Shootings
Dispatch
The Aftermath of the Ralph Yarl Shooting
Kansas City’s tight-knit community of Liberian immigrants finds itself at the center of an American story of racist violence.
Dispatch
Two Mothers Confront the Unimaginable in Uvalde
Years of frustration with the local police and school officials have boiled into rage.
Our Columnists
How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World
Australia, Britain, Canada, and other countries have enacted reforms that turned mass shootings into rare, aberrational events rather than everyday occurrences.
Comment
A Consequential Gun Ruling After the Buffalo Massacre
The racist killings showed the horror of firearms; the Supreme Court may be about to make the problem worse.
Our Local Correspondents
A Subway Shooting That New York City Overlooked
A murder at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station in Queens has exposed many of the problems facing the city’s transit system.
Daily Comment
The Subway in Our Collective Imagination, Before and After the Brooklyn Shooting
New York’s transit system is exceptional in its ability to reflect the crises and moods of the city.
Underground
A Subway Attack Bursts an Underground Bubble
The Sunset Park shooting has forced riders to adjust their inner subway armor, as a rise in untreated mental illness changes the nature of the subway compact.
As Told To
“The Longest Thirty Seconds of My Absolute Life”: A Survivor’s Account of the Brooklyn Subway Shooting
Kenneth Foote-Smith, recounting the agony, courage, and paralysis on the N train, said, “It just screams negligence.”
Daily Comment
The Sandy Hook Settlement with Remington and the Road Ahead on Gun Violence
Gun manufacturers had considered themselves all but immune, thanks to a 2005 law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
News Desk
The Outsized Meaning of the Rittenhouse Verdict
A Wisconsin self-defense law made it difficult for the jury to convict—an outcome that was celebrated by the Republican Party’s violent fringe.
The Political Scene Podcast
Politics and Justice at the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
A Wisconsin jury considers “the most divisive case in the country.”
Annals of Justice
When a Witness Recants
At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.
Flash Fiction
Barbara, Detroit, 1966
“How, when she was watching him so closely, granted through dark glasses, did she miss the fact that he was still waving that gun around?”
A Reporter at Large
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante
After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.
News Desk
Mario González Still Wants to Know Why the Police Held Him After the Atlanta Shooting
González was on a date with his wife, Delaina Ashley Yaun, when she was killed. But, for hours, no one told him what had happened to her.
Daily Comment
The Atlanta Shooting and the Dehumanizing of Asian Women
To live through this period as an Asian-American is to feel trapped in an American tragedy while being denied the legitimacy of being an American.
Letter from Malibu
A Shooter in the Hills
Who was behind the mysterious attacks in the California wilderness?
Dispatch
The Streets of Kenosha and the National Stage
After the violence came mourning, defiance, and distortion.
Daily Comment
We Are Living in the Age of the Black-Panic Defense
The case of Ahmaud Arbery seems to point to racial presumptions implicit in how we interpret the concept of self-defense.
A Critic at Large
Kent State and the War That Never Ended
The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?