How should we protest neo‑Nazis? Lessons from German history
We have an ethical obligation to stand against fascists and racists in a way that doesn’t help them.
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US’s terrorist listing of European far‑right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home
Listing a violent extremist group as ‘terrorist’ makes it illegal for any American to offer the organization financial support.
Most CEOs aren’t abandoning neutrality on Trump – yet
Despite a growing list of reasons why business leaders might oppose the president or his policies, more than two-thirds have remained steadfastly neutral.
Is Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize‑winning photograph an American ‘Guernica’?
Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph from Charlottesville evokes a ‘Unite the Right’ moment from 1937 – and the anti-war masterpiece by Picasso that emerged from it.
Schools must equip students to navigate alt‑right websites that push fake news
A researcher discovered that many US students cite alt-right websites in their research papers. Should teachers discuss the websites to help students tell fact from fiction?
Warning signs of mass violence – in the US?
Two genocide and mass atrocity prevention scholars argue Trump’s response to the Charlottesville attack is a red flag.
Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas
Symbols of the Confederacy can be seen in Brazil, Ireland, Germany and beyond. While some people may not grasp their racist history, others clearly fly the ‘rebel flag’ to defend white supremacy.
What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?
Two websites, one taken offline, the other still active, raise hard questions about how prepared Americans are to deal with free speech about white supremacy, in both monuments and domain names.
How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory
‘Ours is the only city in Brazil where the Confederate flag flies,’ said a city council member in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste. A new law there bans ‘symbols that promote racist and segregationist ideas.’
Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers who fled the South after the Civil War.
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