A Roundtable on Political Violence Brings Strangers Together to Break Echo Chambers

On Thursday, Newsweek partnered with the political-bias assessment firm AllSides Technologies to host a national roundtable on political violence that I, as Newsweek's politics and culture correspondent, participated in as a reporter.

Reporting on something tied to one's job can present challenges, but given I'm no stranger to scrutinizing my employer, I felt up to the task. As Newsweek's Editor-in-Chief Jennifer H. Cunningham and AllSides CEO John Gable said in the event's opening address, with the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and, previously, Minnesota Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman, this is the time for America's institutions to tackle the scourge of political violence.