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…
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…
Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Just Waded Into the “Abolish ICE” Fight
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last few weeks, fueled by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset in New York and and a frenzy of damning stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…
#BBQBecky Called the Cops on Kenzie Smith. Now He’s Running for Oakland City Council.
Kenzie Smith.Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kenzie Smith, one of two men who had police called on him by the woman the internet dubbed #BBQBecky, is running for a city council seat in Oakland, California. It’s official, Kenzie Smith is running for district 2 Oakland City Council. pic.twitter.com/4kpfE5pJqz —…
What the Heck Is Wrong With Mike Huckabee?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What, exactly, is wrong with Mike Huckabee? That’s what a lot of observers are asking after the former Arkansas governor and Christian minister tweeted out a photo this morning of what appears to be a group of Latino gang members, and joked that House Minority…