Tasbeeh Herwees / TruthdigApr 17, 2013
The first tweet I saw when I checked my Twitter account Monday afternoon was a one-line plea: "Please don’t let it be a 'Muslim.'" Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Tracy Bloom / TruthdigApr 17, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including the release of a post-9/11 torture report that lays the blame squarely at the feet of the nation's highest officeholders and the unveiling of a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigApr 17, 2013
What makes a person run toward an explosion? Carlos Arredondo, who cast aside his own safety to help rescue victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, is no ordinary man. Chris Hedges wrote this about Arredondo in 2010. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Bill Blum / TruthdigApr 16, 2013
In the wake of Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombings, should we urge the Senate to proceed with the gun control debate as scheduled? Or should we condemn both chambers of Congress and the president for doing too little, too late to deal with the problem of mass violence and what some have termed the nation’s culture of death?The Boston Marathon blasts took the lives of three people. They also threaten to take another casualty, postponing, if not entirely derailing, the Senate debate on gun control. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 16, 2013
Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to figure out who carried out the Boston Marathon blasts. So far there have been no arrests, no credible claims of responsibility and little information from authorities about who might have planted the explosive devices. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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