The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices.
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In many cases, a single, shocking crime allegedly involving a foreign-born suspect was quickly reframed into a broader indictment of minorities.
Calls for calm as tensions rise are often a case of too little, too late.
Neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists were early adopters of bulletin board systems, pioneering online recruiting and radicalization techniques long before the social media revolution.
The mainstream media doesn’t simply cover far-right politics from a critical distance, it also helps to define what counts as politically acceptable.
In extremist circles, the idea of retreating to the land has been repurposed into a political strategy.
The power of social media companies lies in your data.
For decades, Malaysia and the US have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. Could that be changing?
The British government has banned the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist organisation seeking to create a new Russian empire.
Extremist ideas are slowly taking hold in Canada as adherents aim to leverage military training to spread cynicism about democratic institutions.
Trump’s claims of a white genocide happening in South Africa have been debunked by fact-checkers. But this is still the rationale for bringing white South African people to the US as refugees.
Far-right groups and influencers blend their narratives into public concerns to spread their conspiracies and recruit more people to their worldview.
In his new book, John Safran considers how broader cultural, economic and political forces and attitudes have contributed to a resurgence in antisemitism – through the lens of Kanye West.
Some global issues have prompted partnerships between seemingly strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum. The ‘horseshoe theory’ tries to make sense of this, but what’s it about?
The rise of misogynist attitudes among Australian boys occurs alongside an existing crisis — endemic levels of gender-based violence and murder perpetrated against women.
When a COVID-19-era policy was set to expire in May 2023, Republican officials predicted that the US-Mexico border would be overrun with migrants. That didn’t happen.
Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.
Five years on from the attacks, a detailed investigation of the shooter’s online radicalisation shows he was openly posting about his plans. Why was it missed and what can we learn?
In an uncertain world our natural instinct is to seek out answers that reassure, even when they don’t make sense.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama had used a long-standing Senate practice to block military promotions.
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