It’s Wednesday, September 17. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: How to show grace in the face of political violence. Stop being mean to millennials. Trump and Bibi’s good cop/bad cop routine. A livestream with Niall Ferguson and Tina Brown. And much more.

But first: What the heck is Pam Bondi talking about?

That’s the question we ask in our latest editorial. More than once over the last few days, the Attorney General of the United States has sounded like someone totally unfamiliar with the protections offered by the First Amendment.

She went on a podcast to announce that “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech.” She added: “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.” She followed this up with a Fox News appearance where she insinuated that employers have “an obligation to get rid of” people who say abhorrent things about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The awful irony of this is that Kirk was a true-blue believer in free speech and a steadfast opponent of censorship. “Hate speech does not exist legally in America,” Kirk said just last year. “There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment.”

Kirk was right, and he had a much better understanding of the First Amendment than our chief law enforcement officer. While Bondi has tried to walk back her comments, President Trump’s definition of hate speech appears to include anyone in the media who criticizes him. “She’ll probably go after people like you! Because you treat me so unfairly!” he told an ABC reporter Tuesday. “It’s hate! You have a lot of hate in your heart!”

This isn’t just a horrible disservice to Kirk and his memory. It’s also exceptionally divisive at a moment when unity is what our nation needs.

—The Editors

Defying the Assassin’s Veto: Grace in a Time of Violence

Eli Lake

The day after segregationist and presidential candidate George Wallace was shot five times in an assassination attempt that left him paralyzed, one hospital visit set Wallace on a new path. Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president, met with Wallace in a show of force against political violence, and showed him grace. Eli Lake recounts the story—and explains its resonance today. Read full story

Why Trump Let Netanyahu Strike Hamas in Doha

Michael Doran

In the days since Israel’s strike on Qatar, one big question has been how much Washington knew about the attack. The answer, says Mike Doran, is obvious. In his piece for us today, he explains why denials of U.S.-Israeli coordination “strain belief,” and how Trump and Netanyahu developed a good cop/bad cop routine. Read full story

Millennials Have Too Much Self-Esteem

Charlie Wells

Everyone knows millennials get a bad rap. According to Charlie Wells, it’s an unfair one. Born into an era of unprecedented optimism, he explains—in this excerpt from his new book—millennials were raised to expect the world. It’s not their fault it came crashing down. Read full story

Tune In Today: Niall Ferguson and Tina Brown on the New Gilded Age

Tariffs, immigration restrictions, and the ultrarich flaunting their wealth: Are we living in a new gilded age? That’s the question our columnist Niall Ferguson tackled in a recent essay for The Free Press. It’s also the subject of today’s livestream. At 2 p.m. ET, Niall will be talking to old media legend turned Substack diarist Tina Brown. Click here to mark your calendars. This conversation is available to Free Press subscribers only. If you’re not already signed up, you can fix that here: