Charlie Kirk’s Death: One Story After His Passing Had Both the Left and Right Tearing Up

Folks on 'left' and 'right' share one thing they respect about one another. It's giving hope.

The United States feels on edge right now, with passions running high and partisanized rhetoric ramping up in the days following Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah. For non-extremists, it's disheartening to see people on both "the left" and "the right" being painted in sweeping brush strokes filled with vitriol. Most of us don't live like this in our everyday lives. Most of us don't live at extremes and are capable of nuanced thought. We ackno…

Trump & Conservative Supporters Weaponizing Kirk’s Murder: Dems “Have Blood on Their Hands”

As of this writing, the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, the founder of the highly influential conservative organization Turning Point USA, on Wednesday during his “America Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University, is still at large; their motivation a mystery. While numerous studies over the past 10-15 years have shown that the extreme right is responsible for most political murders and attempted murders in this country, it didn’t take …

Charlie Kirk’s Death Reactions Show a Nation Divided

Download Print-Friendly Version The news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Wednesday at Utah Valley University is devastating.  He left behind a young wife and two small children, who were very clearly the center of his world. While much of the online commentary about him has been respectful and positive, it is hard to escape the online celebrations of his death—gleeful posts blaming the victim because of his political beliefs, excusing the lac…

Charlie Kirk’s death: One story after his passing had both the left and right tearing up

The 31-year-old was gunned down while speaking in Utah last week.

‘This Planet Needs to Heal’: Why Aussies Mourned Charlie Kirk’s Death

SYDNEY—By candlelight in Sydney, hundreds of strangers wept for a man most had never met. Charlie Kirk’s death may have been an American tragedy, but to those gathered, it was also a stark reminder that locally Australians need to reject bitterness, embrace dialogue, and bridge divisions. The 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA was shot in the neck while speaking to a crowd of around 3,000 at Utah Valley University during his American Co…

Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder has ‘leftist ideology’, Utah governor says

Governor Spencer Cox says the 22-year-old suspect spent time in ‘dark places’ online.