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‘Existing in a world of violence since we were born:’ Denver...

Sixteen-year-old Emma Friday walked out because she’s “sick of the violence.” Fiona Harris, 15, walked out because, she said, “everyone deserves an education. The fact...

‘Really scared and extremely angry’: Why Colorado students are walking out...

By Erica Meltzer, Ann Schimke, Melanie Asmar and Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado   They want this time to be different. Whether they’re walking out of school on Wednesday to call for...

Littwin: Is there really some movement on the gun control front?...

If you believe what you read — and who knows, it may just be Russian bots — there’s a groundswell of support to actually...

Quick on the draw: Cartoonist Mike Keefe and his thing about...

Some of us here at The Independent have, in one way or another, been working with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe for a few decades....

Wiretap: We know much more about the Las Vegas massacre, but...

We know more about the Las Vegas killer. We know more about the guns he used. We know more about the elaborate setup in...

Littwin: Summer of rage, summer of outrage

The temptation is to say that we've reached a breaking point. That the center cannot hold. That, as The New York Post irresponsibly splashed...

Watch Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s floor speech on guns

Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, up for re-election in Colorado this fall, joined 30 of his Democratic colleagues in D.C. for a filibuster about gun laws yesterday...

Wiretap: Gun violence victims are mostly poor, often black

Real faces The real faces of gun violence -- the shootings you rarely hear about outside the communities in which they happen, where the victims and the...

Littwin: We all agree gun violence is a huge problem. Right?

  Let's not talk about guns today. Let's talk about gun violence. We obviously can't begin to agree about guns. That much is clear from every...