Mass Shootings / Gun Violence

One morning five years ago, I was sitting in my tiny cinderblock apartment on my seminary’s campus in the middle of Texas. Across my battered, thrift-store kitchen table sat my friend John, a fellow…

There’s three definitions of terrorism I see tossed around. One is simple: Violence by a non-state actor. Another is moral: Violence against civilians—usually for a political purpose, and often by a…

Roger Cohen isn’t the first person to believe Islam is suffering a civil war. What’s actually happening is a lot worse. We’re in the middle of a Third World War. In last week’s column, “ Orlando and…

The first jihad of the modern era was not against the West, but against gay Muslims.

In this week’s Global LGBT Recap.

The U.S. Catholic bishops met in Huntington Beach, California this week, just days after the Orlando massacre. And despite the fact that the church’s most powerful prelates were all gathered together…

I returned home this lovely and generous summer morning to find a book of essays by the equally lovely and generous poet Gerald Stern waiting in the mailbox. My son opened the package for me, as he…

Early Sunday morning I woke up, my phone abuzz with news. Reading about the shooting in Orlando, worry and fright overcame me. Still in a semi-wake, semi-sleep, semi-dream state, I thought it was…

“Oh my God, it was Latin Night,” I said to myself as I lay in bed on Sunday morning, reading the news about the Orlando shooting on my phone. In the wake of the tragedy, I have found myself mostly at…

Omar Mateen’s vicious assault on a Saturday night crowd in an Orlando gay bar either had nothing to do with Islam, or everything to do with it. We don’t yet know all the facts, but what we do know is…