Three Ways Sensible Gun Control Could Have Prevented Aurora Shootings Three Ways Sensible Gun Control Could Have Prevented Aurora Shootings
Details emerging this week in court about July’s mass shooting show multiple ways the tragedy could have been averted.
Jan 9, 2013 / George Zornick
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Dangerous Rush to Legislate on Surveillance and Mental Health? Dean Spade [VIDEO] Dangerous Rush to Legislate on Surveillance and Mental Health? Dean Spade [VIDEO]
Involuntary mental health care and police profiling will not make the United States safer.
Dec 28, 2012 / Laura Flanders
After Newtown, Beware Fear-Driven Policymaking After Newtown, Beware Fear-Driven Policymaking
In crafting laws after the horrifying killings in Connecticut, it’s crucial that we recognize our own collective trauma before we rush to act.
Dec 19, 2012 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
Dave Zirin: ‘I Applaud Bob Costas’ Dave Zirin: ‘I Applaud Bob Costas’
Mainstream media’s silence on gun control and mental health is the true outrage in the wake of Jovan Belcher's tragic murder-suicide.
Dec 5, 2012 / Press Room
The Psychological Toll of Voter Suppression The Psychological Toll of Voter Suppression
Despite a series of voting rights victories, ballot box bullies will still try to dissuade voters.
Oct 16, 2012 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Guns and Mental Illness: Tragedies in Waiting Guns and Mental Illness: Tragedies in Waiting
There is a certain kind of madness in peddling guns to Americans while dismantling our mental health system.
Aug 8, 2012 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil
Twenty-two “authors” of a fradulent article ghost-written by Glaxo won't feel the heat.
Aug 7, 2012 / Jon Wiener
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Anne Rophie’s Art and Madness, Millicent Monk’s Songs of Three Islands, Maisie Houghton’s Pitch Uncertain.
Dec 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elias Altman
20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide 20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide
A new study says colleges are unprepared to educate the more than one million veterans expected to enter institutions of higher learning in the next decade.
Aug 9, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe
British Medical Group Suggests Women Seeking Abortion Be Told—Gasp!—the Truth British Medical Group Suggests Women Seeking Abortion Be Told—Gasp!—the Truth
Under the guidelines, patients would be told that women generally don’t suffer any psychological harm as a result of having an abortion.
Mar 9, 2011 / Sharon Lerner