What’s the remedy if a federal official violates your constitutional rights? The answer may soon be nothing.
The three white defendants were already convicted in the killing of the unarmed Black jogger.
The Court’s new death penalty order is almost too cruel to be believed.
Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.
There are worse things than a hypocritical Court.