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A former Ohio National Guard member charged with making terrorist threats against a Jewish day school in Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a security guard now faces federal gun charges for making and selling ghost guns, untraceable firearms that lack a serial number. The federal charges against Thomas Develin, in a search warrant unsealed…
Airing dirty laundry: A Republican running to represent a New York congressional district that includes suburbs of Buffalo took to the airwaves last year to express admiration for Adolf Hitler’s leadership style. During a February 2021 radio appearance, Carl Paladino, a businessman whose campaign has been endorsed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranked Republican in…
One of the problems with the great replacement theory is that it doesn’t have a lot of competition. The conspiracy theory, which posits that elites — often explicitly pegged as Jews — are conspiring to overwhelm white Christian populations with immigrants and minorities, provides a compelling way to explain the world to mostly white men…
The news from Uvalde has metastasized our already deepening sense that our lives have gone meta. It is a ritual to remark that the responses of our politicians to mass killings are a ritual. It is a commonplace for commentators to comment that such massacres are commonplace. It is incomprehensible how often, in everyday conversation,…
The deadliest mass shooting this year happened in Texas on Tuesday, when a lone teenage gunman killed 21 people, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a small city 80 miles west of San Antonio. This is the 27th school shooting this year that has resulted in injuries or death, according to Education…
The mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, makes me want to scream. If you are a parent, or if you were ever a child, it’s impossible to read about the deliberate slaughter of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School by an 18-year-old gunman and not want to just shut down and cry. That’s…
The recent shooting in Buffalo has revived America’s dialogue around the “great replacement theory,” the conspiracy that the alleged gunman — and many others who have targeted racial minorities, immigrants, Jews, Muslims and queer people — have cited as inspiration. The theory, which originated in the early 20th century but has been prevalent in white…
A mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. killed 10 and wounded three, and opened a national conversation about the insidiousness of the racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories that appear to have motivated the suspected shooter. It also deprived a predominantly Black neighborhood of its primary grocery store. Beyond the Tops, the…
