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The new McCarthyism

As the country argues who's responsible for political violence, is a new blacklist being written?

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Sep 16, 2025
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When we talked last Wednesday with Knight First Amendment Institute director Jameel Jaffer about the threats to free speech in the Trump 2.0 era, we couldn’t have foreseen how the reactions to the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and the reactions on the right to those reactions — would make those threats even more dire and wide-reaching.

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