by jpitney | Sep 18, 2023 | Campaign Finance, Elections, Violence
Greg Morton Marianna Sotomayor and Camila DeChalus at WP: Candidates running for House and Senate offices increased campaign spending on security by more than 500 percent between the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms, a new Washington Post analysis of filings with...
by jpitney | Sep 15, 2023 | Romney, Violence
McKay Coppins profiles Mitt Romney at The Atlantic: One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety. The congressman reasoned that Trump would be impeached by...
by jpitney | Aug 18, 2023 | Civility, Violence
Patrik Jonsson at the Christian Science Monitor: In 2018, shortly after a deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, 80% of Americans worried that negativity and incivility would lead to violence, or even acts of terror, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll....
by jpitney | Jun 15, 2023 | Elections, Public Service, Violence
Ayah Mahana at Politico reports on threats against poll workers: The threats — largely stemming from people who deny the result of the 2020 presidential election — are already causing poll workers and other election officials to resign in droves, according to Tonya...
by jpitney | Jun 12, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Violence
CMC alum David Enrich at NYT: Attacks on journalists in the United States have become common. Last year, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker identified 41 journalists who were physically assaulted. In one extreme case, a Nevada politician was charged with murdering a...
