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American Psycho

The Empathy Apocalypse: How Psychopathy Became America's New Normal

Oct 24, 2025
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On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who had fled the Russian invasion, boarded a Lynx Blue Line light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. She sat down unaware of the man behind her, Decarlos Brown Jr., who four minutes later pulled a pocketknife from his hoodie and stabbed her three times in the neck in an unprovoked…

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