Violence

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  • My dad threatened to shoot us all and chop us into pieces

    I'm not sure how much filial devotion I owe my father, now that he's talking about buying a rifle.
    By Cary Tennis April 4, 2007

  • A fellow law student broke my nose and joked about it on Facebook

    I am humiliated and outraged and don't know what to do.
    By Cary Tennis March 30, 2007

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The real culprit behind brawls like Saturday's in New York is childish whining about running up the score.
    December 19, 2006

  • Pentagon reports Iraq violence at highest level

    The weekly average of attacks in Iraq over the past four months is worse than at any point since the transfer of sovereignty, Congress was told today.
    By Alex Koppelman December 18, 2006

  • What else we're reading

    Madonna in Malawi, the war on children, cat poop affects babies' sex and more!
    By Carol Lloyd October 12, 2006

  • U.K. to outlaw violent porn after woman's death

    Critics argue that the U.K.'s criminalization of violent porn does more harm than good.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory September 1, 2006

  • Streets of ire

    This summer, cities across the U.S. have reported frightening surges in youth violence. After a decade-long reprieve, what's gone wrong?
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz August 25, 2006

  • All unquiet on the eastern front

    With Afghans enraged by a worsening security situation and the West's failure to improve their lives, Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into violent chaos.
    By Mitchell Prothero June 14, 2006

  • Campus cruelties

    At Duke a decade ago, I got a glimpse of ugly male pack behavior I've never forgotten. Now I wonder about what my own small boys might do.
    By Erin Sullivan May 1, 2006

  • Girls haven't gone that bad

    And if they have, it's not the fault of feminism.
    By Lynn Harris November 2, 2005

  • Melting pot of blood

    With the insurgency boiling over and sectarian strife spreading, ethnic divisions threaten to derail the new Iraqi government.
    By Juan Cole May 6, 2005

  • The myth of media violence

    Contrary to the moralistic claims of Hillary Clinton and others, bloody video games and movies are not a major cause of crime. But they are a powerful drug we don't understand.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 17, 2005

  • Grand Death Auto

    Two kids, 13 and 15, killed an innocent highway motorist. Was a violent computer game responsible -- or their sad lives?
    By David Kushner February 22, 2005

  • Vote and/or die

    Braving death, a few Shiites hit the streets to turn out the vote -- and inspire one flag-waving Iraqi to welcome an American reporter.
    By Mitchell Prothero January 29, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The NBA was right to throw the book at Ron Artest, but the pent-up rage behind last week's string of violent incidents in sports remains.
    November 22, 2004

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The Pistons, the Lakers, Larry Brown and Detroit's reputation for celebratory violence: The readers write.
    June 17, 2004

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    As the latest victim of a cheap shot begins his long recovery, stand by for some bogus anti-violence posturing from the NHL.
    March 11, 2004

  • Innocence abroad

    Anti-irony crusader Jedediah Purdy, back from the Middle East, talks about terrorism, violence, the Calvinist heritage of Las Vegas and his new book about America's role in the world.
    By David Bowman March 4, 2003

  • Tell me something I don't know

    Violent fans, pot-smoking players -- why do the sports media seem shocked by the obvious and predictable?
    By Keith Olbermann September 26, 2002

  • Bloody ice

    The NHL could crack down on the violence that's wrecking hockey -- but it doesn't want to, and neither do its fans.
    By Allen Barra May 15, 2002

  • The ultimate violation

    Two writers -- a philosopher and a working-class Southern man -- describe the horror of violent rape and their long journeys back from darkness.
    By Charles Taylor May 8, 2002

  • What family values?

    The director of the Child Witness to Violence Project argues that President Bush isn't doing enough for kids who see too much.
    By Janelle Brown February 25, 2002

  • Eve Ensler: "Afghanistan is everywhere"

    The novelist, playwright and activist behind "The Vagina Monologues" talks about gender apartheid, the dangerous shedding of burqas and the seeds of violence we've begun to sow.
    By Janelle Brown November 26, 2001

  • Islam: Religion of the sword?

    Unlike Christianity or Judaism, Islam's religious history is inseparable from its conquests -- which is why the concept of holy war lives on today.
    By Richard D. Connerney October 11, 2001

  • Slo-mo gore, John Woo style

    In the hit computer game Max Payne, death comes with a cost: Your own tortured soul.
    By Wagner James Au August 24, 2001
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