Politics Archive
Archives for October 2015


Pope Francis isn’t as progressive as you think.


In the US, more gun deaths are suicides than homicides.


Democrats are into prevention and background checks. Republicans talk about the Second Amendment, immigration, and even Benghazi.


The labor force participation rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1977.


When countries reduced access to guns, they saw a drop in the number of firearm suicides.


America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population but 42 percent of the civilian-owned guns.




America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and 15 times as many as Germany.

Life for “DACAmented” immigrants is relatively normal. That’s a huge deal.


The Syrian civil war itself is immensely complicated.


Ordinary Germans are taking Europe’s worst immigration crisis into their own hands — and facing imprisonment.


An expert talks about what many people get wrong.


Whether Joe runs or not, these folks will win.


Way more Americans are killed in gun homicides than in terrorist attacks.


Obama has repeatedly said that his biggest regret as president is his failure to pass significant gun control legislation.