Hate crimes in America dipped across the board in 2014, except in the category of anti-Muslim crimes, which rose about 14 percent聽over the prior year, according to . Given the barbaric Islamic State attacks in Paris last week and elsewhere recently, that latter trend seems destined to accelerate.
The accused South Carolina terror killer represents a new kind of violent racist, a 鈥榣one wolf鈥� radicalized entirely on the Internet.
Conspiracy theories originating on the extreme right have invaded American political life. And that's not good for democracy.
A recent 人兽性交 study found that three-quarters of recent domestic terrorist attacks or plots were the work of one person.
The new issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Report, released today, details 10 conspiracy theories that originated on the radical right but have made their way into the political mainstream. Enabled in many cases by leading politicians, these theories have the effect of distorting the democratic process.
Tall tales popular on the political right are distorting mainstream politics and undermining democracy.
Who, exactly, is Donald Trump appealing to?
The group that first attracted Dylann Roof to organized racism and may have inspired his murder of nine black South Carolinians was formed in 1985 as the modern reincarnation of the White Citizens Councils, which were set up in the 1950s and 1960s to resist the desegregation of Southern public schools.
The group behind the recent spate of undercover videos accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally selling 鈥渂ody parts from aborted fetuses鈥� is tightly linked to some of the country鈥檚 hardest-line anti-abortion extremists.
A Canadian appeals court today upheld a lower court decision invalidating a bequest worth an estimated $220,000 that was left to the National Alliance, one of America鈥檚 most notorious neo-Nazi groups.
