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Protesters wave placards against President Donald Trump during a Rise and Resist Against White Supremacy demonstration inside the Grand Central Station in New York on September 18th, 2017.

Social Justice

The DOJ Is Finally Bridging the Gap Between Online Radicalization and Domestic Terrorism

The choice to treat the El Paso, Texas, shooting as domestic terrorism opens up law enforcement's ability to investigate 8chan and the sites where extremism finds a home.

Jared Keller

Ideas

How to Fight 8chan Medievalism—and Why We Must

White supremacists are co-opting the Middle Ages in the name of ethnic cleansing. Fighting back requires us to tell better, fuller stories about the period.

David M. Perry

Social Justice

Are Racist Yearbook Photos Protected Student Speech?

Decisions in Illinois and North Carolina to reprint yearbooks with white nationalist photos have prompted a First Amendment debate.

Jack Denton

A supporter of Confederate heritage groups at the Jefferson Davis Monument on August 19th, 2018, in Richmond, Virginia.

News in Brief

A Fear of ‘White Extinction’ Is Provoking Racial Bias Among American Whites

New research finds those fears in turn provoke racial bias and support for conservative policy positions.

Tom Jacobs

Members of the Dayton chapter of the Black Panthers protest against a small group from the KKK-affiliated Honorable Sacred Knights during a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on May 25th, 2019.

Counter Demonstrations Overwhelmed a KKK Rally in Dayton, Ohio (in Photos)

The demonstrations were ultimately peaceful—but expensive.

Leah Dunlevy

Protesters clash in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Social Justice

White Supremacists Involved in the ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Take Guilty Pleas

Despite taking a defiant tone in the immediate wake of the infamous rally, the four men charged by federal authorities have all pleaded guilty.

A.C. Thompson

A makeshift memorial sits across the street from the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Sunday, April 28th, 2019, one day after a gunman opened fire on worshippers.

Social Justice

Does the Media Need to Report on Extremist Manifestos?

An extremism scholar discusses the ways in which journalism has been hijacked by bad faith actors in the wake of the Poway and Christchurch shootings.

Brianna Provenzano

Could Church Burnings in Louisiana Show a Connection Between Black Metal and White Supremacy?

The man accused of burning three black churches in Louisiana had an affinity for metal music, a cultural scene white supremacists have infiltrated in the past.

Jack Herrera

U.S. Marines pose with a SS Flag in 2012.

Social Justice

Does the American Military Have a Problem With Far-Right Extremism?

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security released a report highlighting the threat of far-right groups recruiting veterans. Ten years later, it's still relevant.

Christopher Jones