With the backing of a legislature his party dominated, Republican governor Doug Ducey created Arizona State University's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership in 2016. Both SCETL and its founding director, Paul Carrese, are now understood as key leaders in a movement for civic schools and centers.
For a moment, the fatal shooting of conservative activist and influencer Charlie Kirk last week pushed an already divided nation to its brink. Members of Congress screamed at each other on the House floor: Democrats blamed Republicans for fostering gun culture and mass shootings, while Republicans blamed Democrats for branding them "Nazis" and "fascists." MAGA influencers posted calls to rain retribution and vengeance on the left, citing dubious reports that the bullets had been carved with "pro-trans" messages.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk should have been a moment of pause. However one felt about the brash conservative provocateur and free speech advocate, his killing was shocking and sobering. The instinct in a healthy civic culture would be to stop, to grieve, to allow space for shock before the machinery of politics whirred back to life. That instinct has all but vanished. Instead, Kirk's death became instant fodder for partisanship.
"Essayli is a very specific and terrible threat," Daruvala said during a recent town hall for the "Stop Essayli" campaign, which is working to block the top prosecutor's permanent appointment. "He has already shown multiple times that he is willing to use the office in a partisan manner."
Trump dismissed the idea of reaching out to Governor Walz after recent shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers, highlighting his refusal to bridge partisan divides in tragic times.
Heinrich expressed skepticism about Jean-Pierre's use of 'Broken' in her book title, implying it contradicted her previous claims during her time as press secretary.
"I was one of the Democrats that, for years, just saw Fox News as a mechanism of the Republican Party. Little did I know that MSNBC is exactly the same, probably, frankly, even more directly tied."
"We're not the resistance. We are nobody's opposition. We're also nobody's cheerleader. Our loyalty is to the truth." - New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger
There's some irony here that he complains about the nasty partisan attacks. I'm not sure he's read his own Twitter feed or his X feed because he's also engaged in a lot of nasty attacks.