The Reckoning
The Sandy Hook killer’s father tells his story.
The Sandy Hook killer’s father tells his story.
Andrew Solomon New Yorker Mar 2014 30min Permalink
A journey through America’s convoluted gun laws.
Alan Berlow Politico Magazine Dec 2013 15min Permalink
The turf wars at New York City’s hip hop station, Hot 97.
Ben McGrath The New Yorker Jul 2006 30min Permalink
The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.
John Graves Texas Monthly Oct 2006 45min Permalink
Inside New England’s thriving arms industry.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Apr 2013 20min Permalink
Money, money, money.
Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Mar 2013 15min Permalink
The dark money and political power behind the nation’s largest gun group.
Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone Jan 2013 25min Permalink
After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.
Paul Tullis New York Times Jan 2013 25min Permalink
A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.
Jo Ann Beard New Yorker Jun 1996 30min Permalink
This isn't an essay or simply a woe-is-we narrative about how hard it is to be a black boy in America. This is a lame attempt at remembering the contours of slow death and life in America for one black American teenager under Central Mississippi skies. I wish I could get my Yoda on right now and surmise all this shit into a clean sociopolitical pull-quote that shows supreme knowledge and absolute emotional transformation, but I don't want to lie.
Kiese Laymon Cold Drank Jul 2012 20min Permalink
On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the Founding Fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.
Adam Winkler The Atlantic Sep 2011 20min Permalink
American demand for drugs gave birth to the cartel war that is paralyzing Mexico, but American guns purchased legally across the Southwest and smuggled over the border have made it staggeringly lethal.
James Verini Portfolio Jun 2008 Permalink
Most military experts agree that robots, not people, will inevitably do the fighting in ground wars. In Tennessee, a high-end gunsmith is already there. The story of Jerry Baber and his robot army.
Evan Ratliff New Yorker Feb 2009 20min Permalink
Adapting from his book The Gun, Chivers traces how the design and proliferation of small arms, originating from both the Pentagon and the Russian army, rerouted the 20th century.
C.J. Chivers Esquire Nov 2010 30min Permalink
Mikhail Kalashnikov’s brainchild, Avtomat Kalashnikovais aka the AK-47, is the most stockpiled firearm in the world and has altered the last century like no other product. C.J. Chivers, author of The Gun, discusses.
Charles Homans Foreign Policy Oct 2010 Permalink
The Appleseed Project is ostensibly a traveling marksmanship school - but what else is it teaching?