It feels like we’re reliving a nightmare, doesn’t it? For the third time in as many years, the shadow of violence has fallen over Donald Trump, this time at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 25, 2026. A gunman stormed the Washington Hilton, and while the dust is still settling and many facts remain hazy, the incident has once again forced us to confront a deeply unsettling trend in American life. Alfonso Serrano from The Conversation reached out to James Piazza, a thoughtful scholar of political violence at Penn State, to try and make sense of this escalating…

This is a story about a mother’s desperate search for justice after her son was brutally bullied, and how the internet’s raw power became both her greatest ally and a double-edged sword. It’s a stark look at how social media, in its quest for “justice,” can sometimes overstep, blurring the lines between righting a wrong and creating new victims. It all started on a freezing January night in Kumamoto. A young junior high student, barely more than a child, found himself trapped on a commercial building’s rooftop while a group of his peers beat him mercilessly. The air was filled…