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    The Weight of Our Words

    Violent crimes committed by Muslims are much more likely to be reported as "terrorism." And that has disturbing consequences for the way Muslims are perceived.
    by Shankar Vedantam Apr 13, 2018 1 minute
    Sometimes it can feel like there is a terrorist attack on the news every other week. But how much attention an attack receives has a lot to do with one factor: the religion of the perpetrator. <em>David McNew /AFP/Getty Images</em>

    This week, we look at the language we use around race and religion, and what it says about the culture we live in.

    In 2014, two shooting sprees occurred six months apart in busy

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