On Sunday, November 20, five people were killed and more than 20 injured in a shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the club hosted a drag show and planned a drag brunch the following morning to honor Transgender Day of Remembrance....
gun violence
NRA Convention Went on ‘As Planned’ after Uvalde Shooting
The National Rifle Association held its annual conference in Houston on Friday, just three days after and 300 miles away from the May 24 mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Former President Donald Trump spoke at...
Breaking the ‘Shock and Familiarity’ of Mass Shootings
On May 24, a shooter in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults, just 10 days after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people and injured three others.
Journalists’ ‘Neutrality Dogma’ Hides Republican Radicalization
Clear-eyed coverage of the Republican party’s radicalization “never lasts,” according to Thomas Zimmer. Journalists instead publish uncritical coverage of extreme GOP perspectives, to serve an imagined ideal of “balance.”