Sometimes, real life truly is much stranger than fiction. This is especially the case wherever children and safety issues come together. One of these stories really happened. The other two were derived from the voices inside our head. Can you … Continue reading →
Here we are yet again: Another mass shooting, another group of kids mowed down in their classroom, another set of grieving parents suddenly forced to refer to their children in the past tense. A new batch of photographs running across … Continue reading →
In the book ‘Guns for Protection?,’ I write about the folly of Stand Your Ground laws, which allow people to go free from murder after shooting someone dead, so long as they claim to have felt threatened by the other … Continue reading →
There’s little about society that the coronavirus has left untouched. This pandemic has had consequences extending far beyond its medical toll: economic hardship, increases in inequality, and a general rise in fear and paranoia, as if America needed any more … Continue reading →
