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The New Yorker <NewYorker@newsletter.newyorker.com>Date: 3 October 2017 at 01:17
Subject: The Mass Shooting in Las Vegas
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toyin.adepoju@gmail.com | | | |  After Las Vegas, There Can Be No Truce with the Second Amendment When gun violence happens here, we're told by the entire power structure of American life that there is nothing to be done, save to pray. By Adam Gopnik |  Washington's Ritualized Reaction to Mass Shootings Trump's speech was a classic of the "thoughts and prayers" model in that it offered no promise of a policy response whatsoever. By Ryan Lizza | | | |  Let's Stand with Jason Aldean Fans There's the cowardice and savagery of shooting blindly into an assembled crowd, but there's an extra degree of rancor required to deliberately turn a plainly joyful gathering into a mass grave. By Amanda Petrusich |  Rachel Maddow: Trump's TV Nemesis Her show permits liberals to enjoy themselves during what may be the most unenjoyable time of their political lives. By Janet Malcolm | | | |  PAID POST JEFFREY EUGENIDES's Fresh Complaint Stories from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Marriage Plot, The Virgin Suicides, and Middlesex. |  How Mexico Deals with Trump Its citizens loathe him. Its politicians are trying to find common ground. By Jon Lee Anderson | | | |  Trump's Taunts to North Korea Are No Laughing Matter The President's approach seems almost perfectly engineered to trigger Kim Jong Un's paranoia and animosity. By Evan Osnos |  Flip-Flopping on Free Speech The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today. By Jill Lepore | | | |  Remembering Si Newhouse, the Owner of The New Yorker He ran the business of the magazine and its parent company with a sense of passion, creativity, and daring for almost forty years. By David Remnick | | | |  My Grandmother, the Nazis, and the Shadow of the Olympics From the 1936 Games, in Berlin, to the 1984 Games, in Los Angeles, the glare of Olympic glory has obscured darker stories. By Molly Lambert |  David Simon on the Rise of Pornography The creator of "The Deuce" is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in his show but is unambiguously critical of porn's effect on America. | | | | | | Battleground America One nation, under the gun. By Jill Lepore | | | | What's Really Standing in the Way of Gun Control It's not a Supreme Court decision, as some might believe. It's political will. By Jeffrey Toobin | | | | Making a Killing The business and politics of selling guns. By Evan Osnos | | | | Domestic Terrorism and America's Gun Dilemma U.S. gun laws are so lax that many Americans believe that they need a weapon to defend themselves and their families. By John Cassidy | | | | The Simple Truth About Gun Control Five thousand seven hundred and forty children and teens died from gunfire in the United States, just in 2008 and 2009. By Adam Gopnik | | | | | | | |
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