*Trigger warning* Juliet Macur and Nate Schweber write for The New Times: “The case is not the first time a high school football team has been entangled in accusations of sexual assault. But the situation in Steubenville has another layer to it that sepa…
Laura Bassett and Jennifer Bendery write on Huffington Post:
Paul Farhi writes for The Washington Post: “The racial and gender dynamics of such crimes are rarely discussed or probed in the aftermath of these crimes. More attention is paid when the perpetrator doesn’t fit the prevailing pattern.”
Irin Carmon writes for Salon.com: “The dogged wish of many on the right to make the tragic Sandy Hook shooting about anything but guns means that it has to be about other things — ideally, things they already do not like. Things like feminism, abortion .…
Amanda Marcotte writes for Slate: “As the bodies are buried and the victims of the Newtown, Conn. massacre are memorialized, I beg of people to spare a moment to include Nancy Lanza in the list of innocent victims.”