News in Brief Hate Crimes Spike After the Election And the most common place for them to occur, after sidewalks and streets, is in our elementary and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Hate Crimes Are Way Up—and the FBI Has No Way of Tracking Them Properly There is considerable anxiety about the potential for violence after a bitter national election. The data kept on… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief People of Color Are Far More Likely to Be Victims of Anti-LGBT Crimes While only 38 percent of the U.S. population identify as people of color, 60 percent of survivors of… Pacific Standard Staff
Social Justice Abortion Providers and a Constant Barrage of Personalized Harassment Shootings like the one at a Colorado clinic are rare. Stalking, hate mail, and intimidating protests are the daily reality. Nina Martin
Social Justice What’s the Real Goal of Islamic Terrorists? Israeli researchers suggest it may be inciting an anti-Muslim backlash. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Don’t Believe the FBI’s Most Recent Hate Crime Statistics Crimes targeting black and transgender Americans persist, but they are under-reported and under-recorded. Lauren Kirchner
News in Brief Cross Burning Is More Common Than You Think Hate-crime sentences are harsher than ever, but the terrorizing tactic still persists. Lauren Kirchner
Social Justice Hate Rock 101 A sociologist explains why Sikh temple shooter Wade M. Page's white-power music scene is dying out, just as we're all discovering it. Randy Blazak