This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the summer of 1967, more than 150 cities erupted into violence, fueled by pent-up resentments in the cities’ black communities over police brutality and other forms of racial injustice.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The number of hate groups operating in the United States grew by four percent in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based monitoring group. The SPLC…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the recent revelations about sexual assault in Hollywood and other industries, the spotlight was on the nation’s colleges and universities: Over the past several years, those institutions have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, isn’t fading quietly from the headlines like so many acts of gun violence before it. Nearly two weeks after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,…
A new Pew Research Center survey attempts to better understand the complex relationship Americans have with guns and how that relationship intersects with their policy views. The survey finds that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. War has consumed Afghanistan for the past 17 years, so it’s unsurprising that the country ranks 152 out of 153 on the Women, Peace, and Security Index. The Index reports that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mass shootings have taken place consistently throughout American history, in every region of the country. Over the last 30 years, however, assault weapons and firearms equipped with large- capacity ammunition…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Center for International Security and Cooperation program on Biosecurity and Global Health What is it? The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford is a university-based center that does policy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After years of focusing efforts on private prisons, mandatory sentences and money bail, people trying to change the criminal justice system have identified another target: prosecutors. In an influential book last year,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through a generation of school shootings and thousands of other gun-enabled murders, the National Rifle Association has held the fort against gun safety legislation. Now the NRA edifice is finally…
In the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead, the students have inspired many with their outspoken messages demanding gun…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, may look like any other American high school from the outside. But former students who spent their teenage years in its hallways…