A Former Klansman Talks About How He Left a Life of Hate
Alyssa Schukar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shane Johnson was born into the Ku Klux Klan—now he works to convince others not to join hate groups. How did he get out? And what can we learn from his story? On the Mother Jones Podcast, senior editor Wes Enzinna shares insights from his…
You Can’t Understand White Supremacists Without Looking at Masculinity
Mother Jones illustration; Vintervarg/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly all right-wing extremists have something in common: They’re men. Without addressing this fact, it is impossible to make sense of hate groups or try to eradicate them, argues Michael Kimmel, a sociologist at Stony Brook University who has written several…
Immigrant Bashing Is All About Racism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What is it that gets so many conservative whites so enraged about immigration? Are they afraid immigrants will take away their jobs? Or do they just not like non-white people very much? Steven Miller, a political science professor at Clemson, decided to test this using…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
Trump Announces New Taxes on TVs and Air Conditioners
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It says something weird that this news is getting only slight attention: President Trump escalated his trade war with China Tuesday, identifying an additional $200 billion in Chinese products that he intends to hit with import tariffs. The move makes good on the president’s threat…
Kavanaugh’s Record Doesn’t Bode Well for Voting Rights
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, in the East Room of the White House on Monday.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, could determine how the court rules on cases that shape the future of…