There’s a simple reason why many people believed Trump supporters assaulted Jussie Smollett. Since Trump became a presidential candidate in 2015 hate crimes have surged. Many violent attacks have been linked to Trump. And he explicitly...

During the latest gathering of far-right extremists in Portland, Oregon, Haley Adams, a member of the violence-prone Patriot Prayer, revealed her white-nationalist leanings in an interview. Adams organized the “#HimToo” rally on November 17 in...

Far-right terrorism is a feature, not a bug, of Trump’s presidency

On October 12, three far-right skinhead gang members attended a talk by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes at the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan, according to video, photographic, and eyewitness evidence. One of them, Irvin Antillon,...

After more than a year of right-wing rallies and counter-protests that have ended in violence, this famously liberal city is bracing for an influx of far-right activists outfitted for combat and talking of bringing guns to a political rally here...

There’s an ironclad rule with Republican presidents — the greater their authoritarianism and incompetence, the more spectacular the destruction they cause. Richard Nixon’s paranoia led to Watergate, forcing him to resign in 1974. Gerald Ford...

At dawn on June 28, Christian Evans was asleep on a couch in the driveway of the Immigrations and Custom Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon. He is one of hundreds of protesters with #OccupyICEPDX. For 11 days running they had shut down the...

In Portland, Oregon, the prison used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is housed in a nondescript building tucked between a highway and the waterfront south of downtown. The tan three-story structure has darkened windows and no identifying...

Immigrants are not an object for your history lessons. Immigrants are not numbers in your game.

Scott Ostrem, a 47-year-old, white man, walked into a Walmart north of Denver on Nov. 1 and opened fire. Eyewitnesses described him as “nonchalantly” shooting shoppers with a handgun, killing three. Police captured Ostrem alive the next day....

John Kelly, the adult in the room, the one who is supposed to stop Trump from leading the United States “on the path to World War III,” has shown his true colors. Kelly’s attacks on Florida Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson — over how Trump...

According to his associates and allies, Trump is “a nut job,” a “carnival barker,” “kooky,” and “very, very not smart.” Trump has turned the White House into “adult day care.” Most infamously, Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United...

You would think by now the mainstream media would have figured out how Trump operates. Last week the White House dumpster fire was going nuclear. Puerto Rico was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe “with little help in sight.” The right’s...

It is sad to watch politicians, pundits, and CEOs  prance around the cesspool of white nationalism oozing from the Trump presidency. They are desperate to cling to the myth that the mayhem in Charlottesville and Trump’s behavio...

In Donald Trump’s mafioso-style presidency, appearances are reality. Trump courts chaos solely to appear strong and decisive. That was his standard for Trumpcare: getting a win at any cost. If an early version of the Republican healthcare bill...