When was the last time you felt good about the internet? Today’s online landscape is a harrowing one. People screaming... more

Raised on active shooter and lockdown drills, Gen Z has endured an onslaught of violence — and emerged inspiring a... more

Easy to handle and easy to conceal, handguns went boom in the 2000s, the same moment when many Americans —... more

After a devastating, now largely forgotten, mass-shooting prompted lawmakers to take aim at assault weapons in the 1990s, their ban... more

In the 1980s, a pair of intimidating NRA leaders recast the organization in their own imposing images as the group... more

The Second Amendment may have begun as a Constitutional afterthought, but a late 20th-century ideological shift caused some to view... more

Mass shootings have plagued the U.S. for generations. But in 1999, when shots rang out in a suburban Denver school,... more

This season host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, recounts how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven... more

Emboldened by COVID lockdown protests and fighting Black Lives Matter demonstrators, far-right extremists and white power groups prepare to overthrow... more

After Trump’s election, far-right extremism explodes, and internet racism boils over into the real world. From Charleston to Charlottesville to... more