Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.

Racists from different eras still sound a lot alike.

An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain? It’s largely up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The Florida governor and potential presidential contender used his inauguration address to target his favorite bogeyman.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Amid the threats of climate change and civil war, the “solidarity dividend” benefits everyone.

Meet Europe’s new far right, the same as the old far right.

Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock are facing off in November. Both men are Black. This does not mean—contra New York Times pundit Frank Bruni—that race isn’t a factor.

America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.

The gunman was angry about “replacement theory.” Gee, where do we think he might have first heard about that?

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

The internet had a wild time mocking his recent segment on masculinity, but the Fox News host’s obsessions come straight from the literary canon of the crypto-fascist right.

Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.

It’s not just the pandemic, inflation, or the war—it’s how they blend together to disrupt the foundations of our lives.

Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.

Young conservatives can’t decide what the new “cancer” of liberalism is, exactly. But they are determined to cure it.

In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

The former president has a critical race theory about the prosecutors investigating his various malfeasances.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

How about we worry a little less about post-verdict demonstrations and a little more about the fascistic hate that is on the rise in the United States?