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Health Care
A 2019 Trace partnership with THE CITY and Measure of America found that shooting victims in the borough were more likely to die than anywhere else in the city.
Philadelphia
Parents say that no one has been arrested for the murders of their children, even after they've passed along tips to the police. Now they're skeptical of a new campaign to locate homicide fugitives.
Shot and Forgotten
Cuts could strain the long-term viability of an aid program for survivors of shooting assaults and other crimes.
Data
A new Stanford study tapped a massive database to show how shootings strain hospitals and taxpayers.
Q & A
Left for dead in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, the California congresswoman revisits the episode that sparked her career-long crusade for gun reform.
Longform
It took a second for the gun to accidentally go off, weeks for Florida to pass a law to keep guns out of children’s hands, and a lifetime for Sean Smith to forgive himself.
'In movies you always die quickly from a gunshot wound. But not in real life.'
Jooyoung Lee documents the very painful ways that shooting injuries transform vibrant young men.
