Cato Institute scholar has a great overview of the data on how much political violence there is, and who perpetrates it. It is less prevalent than many think, and right-wing political violence is more common than the left-wing kind.

Justice John Paul Stevens, a liberal who was the fourth dissenter, wrote separately. The former Navy officer who earned a Bronze Star during World War II, said that even if prior court rulings could shield flag burning as symbolic speech, “this case has an intangible dimension that makes those rules inapplicable.”

How did the political party associated with stability and preservation become so interested in tearing down established institutions?

Political violence has targeted the political left and right and has been perpetrated by the left and the right. Here's a recap since 2011.

Charlie Kirk himself once said, “What we have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.”

He points to a variety of “profound social changes” as driving the surge, including deep partisanship, economic dispossession, ideological and geographic segregation, virulent online conspiracy theories, poor mental health infrastructure, and dissolving social structures like unions.

WASHINGTON — The first few minutes of President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week followed the conventional presidential playbook. He praised the victim, asked God to watch over his family and talked mournfully of “a dark moment for America.”

As Texas Republicans and California Democrats redraw U.S. House districts to their advantage ahead of next year's elections, they're potentially disrupting a rare partisan balance in American politics. The 220-215 majority that Republicans won over ...

Graphologist Emma Bache says the signature on the Epstein message is "very much the signature he had in the 2000s. I can absolutely say it is Donald Trump's."