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This Week in Canada: The Tragedy of Tumbler Ridge
We still don’t know what turned an 18-year-old into a killer; U.S. lawmakers take Canada’s side on tariffs; remembering the ‘Shawinigan Handshake’; and…
Rupa Subramanya
Canada and the U.S. Now Have Something Horrific in Common
The rampage in British Columbia destroyed the comfort long clung to by Canadians that school shootings are America’s problem.
Rupa Subramanya
Minneapolis Gun Owners Are Divided over Alex Pretti
Support for the Second Amendment used to fall along predictable party lines. Then border patrol agents shot and killed a man carrying a pistol.
Olivia Reingold and Austyn Jeffs
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Would America Be Safer Without the Second Amendment?
Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch face off in our latest live debate on guns in Chicago.
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Our Next Debate: Would America Be Safer Without the Second Amendment?
Get your tickets now for our next live debate on November 5 in Chicago, featuring Alan Dershowitz, Dana Loesch, and Bari Weiss.
Isaac Grafstein
After an Attack on an ICE Facility, Its Boss Hopes to Turn Down the Temperature
The agency’s acting director, Todd Lyons, says that hostility from activists and elected officials is encouraging violence against immigration agents.
Evan Gardner
Joe Nocera: Stop Worshipping Guns
Kirk was right. We will never eliminate gun deaths. But he was also right that we can dramatically reduce gun violence.
Joe Nocera
Things Worth Remembering: ‘All You Have to Do Is Move Your Little Finger’
More than 30 years after Stephen Sondheim wrote about the terrible simplicity of pulling a trigger, the U.S. continues to live out his refrain.
Joe Nocera
The Shooting at Annunciation School—and Our Troubled Times
What comfort can there be after so many tragic, targeted killings, which are occurring with alarming frequency?
Dave Kansas
She Was Murdered in Midtown Manhattan. The Internet Celebrated It.
Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was a symbol of everything they hate.
Maya Sulkin
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