When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System
Thirty people in a queer club were shot with an AR-15 by a man with…
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What Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt
Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he…
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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade
In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment…
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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to…
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Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’
Mat Staver, cofounder of the right-wing legal activist group Liberty Counsel, seems to think that…
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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy
Thinking of these killers as “lone wolf” actors makes it easier to dismiss them as demented individuals, hapless victims of bad parenting, self-destructive misfits, or erratic evil doers. But we need to see these “lone wolf” white supremacists for what they are—members of “wolf packs.”
Read MoreHouse Hearing on White Nationalism Missed the Boat on Christian Nationalism
The federal government cannot attack the scourge of hate without understanding the role Christian supremacy plays in white nationalism behavior.
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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack
It makes no difference whether or not Tarrant or Breivik were card-carrying members of racist organizations. They imagined themselves as triumphant warriors in a great social struggle.
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What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?
“He was more into women than religion,” remarked one of the neighbors of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel,…
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After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?
I returned home this lovely and generous summer morning to find a book of essays…
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