Do news blackouts help journalists held captive?
News organizations have invoked the captives’ safety in seeking media blackouts. But do the blackouts really benefit the individuals being held captive?
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Introducing the NRA kingmakers
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythThe rites of spring rarely change. Every year, even before turkey season begins, hunters begin sighting their shotguns. Every spring, too, eligible members of the National Rifle Association elect directors to its governing board.
The gun at the heart of the assault weapons debate
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythThe rising popularity of the Bushmaster AR-15 has helped make Remington Arms and its North Carolina-based parent company, Freedom Group, one of the nation’s largest and most profitable gun manufacturing groups.
What the Judiciary Committee Should Ask Wayne LaPierre
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.
How the NRA became the fringe
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythHow far does the NRA’s absolutism go when it comes to the Second Amendment?
EXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle
/in Mother Jones/by Frank SmythThe current head of the Nominating Committee, Patricia A. Clark, lives in Newtown, just a couple of miles from the school where 20 young children and six adults were massacred.
Even Court-Approved Extraditions Have a Troubled, Bloody History in Guatemala
/in InsightCrime.org/by Frank SmythThe first time the U.S. tried to extradite a Guatemalan military officer for drug trafficking, it took the assassination of the nation’s chief justice, in 1994, to stop it. No officers and few civilians have been extradited since.