Richard Slotkin on Guns and Violence – Moyers & Company

Ahead of the one year anniversary of the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which Adam Lanza took the lives of 20 school children and six educators, Bill speaks with cultural historian and scholar Richard Slotkin about the role of guns in America’s national psyche. Slotkin has spent his life studying and

Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones’s Bid to Overturn Sanctions for Rant Threatening Sandy Hook Families’ Lawyer on His Show

The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to overturn sanctions affirmed by the Connecticut Supreme Court for his threatening rant against a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victims’ families who sued him for defamation. The ruling adds to the string of losses that Jones racked up in multiple jurisdictions, where a mountain of potential legal