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Corporate America's week of political retreats

By Maria Aspan
Published September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM MDT

Companies have been firing employees and cracking down on reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination, in what business and legal experts call a "pretty bad" time for free speech.

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Maria Aspan
Maria Aspan is the financial correspondent for NPR. She reports on the world of finance broadly, and how it affects all of our lives.