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Societal dysfunction in the United States

Few issues in America, aside from war and abortion, are as polarizing as guns, but why are we so obsessed by them in the first place? The hidden life of guns: NRA-led gun lobby wields powerful influence over ATF, U.S. politics. Rangers and wildlife officers are finding they must increasingly confront people with guns. Locked and loaded: A look into the minds of the gun-toters among us. From The Nation, a symposium on rebalancing drug policy. A book salon on This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim. The introduction to Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety by E. Summerson Carr. Nationalist troubles: This country is guided today not by a single set of values but by three sets, with each suffering from its own mounting internal contradictions and an uneasy relationship with the others. A review of A Question of Values by Morris Berman. A review essay on books about politics and religion published between 2004 and 2007. A review of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David Campbell (and more and more). A review of What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church by Kenda Creasy Dean. R. Georges Delamontagne on high religiosity and societal dysfunction in the United States the first decade of the 21st century. A look at the 6 most insane moral panics in American history. The NEH vs. America: PC propaganda at the National Endowment for the Humanities.