Nearly every member of Donald Trump’s wealthy cabal of cabinet members has faced some sort of scandal in the president’s first term. Scott Pruitt, Tom Price, David Shulkin, Ryan Zinke, and Ben Carson have all dominated the news at one time or another with their corrupt spending habits. The press had a field day with…
The racist “alt–right” poster boy Richard Spencer seems to be down on his luck these days. Following the disastrous “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, last year, and a series of failed college speaking engagements, Spencer’s 15 minutes of racist notoriety appear to be winding down.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—DeAndre Harris, the black 20-year-old who was beaten with metal poles by six white men during the Unite the Right Rally here last summer, was acquitted of misdemeanor assault charges on Friday afternoon to the applause of a courtroom packed with local supporters and activists.
Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, is done! Through! He has put his foot down and is resigning from his post as head of the National Economic Council, according to The New York Times.
Days into the news cycle of juicy tidbits from writer Michael Wolff’s new book about Donald Trump’s White House comes another frontrunner for most horrendous anecdote: our president trying to rationalize, in the wake of Charlottesville, why oh why someone would join the Ku Klux Klan.
The man accused of killing Heather Heyer after driving his car through a crowd of protesters during last summer’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA, was indicted by a grand jury for first degree murder on Monday. News of the indictment was released Tuesday.
Months after her daughter Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi during the protests against the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, Susan Bro has admitted that she still needs to keep Heyer’s grave hidden from violent white supremacists.
The New York Times published a profile over the weekend of an Ohio man named Tony Hovater, a co-founder of the white supremacist Traditionalist Worker Party. The piece, by reporter Richard Fausset, was meant to say something profound about the banality of evil—This man shops for groceries! He has a Twin Peaks tattoo!…
Donald Trump was elected president one year ago today. From day one, his presidency has been marked by a stream of protests spanning issues, including the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Women’s March, the travel ban, Confederate statues, healthcare, and white supremacy. Here are a selection of photos, from November 2016…
One of the most-watched races since Donald Trump’s election has been Virginia’s gubernatorial showdown between Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam. Northam, the state’s current liutenant governor, was expected to win for months. But he is now facing the possibility of a loss, a potentially major blow…
The “Unite the Right” rally on August 12 left one dead, 19 injured, and the city of Charlottesville in a state of turmoil and fear. In its aftermath, local leaders hurriedly vowed that justice would be served and order and safety restored. Most assumed this meant that the white supremacists who committed violent…
Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday ahead of Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Spencer, the virulent leader of white supremacy rebranded for the internet age, will speak at the public university’s auditorium on Thursday.
Donald Trump congratulated himself on Thursday about his infamous comments blaming the violence in Charlottesville on both anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters and the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who had gathered there.
When ESPN’s Jemele Hill accurately described President Trump as a white supremacist in a series of tweets on Monday, the sports network issued an apology denouncing her comments as “inappropriate.” Then the White House got involved, with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for her termination.
Last night, Cara Mund, aka Miss North Dakota, was crowned Miss America 2018, but it seems the real MVP was the pageant’s representative from Texas.
Police have arrested a man in Vancouver, WA, after he drove dangerously close to a crowd of protesters marching on Sunday. The unidentified driver, whose black Chevy was adorned with American flags and a Confederate flag decal, sped through the demonstrators after a Patriot Prayer rally that took place earlier in on…
These activists are marching from Charlottesville to Washington DC to fight white supremacy. “We will respond peacefully—but we will respond,” says Puja Datta, membership organizer for the Working Families Party and an organizer of the 10 Day March to DC to Confront White Supremacy. Her message to white supremacists:…
A white supremacist who was filmed brutally attacking DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville, VA, is attempting to defend his actions by playing the victim. Of course he is.
It hasn’t even been three weeks since the white supremacist demonstration at Charlottesville that ended in the killing of an antifascist protester (and the sudden, subsequent realization by way too many white people that Donald Trump is a white nationalist), but worry not, SVU fans! Law & Order: SVU is wasting no time…
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