On the morning of September 28, 2025, a Sunday service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, turned into one of the most layered critical incidents I have studied in recent memory. Around 10:25 a.m., 40-year-old Thomas Sanford drove a pickup truck through the front doors of the church while hundreds of parishioners were inside. He exited the vehicle, opened fire with an assault rifle, and deliberately set the building on fire using gasoline....

When I was an officer, I struggled deeply with failure. Not just the act of making mistakes, but the way a mistake would cause me to see myself as fundamentally flawed. Perfectionism had followed me my entire life, showing up in the way I approached my work, my goals, and my own self-worth. When I became a leader responsible for ten new officers, I assumed that drive for perfection would serve me well. Instead, it got worse. I started projecting my perfectionism onto my team. Every small...

In the early morning hours of March 1, 2026, a busy stretch of Austin’s West Sixth Street turned chaotic when a gunman opened fire outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden, one of the city’s most crowded nightlife areas. According to investigators, the suspect, later identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, drove past the location multiple times before stopping and firing at people gathered outside the bar. He then exited his vehicle and continued shooting with a second weapon. The attack left...