Catherine Rampell: Republicans make us fear things they refuse to fix

Video: Video games did not invent hateful ideologies. The rush to blame them for mass shootings is a pathetic evasion of the truth, argues Alyssa Rosenberg. (Kate Woodsome, Joy Sharon Yi, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)It’s almost funny, in a twisted sort of way. Election after election, Republicans have based their core political appeal on fear.And yet — as dual gun massacres this weekend starkly illustrate — they refuse to offer solutions to any of the mortal threats Ame