The New Yorker

Where Political Violence Comes From

This past week, the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, was thirty-one years old. Tyler Robinson, a ...
Los Angeles Times

A new era of American political violence is upon us. How did we get here? How does it end?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...
PBS

Analysis: What data shows about political extremist violence

This article was originally published by The Conversation. After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist ...
The New York Times

Why Support for Political Violence Is Not as High as It May Seem

A tiny percentage of Americans support it in any meaningful sense, despite what some polls may show. By Nate Cohn A makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah. Credit...Kim Raff for The New ...