I greatly admire the candor and moral clarity Teen Vogue brings to its headlines and reporting. The publication often provides the most forthright, unflinching version of vital issues. This headline is a tremendous example. It tops this “Teen Vogue Take” from Lex McMenamin, who, in reaction to a student’s description of the shooter as a “normal college dude”, writes:

To that student’s point, the alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter: a radicalized, young white male who, classmates told NBC News, espoused white supremacist rhetoric. The son of a longtime local sheriff’s deputy, according to NBC, he used one of his mother’s guns to commit the shooting.

At the sheriff department’s press conference about the shooting, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil told media that Ikner was a “longstanding member” of the office’s youth advisory council, and that, due to his training, it was “not a surprise to us” that Ikner had access to a gun.

So, just to sum up the state of things in this country: The American government is so hostile to immigrants and those sympathetic to Palestine that it is deporting them, snatching them off college campuses, and separating them from their families. Meanwhile, the real threat to college campuses are people like the FSU shooter, who, a fellow student told NBC, had been kicked out of a campus debate club over his white supremacist views.

Every news outlet should strive for this level of lucidity, and ask themselves: Why is a “young person’s guide to conquering (and saving) the world” a better truth-teller than us?