We Need to Broaden Our Conversation About Guns
Looking at gun manufacturing rather than just gun ownership can help break down our status quo red-blue divide.
Mass Shootings, Economic Inequality, and a Racist President
Three mass shootings in one week, homelessness abound, and a liar who hurls racist rhetoric from the White House stoop. America needs a course correction.
Is Your Bank Loaded? A New Report Has the Answer
A coalition of activists is challenging the financial industry’s ties to the gun industry, its lobbyists, and the lawmakers that support it most.
Parkland Students Join Their Generation Z Peers to Change the Country
“Our voices are getting louder. Our political power is expanding.”
The House Sit-In Would’ve Been More Powerful if It Rejected ‘No Fly, No Buy’
House Democrats are legitimizing error-prone, Islamophobic terrorist “watch lists” as the basis for gun control. That won’t make anyone safer.
Why I’m Ready to Get Arrested with Restaurant Workers
Groups like ROC and the hundreds of others that are leading the Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening mobilizations are working to build the power that can counter corporate lobby groups. Everyone who cares about the state of our democracy should join them.
Five Ways the Arms Trade Treaty Advances Arms Control
For the first time in history, the $70-billion global arms trade will be regulated by international law.
An Agreement on Arms — With No Teeth
While the Arms Trade Treaty doesn’t do anything to affect American gun owners, it’s so weak that it doesn’t seem to affect anybody at all.
Violence Defines American Culture
When James Holmes mowed down twelve people and wounded almost sixty at a movie theater in Colorado, aggression penetrated my pores, inundated my brain and covered the cells of my heart.
What I’m Giving Up in 2012
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
Don’t Tread on My Guns
More than 30,000 Americans die from gunshots each a year, but gun control efforts are sinking.
Second Amendment Solutions
She’s loving the Constitution to death.
Gun Crazy
The NRA and the Pentagon are both addicted to guns, and they’re both on a slippery slope.