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Following months of intensive care treatments after a truck accident, a Pakistani man, who arrived in Türkiye to join the relief process in the aftermath...

Begin bombarding the House and Senate now with calls and petitions and marches. Write letters to the editor. The message is clear: Enough is enough. Stop the slaughter.

A growing body of research reveals that the negative effects of mass shootings spread much farther than previously understood.

Research shows that mass violence leads to higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among young people and an overall decline in a community’s sense of well-being. “People really grossly underestimate the social cost of gun violence.”

A grim and familiar pattern has followed the parade of mass shootings across America. In their aftermath, the nation’s attention focuses on the direct victims of the attacks, the dead and injured, their families and friends, and the witnesses. But a growing body of research reveals that the negative effects of mass shootings spread much further than previously understood, harming the health of ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of Ukrainian children to leave their schools and homes. Such adverse shocks early in life can have profound long-term effects. This column presents evidence from WWII and the Vietnam War of how childhood war exposure had detrimental effects on education, physical and mental health, and labour market outcomes, even decades

The laws allow someone to use deadly force if they feel threatened, without the obligation to flee, and have increased monthly homicides by 11 percent.

In this updated research roundup, scholars find student achievement falls after school shootings and enrollment drops as families move away.