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  • Letters From an American
    Will There Be a Real Discussion on Gun Control?
    March 24, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The unfettered right to own and carry weapons has come to symbolize the Republican Party’s ideology of individual liberty. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on gun rights despite the mass shootings occurring with a greater frequency.

  • Letters From an American
    What Happens When Our President Declares He Needs to Dominate the Battle Space?
    June 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Is Our Nation a Battleground Where There Will Be Winners and Losers?
  • Democracy & Government
    Donald Trump and the Uses of Insinuation
    August 10, 2016
    | Todd Gitlin
    A note on gobbledygook.
  • Money & Politics
    How Gunmakers Are Quietly Getting Richer Off Taxpayers
    January 29, 2016
    | Josh Harkinson
    Political bluster flowed after Sandy Hook — and so did millions of dollars in subsidies.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
    December 4, 2015
    | Dorothy Samuels
    How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
  • The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
    December 4, 2015
    | Dorothy Samuels
    How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
  • History
    The Rise of the NRA
    June 12, 2014
    | Michael Waldman
    How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?
  • The NRA Has America Living Under the Gun
    July 21, 2012
    | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
    The National Rifle Association has turned the Second Amendment of the Constitution into a "cruel and deadly hoax."
  • Video Essay: Living Under the Gun
    July 20, 2012 | Moyers & Company
    In this essay, posted the day after the Colorado theater shooting a year ago, Bill talks about the price we pay for our pro-gun culture.


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