The Rochester City School District’s biggest problem isn’t who controls it. It’s the concentrated poverty so many of its children live in.
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Las Vegas, guns, and the evil of inaction
We knew what we needed to do when we saw the pictures of the children murdered in Newtown. And nothing happened.
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Mass shootings and homicides: guns cause these deaths
While mass shootings are horrible, focusing on them can be a distraction. They represent a tiny fraction of our gun violence.
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The gun carnage grows. How much do we care?
Is there anything left to be said about guns and violence? Charles Blow got it right in the Times following the terror in the Washington Navy Yard last week. “Another mass shooting,” Blow wrote. “Another round of shock, sadness, and outrage. Another pitched discussion about rights and responsibilities, mental illness and background checks. And then […]
