A highly influential, “nonpartisan” group of lawmakers and corporate lobbyists focused on advancing free market principles also furthers efforts to push companies to eschew diversity and maintain ties with anti-LGBTQ hate groups, an investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch found.
The United States’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has sparked virulent anti-refugee rhetoric among the far right, especially those in the organized anti-Muslim movement.
