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Cities
In Los Angeles, Transforming Guns Into Art
A community coalition is melting down guns and turning them into statues.
Cities
Slideshow: Violence Prevention Coalition Turns Guns to Art
An inside look at La Fonderie, where a group of youth volunteers and metalworkers are making art out of melted down gunmetal.
Culture
People Are Awesome: Man Becomes Pen Pals With Daughter of Man He Killed in War
Almost 50 years after shooting down a plane in the Indo-Pakistani War, a pilot wrote a letter to his victim's daughter.
News
Mapping the Connection Between Poverty and Rioting
A visualization of London's class inequality helps ask important questions about what sparked that city's riots.
News
"If We Don't Riot, You Don't Listen to Us": The Case for Chaos
In April, 1,000 people turned out for a peaceful march in honor of a man who died during a police raid. Nobody listened to them.
News
Anders Breivik and the War Against Ourselves
Breivik is a sobering reminder that the war we're fighting has no face or home. The war we're fighting is against unthinking, bilious rage.
News
Capital Stupidity: The Death Penalty Costs California $300 Million Per Execution
Not only is the death penalty racist, classist, and ultra-violent, a new study says it's tremendously wasteful, too.
News
Why Prison Rape Jokes Are Really Not Funny
With hundreds of thousands of sexual assaults behind bars annually, prison rape is no laughing matter.
Culture
If 50 Cent Thinks Bullies Are Bad, Maybe He Should Stop Egging Them On
If 50 Cent is penning a young adult novel to raise awareness about bullying, perhaps he should chill with his own violent and homophobic messages.
News
What a Mess: $6.6 Billion in Cash Presumed Lost in Iraq
As America's economy continues to flag, it might infuriate you to know that we're literally losing billions in a far-off desert.
Culture
Kanye Is Wrong: His Murdered Woman Video Is Totally Misogynistic
Kanye West's new video, in which the props are murdered women, is misogynistic, regardless of what the rapper says.
Cities
How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?
In an age where online communities often get more attention than our real-life ones, what's the role of the neighborhood?
Culture
Should Journalists Who Witness Killings Try and Stop Them?
A new killing in South Africa raises the question about when it's right to intervene to try and save a life.
Culture
How Not to Talk When You Talk About Rape
The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally.
Culture
Osama's Daughter Says He Was Arrested Then Executed in Front of Her
As the White House clams up, Osama's family is telling their side of the story.
Culture
A Continually Updated List of How the Administration Says Bin Laden Died
The story of how Osama met his end has changed a lot over the past few days. Here's a rundown of the inconsistencies thus far.
Culture
Since When Are Liberals Cool with Shooting an Unarmed Man in the Face?
It seems as if a lot of people have no problem with a defenseless Osama being shot to death. That's wrong.
Education
Why Teachers Shouldn't Be Expected to Talk About Bin Laden's Death
My fourth-grade son's teacher didn't talk about the killing of Osama bin Laden in class—and that was a good decision.
