What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a new one.

Vigilante groups have taken up the trappings of the Revolutionary War to justify their insurrection.

On new nonfiction about white supremacy in America's past and present

As impeachment and the 2020 election loom, Trump’s hard-core supporters are poised to unleash a wave of violence against their enemies.

Why Virginia’s off-off-year elections bode ill for the GOP in 2020.

Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

The Supreme Court will decide whether Maryland taxpayers should have to support the Christian symbol.

What neuroscience tells us about the persistence of hatred

When the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that the group even existed.

How a dead white supremacist sparked a debate over the tactics used against the extreme right

How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups

How gun culture and radical politics are combining to produce a new kind of zealot

Two new books explain how the Klan gained so much power in the 1920s.

White nationalists entered 2017 on a high. They ended it in disarray.

In the wake of Charlottesville, the ACLU shifted its longstanding position on the issue. In Trump’s America, that may have been inevitable.

The president doesn't pretend to represent all citizens—just his most hardcore supporters.

White supremacist rallies in Trump’s America usually fizzle out. Not this time.

Notes from the end of the world as we know it.

White supremacists from the KKK to the alt-right hold rallies solely to troll liberals—and they're succeeding. It's time for a new resistance strategy.