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Americans are processing the murder of Charlie Kirk. Political leaders across the spectrum are condemning the violence. Some are trying to point fingers. Plus:

The “hideous, maggot-crawling depravity” of Epstein’s birthday book

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Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photograph from Getty

Ian Crouch

Newsletter editor

In the immediate aftermath of an act of political violence, when even the basic facts of the case remain in doubt, so much can feel out of control. “What politicians can control,” the New Yorker staff writer Benjamin

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