The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien.
The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien.
We commend the members of the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee for their passage of four bills today that could finally put this state on the path toward meaningful criminal justice reform.
Lori Pruitt, who has a solo legal practice, recently volunteered with the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI), a project of the SPLC that enlists and trains lawyers to provide free legal representation to detained immigrants who are facing deportation proceedings in the Southeast.
The following is a set of entries in her personal log, about her pro bono work helping detainees with SIFI.
Shivering in a raft in the dark, four young far-right activists kept watch on their target at the deep-water port in Catania, Sicily.
Each Saturday morning we send the Weekend Read, an SPLC newsletter, to subscribers.
The surviving members of the Little Rock Nine returned to the high school they integrated for the 60th anniversary of one of the most iconic struggles of the civil rights movement.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a package of 10 criminal justice reform and reinvestment bills earlier this year that will reduce the state’s prison population by 10 percent and scale down the parole/probation population by 12 percent over the next decade.
Since 1985, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has served as the anti-immigrant movement’s go-to think tank. The organizaton publishes dozens of reports and hundreds of blog pieces each year that are cited by elected officials and the media. But its reports have been widely criticized and debunked by groups such as the Immigration Policy Center, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the CATO Institute.
The religious concepts of militia extremists
A planned rally last Saturday, Sept. 16, near Richmond, Virginia’s Robert E. Lee statue ended in humiliation for a group of flag-waving “patriots.”