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On Tuesday, after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers in a Texas elementary school, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor and implored his colleagues to stop mass shootings. “I’m here on this floor to beg,” said Murphy, pressing his palms together in prayerful supplication. “To literally get down on my hands […]

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Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system.

The Republican flip-flop on white domestic terrorists should have political consequences by Charlie Sykes

The GOP's selective outrage did not go unnoticed, even among some Trump supporters.

Plus #MeToo at MIT.

It’s ‘never admit fault.’

The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined.

Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the Republican mainstream.

The latest casualty in America’s culture war? The English language.

Experts say that the amount of attention on this trial is offering abusers a look at a whole new way of potentially exerting power over a survivor.

Buffalo Proves That Murder Is Downstream From Misinformation by David French

Actions are tied to ideas, and if ideas are toxic, then actions can kill.

Payton Gendron’s violence was not an isolated incident but one thread in a web of anti-Black hatred.