It’s a public safety issue,” the nonpartisan coalition said.So often, the product of entrenched politics is a loss of hope and agency. Eastern time today.In Nashville, Tennessee, last month, more than 5,000 people linked arms, forming a chain 3 miles long that ended at the statehouse. The special edition was sent to your email at 10:30 a.m.

To this end, the Monitor has put together a collection of stories to show that ways forward are possible and that problems remain entrenched only so long as we turn away or view the other side as the enemy. But it can keep us awake. Falling into the indolence of despair must never be an option. It does not need to tell us what to think. But here is where journalism can play a vital role. Why are guns seen as different?This past weekend, I felt that profound sense of impotence after the latest in America’s series of mass shootings. Although mass shootings are not unique to the United States, their scope and frequency are. We know deaths would rise if we loosened seat-belt laws or car safety regulations. Yet it is inescapable that mass shootings, while the result of many variables, are inextricably connected to America’s gun laws. This can be accomplished in countless ways that defy partisan lines. With devastating frequency, mass shootings tragically underscore this fact. The Monitor does not exist to advocate for any particular policy, but for the expansion of universal values such as compassion, freedom, responsibility, or honesty, to name a few. Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.So much of American politics today promotes a profound sense of impotence – the inability to move entrenched forces, even a degree.

In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'įor Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONĪ beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

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