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One thing most Alaskans know is that guns are tools. Many in the 49th state still live close to the land. They use guns to feed themselves by killing ...
Too much too soon, too sad, too quickly. The news out of Tucson is only days old, but already it seems as if we've known the place, known the major...
Let's consider how the career of Gabrielle Giffords, and the good will she inspires from political supporters and opponents alike, makes her so quintessentially American and so classically heroic.
It's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day on Monday, the holiday that celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize winner's birth and life. The Rev. King wasn't assass...
Although Jared Loughner feeds all kinds of false stereotypes about the mentally ill, I hope that this tragedy will spark a necessary debate for those of us who need access to mental health care and are not criminals.
As Gabrielle Giffords opens her eyes, I pray that this will become a moment when we all open our own.
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Tucson shooting that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) critically wounded and 6 oth...
Obama has proven his skills at oratory, yet sometimes he has seemed academic, or too cool. But at this time and this place it all came together. And the reason it did, I feel, is that the speech was authentic.
Originally published on Turnstyle, a project of Youth Radio. By Nishat Kurwa What gives? That's our question for reporters who are referring to J...
One of Buddha's Eight Noble Truths is the concept of Right Speech, the first principle of ethical conduct.
I am a native Tucsonan. But when the University of Arizona's McKale Center became a sanctuary Wednesday night, it was a sacred space for the entire country.
As one who has lost a daughter in her prime of life, I know how hopeless Christina's parents feel in their loss. What President Obama offered was to give Christina's young life a focal point for the whole country.
The debate over "Who is a Jew" is back in the headlines following the shooting in Tucson, Arizona that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
To many of us in the Latino community, the "deranged lone gunmen" on the desert fringe can sometimes bear more than a passing resemblance to the God-fearing, gun-wielding patriot filling our cities and suburbs.
One heinous act in Tucson Saturday by a lone gunman left six people dead and more than a dozen injured. For five days the nation gasped in horror as i...
The mood in my household of war refugees was subdued immediately after we heard of the shooting. Our thoughts went back to our years living in El Salvador during the civil war.
