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+24 +6Why Would a 16-Year-Old Girl Slaughter Her Uber Driver?
Inside the minds of murderous young women. By Lyz Lenz.
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+40 +14America’s Mass Shooting Problem Is a Domestic Violence Problem
Most gunmen have one thing in common: a history of violence against family members
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+18 +4How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art
A new Picasso exhibition, curated by his granddaughter, celebrates one of the only women in his life he didn't harm for art: his daughter.
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+15 +3War once helped build nations, now it destroys them
Cooperation, mutual dependence, trust – even in killing others – are building blocks of political order, the foundational elements of states.
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+33 +7The Sad, Lonely Men Behind America's Mass Shootings
Is the U.S. finally ready to grapple with its toxic masculinity problem?
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+27 +5A gunman has opened fire near the University of South Carolina
There is said to be an active shooter situation near the University of South Carolina, with one person believed to have been shot. The University of South Carolina Upstate in Spatanburg issued a Twitter alert warning of shots being fired, with four buildings on campus placed on lockdown. That lockdown was later lifted. Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo told the Associated Press that the shooting occurred at an apartment complex next to the school’s campus and one person suffered a gunshot wound to the arm.
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+18 +3Columbine is no longer one of the 10 deadliest shootings in modern US history
In the 18 years since Columbine rocked America to its core, the country has seen so many more mass shootings that the attack isn't even among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.
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+34 +14I didn’t understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped
I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape women. By David Graeber.
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+1 +1Attack on Sikh boy, 14, in US 'rooted in hate': family fears
The family of a 14-year-old Sikh boy beaten by a classmate in a Washington high school fears the attack on their son was racially driven. The victim's father believes that his son was targeted because he is of Indian descent, according to US and Indian media. The attack was video-recorded and initially posted on Snapchat. A grainy video was later posted on Twitter, showing the Kent Ridge High School freshman being punched and knocked down by his classmate.
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+11 +3Avant Museology: Hito Steyerl
A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
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+26 +3White Supremacists Share Bomb-Making Materials in Online Chats
Chat logs made available to ProPublica show talk of mass killings and the recipes that could be used to carry them out.
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+14 +5Here’s What Antifa is Really Trying to Do
Historian Mark Bray explains the politics of the modern anti-fascist movement, as well as its historical origins. By Abdullah Shihipar.
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+12 +2Stop using extreme violence to sell your game
Bones bludgeoned with hammers. A noose wrapped tightly around a struggling woman’s neck. The blade of a knife pressed into a vulnerable stomach. The gruesome imagery Naughty Dog manages to cram into a five-minute trailer for The Last of Us Part 2 is physically uncomfortable to sit through.
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+19 +1Niger attack: New details emerge about deadly ambush on US soldiers
Nearly one month after the deadly ambush in Niger that killed four American soldiers, ABC News has learned new details about how the attack unfolded on October 4, including how a small group of Americans went back into the firefight to locate a vehicle that had become separated from the group.
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+26 +9Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives
News reporters and anchors have repeatedly referred to the recent tragedy in Las Vegas as the “worst mass shooting in U.S. history.” Like all things that are constantly repeated, the proclamation has become fact. By Michael Harriot.
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+17 +4Kara Walker’s Nightmares Are Our Own
Walker’s latest work is disturbing, but the horror it portrays belongs to the American subconscious.
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+7 +1The Nobel Peace Prize 2017
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.
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+21 +3Necessary Violence
This is what I remember: It is late June or early July of 1992. I am a new doctor in the emergency department at San Francisco General Hospital, standing in a chaos of crash carts and swarming, shouting men and women in green scrubs. The trauma room is rectangular, windowless, and whitewashed in bright, artificial light. Life support equipment occupies one long wall and chrome cabinets line another.
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+14 +4It Doesn’t Matter Why Stephen Craig Paddock Did It
The United States has decided it isn’t going to address out-of-control gun violence, and no insight about an individual shooter will change that. By Jesse Singal.
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+27 +8Leaked photos show guns littered around Las Vegas shooter's hotel room
Several guns can be seen lying around the room of the hotel.
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