Before Charlie Kirk’s memorial is set to begin, two prominent voices are already pointing to what could follow the mourning: hope.

Van Jones, the progressive CNN commentator often publicly sparring with Kirk, revealed this week that the conservative activist sent him a private message just one day before his assassination. The message called for “a respectful conversation about crime and race.” Jones says the note has reframed how he sees the tragedy. “We can decide whether this moment makes us worse, or whether it makes us better,” he said, urging the country to choose dialogue over escalation. The two had previously been in a heated online exchange about the murder of a Ukrainian refugee on in North Carolina.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, has offered a parallel but di

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