A ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Isn’t Enough
February 28, 2018 | More people need to treat gun control as the "do or die" issue it is — not make teachers engage in shoot-outs with students.
Articles by Mitchell Zimmerman
Law, Order, and the Dreamers
January 17, 2018 | The 800,000 young people brought here as undocumented children deserve to be treated as more than political pawns.
Lessons on North Korea from the Cuban Missile Crisis
August 23, 2017 | Amid the tensions, the Soviet leader secretly offered Kennedy good advice: Let's not tug on "the knot of war."
If You’re Against Immigrants, You’re Against My Grandma
January 18, 2017 | Many good kids — with the same American dreams my grandparents had — now fear being exiled to a land alien to them.
Reagan Sold Your Future, Trump Will Too
August 31, 2016 | White working-class voters should think twice before electing another flag-waving, immigrant-bashing, billionaire-enriching politician.
What Are Trump’s Values — and America’s?
March 9, 2016 | At every opportunity, Trump comes down on the side of meanness, fear, and hatred.
A Formula for More Murder
January 13, 2016 | Most "bad guys" with a gun were "good guys" with a gun — until they weren’t.
The San Bernardino Massacre Isn’t Part of a ‘World War’
December 16, 2015 | In most mass shootings, politicians shrug that "stuff happens" — unless the shooters are Muslims.