The assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has turbocharged the conversation — and fears — around political violence in the U.S. And, more than perhaps any other recent high-profile ...

He’s goading bad actors on the left to give him a reason to harass his law-abiding critics. That may no longer be true. Trump has been riling the left through a decade of hateful provocations, ...

Following the September assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have shaped their political agenda by blaming the left for political ...

The United States is in the grip of an era of violent populism. Threats and acts of political violence have been on the rise for roughly a decade, affecting a wide variety of victims, including ...

This story contains text and audio with offensive language. For decades, Republicans railed against what they saw as a liberal media establishment shaping American politics from the left. Nearly a ...

A new study published in Political Psychology suggests that the midpoint of the common left-right political spectrum scale hides a surprising amount of political diversity, potentially mixing ...

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