Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 17, 2012
A look at the day's political happenings, including an update on Hillary Clinton's health scare, why a pizza chain founder is suing the Obama administration and what Stephen Colbert is doing with the rest of his super PAC money. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 17, 2012
"Saturday Night Live" deviated from its traditional comedic cold open to pay tribute to the children and adults who lost their lives in Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 17, 2012
Some Democrats have publicly advocated for tighter gun control laws in the aftermath of Friday’s shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and eight adults dead. But according to Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, the way to prevent such massacres from happening is to have more Americans carry firearms. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Bill Blum / TruthdigDec 16, 2012
As a result of a grotesque confluence of cultural iconography celebrating the virtues of an armed citizenry, political cowardice in the face of pro-gun lobbies like the NRA, and a judiciary that has redefined the meaning of the Second Amendment, we have become a nation bereft of effective gun control, reduced to waiting for the next firearm fueled massacre.The question arises with renewed urgency: When and how will the madness stop? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigDec 16, 2012
Why do U.S. cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing them from happening again through banning semiautomatic weapons? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Marian Wright EdelmanDec 16, 2012
Once again we are faced with unspeakable horror from gun violence and once again we are reminded that there is no safe harbor for our children. How young do the victims have to be and how many children need to die before we stop the proliferation of guns in our nation and the killing of innocents? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 15, 2012
How does one explain the massacre of 20 children at a school in Connecticut? Madness? A society that values gun rights ahead of human life? No. The answer, according to former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, is the secularization of schools. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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