violence

I, Too, View Indian Women As Second-Class

My Friends and I In Mumbai Like To Think We’re Enlightened, But No One Can Fully Escape the Prejudices of Society

On New Year’s Eve in Mumbai I stopped on my way to a friend’s house to pick up pastries for the host. My car was parked 20 feet away from the entrance of the cafe, which happened to be next to the Gateway of India monument, a hotspot for local revelers. Groups of men filled the sidewalk between the cafe door and me. After a moment’s hesitation, I chose not to get out of my car and instead headed to the party empty-handed.

I know wearing a short dress is not …

by Revti Gupta |

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When School Children Got Murdered In Stockton, CA

Twenty-Four Years Ago, Another Massacre Left People Asking Why—For a While. Will We Do Better This Time?

by Eric Tang |

In a statement following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of twenty children and six adults, President Obama made a decided shift. He chose not …

Should You See This Gruesome Image?

Thoughts Of a War-Zone Photographer On Using the Lens For Good

by Louie Palu |

Last March, responding to news of a killing, I found myself walking in the darkness at a crime scene in Quila, a small community outside Culiacán in Sinaloa, the state …

When—And When Not—To Show the Blood

An Interview With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer William Snyder

William Snyder, a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, is a former director of photography at the Dallas Morning News and current chair of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of …

When Killers Target Kids

The Science of Empathy Grapples with the Unthinkable

by Simon Baron-Cohen |

As shock gives way to mourning and to attempts to make sense of an unthinkable act of violence in Newtown, Connecticut–an event that’s sadly less isolated than we would hope–we …


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