When is it self-defense?

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 10:36 p.m.

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What self-defense means in a country deeply divided over gun rights and race. And a story that shows the stakes of disappearing local news \\u2013 about an Alaska community where climate change is costing them their school. 


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After the high-profile trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery \\u2013 we wanted to unpack the legal questions with Post columnist and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler and talk about what self-defense looks like in a country with gun rights, stand-your-ground laws and deep racial divides. 


In a remote town in western Alaska, climate change has become a daily reality: Thanks to erosion, the community\\u2019s only school sits just feet from a crumbling riverbank. But the state won\\u2019t pay to replace it until it falls in. Greg Kim reports from Alaska\\u2019s radio station KYUK as part of a Washington Post project on vital stories out of America\'s news deserts.

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