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Antisemitism in the United States

Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest white nationalist type groups in the country, speaks during a rally at the state capital in Little Rock, Arkansas,

White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat

As more people embrace a xenophobic and anti-immigrant worldview, it is fueling hostility and violence toward those deemed “outsiders” — whether because of their religion, skin color or national origin.

Richard Spencer

Poland’s right-wing nationalist government objects to visit by US white supremacist Richard Spencer

Conflict
Spencer Pensoneau, Ron Klump and Philip Weiss (left to right), of Weiss and Rosenbloom Monument company, work to right toppled Jewish headstones after a weekend vandalism attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Misso

Asked — again — about anti-Semitism, Trump condemns it as ‘horrible’

Justice

Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked Sikh temple shooter for more than a decade

Global Politics
The World

US Citizen’s Death by Drone

Global Politics
The World

Aha Moment: Gentleman’s Agreement

Conflict & Justice

Listener Susan Evans grew up in rural Louisiana during the 1950s and ’60s. Her first year of high school was also the first year of federally enforced integration in her town.

How a Danish Former Biker Turned Jihadist, then Double-Agent, Says he Helped the CIA Track and Kill Anwar Al Awlaki

Global Politics

American-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki was killed by US drone strikes in Yemen in September 2011. It turns out that the CIA may have gotten help from a Danish double-agent to get to their target.

Eric Holder: US Can Target Citizens Overseas

Attorney General Eric Holder outlined the United States’ legal defense of using lethal force against U.S. citizens overseas if that citizen is posing a terrorist threat.  Holder’s speech, delivered Monday afternoon at Northwestern University, argued in part that the U.S. Constitution’s definition of due process defends the use of lethal force, even without the written consent […]

Newly-Discovered Recordings Shed Light on a Young Malcolm X

In 1961 Malcolm X came to Brown University to publicly rebut an article published in the school newspaper that criticized the Nation of Islam. Fast-forward to 2011. A Brown University student was assigned to create a historical narrative using anything in the school library and stumbled across one of the oldest recordings of Malcolm X […]

Islamic Extremism in Yemen

There are increasing worries Al Qaeda is using the instability in Yemen to spread its influence. An American military operation assassinated the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki last year. One week ago militants took over the town of Radda.  Stephen Sackur, with our partner the BBC, sent this report.