Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
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Bella Ciao is a traditional Italian folk song known for its association with the anti-fascist resistance in Italy during the second world war.
Social media is awash with videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, highlighting the failures of platforms to protect users.
Trying to change someone’s mind can seem futile. But there are approaches to political discourse that still matter, even if they don’t instantly win someone over.
Bullet casings found at the scene of the shooting were inscribed with various messages linked to online gaming and meme subcultures.
Some have even called Kirk a patron saint of MAGA. Stories of his status as a ‘martyr’ are uniting America’s Christian right.
As social media platforms make it easier for millions of people near and far to witness public violence, the harmful effects have far greater reach.
Charlie Kirk is symbolic of how university campuses have become central to contemporary culture and politics.
Charlie Kirk’s education beliefs have deep roots that predate the MAGA movement and trace back to the 1960s.
The video of Charlie Kirk’s murder went far and wide, and many people ended up seeing it when they would rather have avoided it.
The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.
Kirk’s killing reflects a broader political impasse in the US, where a significant percentage of the population supports political violence of some form.
Charlie Kirk’s murder shows how deeply polarised American society has become.
Right-wing Christian nationalists saw him as a standard-bearer for religious values and libertarians praised what they saw as his commitment to debate.
Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.
Charlie Kirk and his organization connected students and the GOP in new and effective ways. But the slain conservative spread misinformation and thrived on outrage and intimidation.
The 31-year-old, who was shot and killed while speaking at a university in Utah, was a highly influential figure in conservative politics.
False election fraud claims helped fuel the US Capitol attack — and continue to create risks of violence and domestic terrorism.
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
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Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology, Utah Valley University
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Professor Emeritus, Social and Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Assistant researcher, University of Sheffield
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science, University of Guelph; Queen's University, Ontario
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder