Good to Know: Antisemitism in America Brent E. Sasley - April 8, 2025 Why is antisemitism now on the rise?
In Memoriam: Charles O. Jones Sarah Binder, Mark Rozell, Kathryn Tenpas, and Russell L. Riley - January 12, 2024 Chuck helped us understand the promise and limits of power in the U.S. constitutional system.
The Proud Boys and the Base are now illegal in New Zealand Brian Phillips - July 25, 2022 Designating these two white-supremacist groups as terrorist organizations will have global consequences
Patriot Front is on the march. It’s selling a story about whiteness. Candice K. Travis - July 24, 2022 Here’s the story the group was peddling when it marched on Boston’s Freedom Trail — and in hundreds of other appearances so far this year
Congress finally passed a federal anti-lynching bill — after 120 years of failure Justin Peck and Jeffery Jenkins - March 9, 2022 For decades, a small, intensely committed Senate minority was able to use Senate rules to block change and maintain the Jim Crow system in the South
Why it’s so misleading to call the Capitol violence ‘Third World’ Shariana Ferrer-Núñez, Melody Fonseca, and Fernando Tormos-Aponte - January 15, 2021 Like too many episodes in U.S. history, the violence was homegrown
Look beyond Trump’s language to see the roots of recent political violence in the U.S. Joshua C. Wilson - January 11, 2021 For the past 50 years, conservatives have capitalized on demonizing the federal government
Hate crimes are on the rise. What does it take to get state governments to respond? Regina Werum, Heather L. Scheuerman, Christie L. Parris, and Alison Faupel - August 12, 2019 We were surprised by our findings
Did El Paso show us that white supremacists are a serious threat? Few Republicans think so. Michael Tesler - August 7, 2019 Republicans see the news media as a much greater threat than white supremacists.
Ben Carson defended Trump’s racist tweets. Here’s how that affects his reputation. Naomi Tolbert, Gregory John Leslie, and Christopher Stout - August 4, 2019 Whites will like him more and blacks will like him less, survey findings suggest.