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Violence in Charlottesville

By Mark Edmundson | 08/28/2017 |

What I saw firsthand, and what it meant

By Roy Scranton | 06/05/2017 |

What relation does art bear to suffering?

By Robert Wilson | 02/29/2016 |

It’s time for police officers to start demanding gun laws that could end up saving their own lives

By Tom Zoellner | 09/07/2015 |

Popular anxiety about rising crime has buoyed the TV show “Crime Watch”

Having grown up amid the horrors of Burundi’s civil war, a young man is bewildered by the American lust for warlike video games

By Emily Bernard | 08/25/2011

When I was stabbed 17 years ago in a New Haven coffee shop, the wounds did not only come from the knife

By Nancy Honicker | 03/01/2006

Paris and its banlieues in November 2005