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Tom Scocca · 01/14/14 11:49AM

An early version of the New York Times's coverage of yesterday's movie-theater slaying included this analysis: "The killing underscored the increased debate about when to use smartphones in public." The story was later revised.

A Literary and Domestic Incident in the Desert West

Tom Scocca · 01/08/14 03:10PM

Aliens. Spacealiens. No such thing. How theyd fought it out, cosmic mysteries reduced to raw shouting in the uncaring morning. Her leaving in wrath and now returning, straight into the bedroom without him. Rustling and thumps.

Tom Scocca · 09/17/13 11:58AM

Despite the best marketing efforts of the gun industry, law enforcement officials now say that Aaron Alexis did not use an AR-15 in yesterday's massacre at the Washington Navy Yard. All 12 of the murders were committed with the shotgun Alexis had bought despite his history of gun violence, or with the handguns he apparently took from victims who were unable to stop his armed killing spree with their own handguns.