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April 25, 2013
Michael Kinsley
Crackpots for Crock Pots!
Will Wayne LaPierre defend every American's right to build a pressure-cooker bomb?
April 23, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
There's Nothing Wrong With Properly Politicizing a Tragedy
The unthinkable eventually happens. Why not exploit it?
April 23, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Gun-Vote Backlash Has Only Just Begun
April 22, 2013
Nate Cohn
Get Ready for Gun Control As a Wedge Issue in 2016
April 19, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Gun Control Failed, Not Liberalism
The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback
April 18, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Gun Control's Long Game
Obama lost on policy. He may yet win on politics.
April 18, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Fatal Fatalism
Stop making excuses for senators. Start blaming them.
April 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn, Eric Kingsbury
The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen
After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger
April 17, 2013
Adam Winkler
Who Killed Gun Control?
The gun-control bill is dead. Why?
April 16, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Did Our Founders' Lack of Foresight Doom Gun Control?
The tyranny of small states in the undemocratic Senate
April 15, 2013
Leon Neyfakh
The Gun-Death Database That America Deserves
Obama's budget would fund research that the NRA has long opposed
April 12, 2013
Jeff Winkler
Gun-Toting Carpetbaggers
My quest to find a New Yorker who moved to Texas because of gun control
April 10, 2013
John B. Judis
Gun Control Is a Waste of Precious Time
Obama should have saved political capital for the economy
April 10, 2013
Molly Redden
Breaking Up Isn't So Hard to Do
Why Harry Reid and the NRA parted ways
April 9, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Dear Senators, Stop Listening to Your NRA Constituents
April 8, 2013
David Thomson
Apocalypses Now
Hollywood action movies need to get over the end of the world
April 1, 2013
Michael Brick
Jolie's Gun
A story about what this year's gun control proposals won't fix
March 28, 2013
Nate Cohn
What's the Point of Bloomberg's $12 Million Ad Blitz?
March 28, 2013
Tod Lindberg
No Agenda? No Problem.
For Obama, No Second-Term Policy Goals is Shrewd Politics
February 26, 2013
Julia Ioffe
Gun Shy
Wayne LaPierre’s surprisingly delicate psyche

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