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America Was Founded On Violence & Racism. Of Course, Trump Is Its Next President

Trigger warning: This article contains references to child sexual abuse. As Donald J. Trump prepares to assume the presidency once again, we find ourselves confronting the dark undercurrents of our country’s foundations. The president-elect and several of his cabinet nominees have been accused of various forms of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to assault. This […]

World News

Guatemalan forces arrive to tackle gang violence

A contingent of 150 Guatemalan soldiers has arrived in Haiti, tasked with helping to restore order amid the chaos wrought by armed gangs. A first group of 75 soldiers arrived on Friday and another 75 on Saturday, all drafted from the military police, according to Guatemala’s government. A state of emergency has been in place […]

Politics

Gun violence fell in 2024. Here’s how.

If you follow the news about gun violence in America, you know that there’s a lot to be pessimistic about. Guns were already a major public health concern when the pandemic hit and the murder rate skyrocketed. The surge in homicide in 2020 and 2021, research has shown, was best understood as a surge in […]

World News

The bomb violence killing and maiming children

Ronny Sen for the BBC Puchu was nine when he struck what he thought was a ball, causing a deadly explosion Over the last three decades, at least 565 children in the Indian state of West Bengal have been injured or killed by home-made bombs, a BBC Eye investigation has found. So what are these […]

Science

4,000-year-old bones reveal ‘unprecedented’ violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain

More than 4,000 years ago, nearly 40 people died extremely violent deaths in what is now England, with a modern analysis of their bones revealing scalping, tongue removal, decapitation, defleshing, evisceration and cannibalism. “It paints a considerably darker picture of the period than many would have expected,” Rick Schultingan archaeologist at the University of Oxford, […]