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Mark Follman

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The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence

My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar...

30.01.2026 8

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No, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings

As US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a lot of attention for promoting pseudoscience and disproven theories, especially on vaccines....

23.01.2026 20

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RFK Jr. Blames Pills—Not Guns—for School Shootings

As secretary of Health and Human Services in the second Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed an array of pseudo-science and...

03.12.2025 4

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Maine Voters Approve New Law to Prevent Suicides and Mass Shootings

AR-15-style rifles displayed under an American flag at the Kittery Trading Post, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, Maine AP/Charles Krupa Though it was...

06.11.2025 4

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The Key Missing Piece to the Megahit “Adolescence”

In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four...

14.09.2025 8

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Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

Everything is bigger in Texas—except, apparently, memory of devastating mass shootings. In late June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a...

02.07.2025 7

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As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down a Top Prevention Program

Since March, the Trump administration has dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and...

26.06.2025 9

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Trump Prepares to Wipe Out Years of Progress on Gun Violence

By the time Joe Biden became president in January 2021, guns were the top killer of children and teens in America, overtaking car crashes and cancer...

14.02.2025 7

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“Incredibly Damaging”: the Fallout From Trump’s January 6 Pardons

In the four years since Donald Trump set off an insurrection at the US Capitol, the Department of Justice and the FBI conducted one of the largest...

24.01.2025 6

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The Looming Danger of Trump’s January 6 Pardons

Trump supporters clash with police at the US Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021 Mother Jones illustration; Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Four years ago, after...

18.12.2024 2

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