Rally on steps of Capitol in Boise is only the latest example of how antigovernment extremists are helping fuel a bonfire of Islamophobia in rural areas.
Rally on steps of Capitol in Boise is only the latest example of how antigovernment extremists are helping fuel a bonfire of Islamophobia in rural areas.
The handsome black sheriff with the baritone voice is the conservative media's latest darling, but his background and the beliefs he espouses are deeply disturbing.
Conspiracy theories originating on the extreme right have invaded American political life. And that's not good for democracy.
After a year of sorrow, fear and anger over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last year, the one thing the troubled little city did not need this summer was a pack of self-appointed guardians of the U.S. Constitution, toting around assault rifles and wandering the tense streets filled with protesters and police.
Kim Davis isn’t the first person the Liberty Counsel has encouraged to defy the law and disobey a court’s orders.
In a further escalation of tensions, members of the antigovernment Oath Keepers have joined the media circus surrounding a Kentucky anti-LGBT clerk's defiance of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.
Reality in the shape of forest fires and their smoke settled over the scene of the latest antigovernment attempt to provoke a confrontation with the federal government over public lands policy.
Mississippi is the only state still blocking adoptions by same-sex couples, Arizona militia members are busted on drug-rip charges, and the term “c---servative” is catching on with some Republicans.
The Oath Keepers have shown up in the tiny western Montana town of Lincoln, answering a “call to action” issued earlier this month to protect the “constitutional rights” of a local mine owner in a dispute with the federal government.
Responding to a nationwide call to arms issued by the leadership of the Oath Keepers, scores of antigovernment “Patriots” have begun showing up fully armed and prepared to guard military recruiting offices across the United States – and some continue to do so.