Orlando Nightclub Shootings

One Year On, 4 Things You Can Do To Honor The Victims Of The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
How can we mark the anniversary of the shooting at Pulse nightclub? asks Mary E. Cronin. We can refuse to be made invisible.

It's Time To Stand Up: We All Have A Role To Play In Dismantling Oppression
I hope the violence of the past week will become a turning point that tips us toward long-needed reform, and away from brutality and hate.

Your Beliefs About Terrorism And Islam Are A Hot Mess Of Myth And Illogic
MIT's international security expert Jim Walsh says Americans' views on terrorism are a plate of scrambled eggs consisting mostly of fear and fiction. Herein, a corrective.

It Was In Bars Like Pulse That We Learned To Love All Those In Our LGBT Alphabet
Kari Hong: The Pulse nightclub victims died in a space that was more sacred than what the word nightclub conveys.

Our National Venn Diagram: Pushing Back On America's Polarization
Joanna Weiss proposes a bipartisan shortlist of things we should be able to agree on, post-Orlando.
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Poem: The Blood-Spangled Banner
Erika Fine responds, in verse, to the the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

In A Dogma Eat Dogma World, A Defense Of Political Correctness
Donald Trump argues that political correctness is coddling terrorism. Julie Wittes Schlack wants to know: Who is really putting dogma ahead of common sense?

From A Catholic To A Muslim: Let’s Shed Our Shared, Shameful Tradition Of Homophobia
Non-violent prejudice is still prejudice, and there’s always the threat that it can tip the unhinged into atrocities like we saw in Orlando.

The Last Season Of America? Horror, Hope And Orlando
Orlando is America. It's time to write ourselves a new script.

How Not To Respond To Tragedy: Donald Trump's Callous Reply To Orlando
Following the shootings, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee went on a self-congratulatory rant on Twitter. “I called it,” he wrote.

Wake Up, America. We Allowed Orlando To Happen
These crimes take place because the U.S. continues to define liberty as a virtually unconditional right to acquire the tools of mass murder.