He was our Anders Breivik. Like the Norwegian who last year massacred 77 of his countrymen — most of them teenagers associated with the Labor Party he blamed for enabling Muslim immigration — Wade Michael Page capped a life of seething rage with a grotesque and bloody act of terrorism.

In the end, it came down in line with prior precedent. The Supreme Court, ruling in late June on the Arizona law that set off a tsunami of ugly legislation aimed at undocumented immigrants, affirmed decades of settled law, saying the federal government — not states or cities — has the right to control immigration policy.

Is Agenda 21, a United Nations non-binding plan for global sustainability signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, a “comprehensive plan” for “global political control”? Is it a “destructive and insidious” scheme being pushed “covertly” in U.S. towns that would entail “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth”?

The overwhelmingly white Church of Scientology and the black supremacist Nation of Islam share more than just spaceships

Are we safe from the threat of right-wing terrorism? As the Patriot movement comes roaring back and hate groups soar to record levels, is the American population being protected adequately?

Something is happening on the radical right. Even as the presidential campaign season heats up and, with it, the possibility of ridding themselves of their hated black president, extremists are ratcheting up the rhetoric of war.

The 'lighter' side of the world's most infamous Nazi death camp, courtesy of The Barnes Review

The 1990s saw the rise and fall of the virulently antigovernment "Patriot" movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers and so-called "sovereign citizens."

Barack Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Africa, is a symbol of the rich diversity of our nation, his election a sign of how far our nation has come in embracing that diversity. But there are other signs of just how far we have to go.

Black Hebrew Israelism is a theology of dispossession — it is the very real dispossession of people who were brought to this country in chains and have struggled ever since.

A major biography of George Wallace reveals how racist radicals were utilized by the segregationist Alabama governor

Before the first anti-racism demonstrator had set foot in Jena, La., this fall, white supremacists already were burning up the Internet with furious denunciations, bloody predictions, promises of apocalyptic violence, and calls for lynching.

Even as a shaky legislative agreement on immigration reform is debated in the halls of Congress, poisonous and untrue propaganda continues to leak into the national dialogue on undocumented migration to the United States.

While the size of the radical traditionalist movement is dwarfed by the 70 million mainstream Catholics in this country, the movement's energetic men and women are having an influence.

A teen magazine makes an attempt to leave out reports of twins' white supremacist roots.

A Christian Identity minister calls for the reclamation of the courts from Satan. Bob Dylan is only one small part of the plot.

On the tenth day of the Minuteman Project, a vigilante effort to shut down human traffic across the Arizona-Mexico border that began on April Fools Day, a man named Patrick Haab was arrested at an Arizona rest stop where officials found him holding seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint.

In Hunting Eric Rudolph, a journalist and a retired cop detail the Rudolph case while also taking law enforcement to task.

As the number of undocumented Hispanic workers grows in communities throughout America, a violent backlash takes hold through vigilante action and legislated anti-immigrant sentiment.

A race riot between white and Latino students in a California high school lunchroom serves as a symbol for a new trend among America's youth — anti-immigrant, racist ideology and violence.

History repeats itself as Americans strike out against immigrants with hate speech and even violence, this time creating a schism within the environmentalist Sierra Club.

As a wave of violence descends on the D.C. transgender community, editor Mark Potok explores our culture's rage against gays, lesbians, the transgendered and other sexual minorities.

Report editor Mark Potok discusses the future of the American radical right and the nation's leading neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance.

The near-universal repudiation of Sen. Trent Lott — after statements amounting to an endorsement of institutionalized segregation in December 2002 — belies the spread of radical right ideology into the American mainstream.

The infection is spreading. Like pus from a wound, hatred is seeping from the most virulent extremities of our society into the organs of American democracy. The body politic is at risk of falling ill.

A growing number of criminal plots in the free world are born behind prison walls and recently released convicts are its soldiers.

The unexpected death of National Alliance leader William Pierce shifted the neo-Nazi landscape, but the appointment of Erich Gliebe as Pierce's successor means the organization lives on.

A new book, In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground, purports to solve the Oklahoma City bombing, but collapses in a tangle of thin conspiracy theories.

Editor Mark Potok discusses the importance of statistics in tracking hate crimes — and understanding their impact on our society.

The relationships between Confederate 'heritage' and the hatemongering neo-Confederate movement.

As anti-abortion extremists cross over from rhetoric to violence, Report editor Mark Potok wonders if the rule of law is considered relevant to the public debate.