2014 - Fall - War in the West
Articles
Surely, the government planners didn’t see this coming.
In which the author discovers something quite extraordinary, and totally unexpected, about his admittedly rare surname
A timeline describes the development of the conflict between the radical right and the federal government over public lands.
Rancher Cliven Bundy has long been at odds with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). For 20 years he has taken an increasingly defiant stance toward the agency, refusing to pay what is now more than $1 million in grazing fees and fines to a federal government he does not recognize.
A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities is summarized in state-by-state listings.
A longtime racist skinhead says he’s a new man. In fact, he’s named a foundation after the homeless man he murdered.
A New Brunswick judge rules that a major bequest left for the neo-Nazi National Alliance is illegal and cannot be paid out.
After years of propagandizing, neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller is accused of a triple murder. The violence was a long time coming.
A mass murder in California throws a harsh light on the world of women-hating ‘men’s rights’ activists. It’s not a pretty sight.
A new book on race and evolution by noted science writer Nicholas Wade legitimizes racist and anti-Semitic theories.
Despite claims that the Klan is resurgent, the reality is that it’s in sorry shape. That’s not to say that members aren’t dangerous
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) suffered two major defeats in March and April, as authorities in Arizona and Texas, respectively, found a church-controlled community liable for $5.2 million in damages in a religious discrimination case, and seized a sprawling Texas ranch that church members had acquired as a sanctuary and retreat.
When the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers unveiled the Common Core State Standards in June 2010, no one predicted the torrent of right-wing fury they would release.
Yet another member of the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, whose adherents believe the majority of U.S. tax and criminal laws do not apply to them, died violently this spring after attacking law enforcement agents in a dispute that began with a routine traffic stop.
Anti-gay culture warrior Peter LaBarbera, founder and head of the hate group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, has suffered a series of setbacks in his ongoing quest to portray homosexuality as a “dangerous” practice that is “neither normal nor benign.”
For a moment, it seemed possible that the gay-bashing Kansas church infamous for picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers with signs like “God Hate F---” and “Thank God For Dead Soldiers” might moderate its views after the March 19 death of its founder and longtime leader. Pastor Fred Phelps himself, according to a claim from his grandson Zacharias Phelps-Roper, dramatically softened his stance on LGBT people shortly before he died in a Topeka hospice.
If its goal was to avoid criticism from the chorus of right-wingers who regularly complain about supposed liberal bias at institutions of higher learning, then South Carolina’s College of Charleston chose wisely when it selected Glenn McConnell as its next president.
