After the silence, a burst of gunfire Friday from the National Rifle Association. We’d been waiting for a week to hear what the nation’s largest pro-gun lobby would bring to the conversation about how we can stop their products from murdering schoolchildren at their desks. Under fire, the group spent a week like deer in […]

It didn’t happen when a dozen students were shot and killed at Columbine High School in 1999. It didn’t happen after 32 students were murdered at Virginia Tech University in 2007. But perhaps it may happen now that 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. have lost their lives at the hands […]

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ […]