Violence

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  • Cincinnati's killer cops

    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
  • Banning the bullies

    In the wake of school shootings, state legislatures are considering laws to crack down on harassment and violence in schools. How will they tell the bullies from the victims?
  • Deadly consequences

    "Zero tolerance" policies to stop youth violence may actually make schools less safe, an expert says.
  • Making sense of the shooting at Santana High

    Readers respond to Salon's coverage of the latest high school tragedy.
  • Been there, done that

    The Santana High School shooting was terrifying. The students' response was chilling.
  • The rap against Puff Daddy

    Sean "Puffy" Combs claims he's been targeted by prosecutors for being a young, black celebrity -- but that celebrity is built on a criminal image.
  • Badass girls on film

    Is it a good thing when women beat the crap out of men at the movies?
  • Shooting dad

    Childhood gunplay left me unarmed and dangerous.
  • Good blood

    A new book says the violence of great movies, from "The Wild Bunch" to "The Matrix," has a beauty that can't be denied.
  • Is nothing sacred?

    It turns out that reading aloud to your child is a violent act.
  • "It's just something on paper"

    Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit.
  • Asel is gone

    After a popular, peace-loving Israeli Arab teen is shot dead by police, his family and friends -- both Jewish and Arab -- wrestle with what his loss means for Israel.
  • Violence erupts in the Holy Land

    Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart?
  • The sound of silence

    Heartsick over the bloodshed in Israel, liberal American Jews are so far paralyzed by a conflict in which Palestinians are aggressors as well as victims.
  • Trailers

    Our ever-hopeful filmgoer suggests what might turn us on this fall and winter, and what might make politicians mad. They could be the same things.
  • Torture lessons

    With irresistible detail, a surgeon explores the cultural and scientific universe of the body in pain.
  • Cockpit assault

    Since July 1997, over a dozen passengers have attempted to breach cockpit doors during commercial airline flights. We've been lucky so far.
  • "Dead, I can't do anything"

    Francisco Santos, a former kidnap victim of drug lord Pablo Escobar, became a symbol of hope for Colombians weary of violence and fear. But when leftist guerrillas ordered him killed, he had to flee to the U.S.
  • Patted down at the opera

    Rio de Janeiro may pass an aggressive metal detector law.
  • What the NYPD did right

    By exercising restraint against rioters after Patrick Dorismond's funeral, the police gave Giuliani a chance to regain the moral high ground -- but will he take it?
  • Stop raping my loved ones

    Dating a victim of sexual assault means learning, awfully, how rape touches everyone.
  • Rape, robbery and anguish in the new South Africa

    I was arrested for fighting apartheid, but what good is freedom if rampant violence terrorizes blacks and whites alike?
  • Letters to the editor

    Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground.
  • Don't shoot that iMac!

    Online reviewers convince Epinions not to run a TV ad featuring a Mac being blown to smithereens by a PC lover.
  • Addicted to violence

    American culture and politics have glorified violence for years. So why are we surprised when 6-year-olds kill?
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