Over the gun: the new faces of hope and change

The display of bravery, unity, and eloquence the world witnessed Saturday on an issue that has paralyzed Washington for decades was also a rebuke to the current chaos in ostensibly grown-up politics.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and activist Emma González, pictured on screen, spent as much time on stage Saturday at the March for Our Lives in Washington as it took the gunman who changed her life and ended 17 others Feb. 14 to begin and end a massacre with an AR-15. Photograph courtesy of Mobilus In Mobili

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

March 28, 2018

On a balmy night in April 2008, I made my way at dusk with a throng of people through downtown Philadelphia to Independence Mall to cover an outdoor Barack Obama rally. I had been writing about the campaign for months, but it was on that night that the inevitability of the Illinois Senator’s vict...

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