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One of the few organizations in the United States that’s dedicated to helping people leave far-right white-extremism groups of the type that rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend had its funding halted by the White House less than two months ago. Life After Hate is a Chicago-based non-profit whose group of co-founders includes Christian Picciolini, […]

In the US, freedom of speech is a sacred right. But the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend was not about people exercising that right. What I saw at the University of Virginia, where I am a professor, was an organized campaign to terrorize American citizens and suppress the rights of others. […]

On Sunday, GoDaddy announced it would no longer house the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that promotes white supremacist and white nationalist views, giving it 24 hours to find a new provider for the domain. By Monday, the Daily Stormer had moved to Google’s domain-registration service, which forced Google to make a decision about whether […]

On Aug. 12, a planned march by rightwing extremists in Charlottesville, Virginia was cancelled due to early outbreaks of violence. But that didn’t stop one car from plowing into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing a woman. Described as a Nazi sympathizer by one high-school teacher, the alleged driver James Alex Fields Jr. had traveled more […]

1. Pick a side After a weekend of criticism from across the political spectrum, President Trump read a prepared statement to amend his earlier comments on the violence in Charlottesville. “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.” […]

Bitcoin’s skyrocketing price is showing no signs of slowing. It’s currently trading for over $4,100 a coin, having broken the $4,000 mark in the early hours of Aug. 13. It has traded for as high as $4,225, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. A prediction of $5,000 per bitcoin by years’ end, issued by […]Read More

Kenya’s government has denied the use of live bullets and killing of protesters as demonstrations rocked opposition strongholds in the capital Nairobi and in Kisumu county in western Kenya. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga said that government-mandated “death squads” had fired on protesters and called on his supporters to mourn them dead on Monday and not […]

“What’s that music?” my three-year-old asked as we listened to a song in a foreign language last December. Could my toddler be showing an interest in her Russian heritage? Maybe this would be a chance to tell her about the revered winter holidays of my childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia—calling up images of the falling […]Read More

Donald Trump’s flaccid response to yesterday’s white nationalist rally in Virginia that left one counter-protester dead and 19 others injured, was met with criticism from some of his Republican colleagues in the US senate. The president was silent at his New Jersey golf club for hours as neo-Nazis took to the streets chanting “Heil Trump.” […]Read More

Uganda’s highway A-109 shoots across the plain from Kampala past the occasional storefront shops and open-air kiosks common to the continent’s roadsides. After rising into the verdant tea plantations of the country’s Western Region, it passes through Fort Portal near the Congolese border. From there, a turn off the main road leaves the reasonably well-maintained […]Read More

One of the rallying cries of the white nationalist demonstrators in Virginia this weekend was originally a racist philosophy disseminated in Nazi Germany. White supremacists and other far right-wing groups marched in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday as part of the “Unite the Right” rally protesting the removal of a Confederate monument. Clashes with their critics […]

The FBI, along with the Justice Department’s civil rights division and district attorney’s office, have launched a civil rights investigation into the deadly car crash at a planned white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. One person was killed and 19 others were injured. 20-year-old James Fields, who allegedly plowed his car into a crowd of […]