A relatively new Klan group, named after one of its most violent predecessors, meets with the NAACP and makes nice with the Crips street gang. Seriously.
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A relatively new Klan group, named after one of its most violent predecessors, meets with the NAACP and makes nice with the Crips street gang. Seriously.
Richard Belzer is known to millions of Americans as television's John Munch, an acerbic detective in almost a dozen different shows over 20 years. But the popular actor is also an increasingly florid conspiracy theorist and author who recently has come to describe the United States as a "fascist" country ruled by "sociopaths."
When Craig Cobb showed up in the near-ghost town of Leith, N.D. a few years ago, he told his new neighbors that he was looking for a quiet place to live. But he was lying. Instead, Cobb was quietly buying up lot after lot as part of a plan to create a "Pioneer Little Europe" – an all-white community he hoped to rename Cobbsville.
The National Alliance, which once dominated the U.S. neo-Nazi scene, has fallen on increasingly hard times in the last decade. Now, with the announcement that it is no longer a membership organization, it could be sounding its death rattle. The move may also have been an attempt to short-circuit litigation over a Canadian bequest.
Since 9/11, researchers have produced a large number of studies of terrorism – analyses that help provide a basis for understanding the nature of the threat.
The League of the South, formed in 1994, has grown more radical over the years. But lack of success has sparked a new effort to present a kinder, gentler face.
The recent attempt to create a whites-only town in North Dakota is only the latest in a long history of intentional communities. An expert offers details in an interview.
Volksfront, once a powerhouse neo-Nazi skinhead group, appears to have collapsed. So have most of the other once-important groups on the radical right. Still, hate groups continue to present a serious threat and their numbers remain at record levels.
A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities from the third quarter of 2013 is summarized in state-by-state listings.
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