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We have seen a rise in political assassinations and assassination attempts, along with violent extremist attacks that have ticked upward for years. Mass casualty plots in the U.S. have increased by over 2,000 percent since the 1990s, leading to the deaths or grievous injury of thousands of people in shootings at schools, grocery stores, theaters, parades, concerts, houses of worship and more.
In the search for explanations, the public and policy discourse is most often swept up in heated debates about far-left or far-right ideologies. But the data shows that the biggest and clearest predictor of mass shootings, across ideologies, sits somewhere else: in rising gendered grievances, patriarchal backlash, and the perpetrators’ histories of gender-based violence and misogyny.
Man Up makes visible what has been invisible for far too long—the bright red thread of misogyny that links nearly all mass violence—and to call for solutions that address these root causes and keep all of us safer.
February 18, 2026 | 6:30PM PST
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About the Author: Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), MSNBC Columnist, and accomplished author.
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