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political violence

Mangione did not commit an act of “political violence.” He committed an act of “anti-political violence”

John Fea   |  December 20, 2024

A lot to chew on here. From the editors of Commonweal: In a guest essay in the New York Times, the bioethicist Travis N. Rieder argued that one must be able to understand the anger that seems to have motivated Thompson’s killer while […]

Historian Joanne Freeman on the near scuffle between Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz

John Fea   |  January 7, 2023

Here is part of what I wrote last night after the fourteenth ballot for Speaker of the House: Before the end of the vote, McCarthy had to walk up the aisle to talk to Matt Gaetz to try to get […]