Paul Ryan Calls Donald Trump’s Attack on Judge ‘Racist,’ but Still Backs Him JENNIFER STEINHAUER, JONATHAN MARTIN and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, The New York Times JUNE 7 2016 Image: Speaker Paul D. Ryan called Donald J. Trump’s comments about a Hispanic-American judge “racist,” but said there was more “common ground” with him than with his presidential rival. By CBS, VIA REUTERS on  Publish Date June 7, 2016. Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/European

Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth Steven Erlanger, The New York Times 07 April 2016 Image: The Schaerbeek neighborhood in Brussels. Salah Abdeslam, the Islamic State recruit who participated in the Paris terror attacks, sought refuge in the neighborhood for weeks. CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York Times BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic

SPLC's Intelligence Report: Amid Year of Lethal Violence, Extremist Groups Expanded Ranks in 2015 Intelligence Report 17 February 2016   The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 – a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations. The report, contained

Anti-Muslim hatred ratcheted up sharply after the Islamic State attacks in Paris. Then came San Bernardino and Donald Trump Leah Nelson, Intelligence Report 17 February 17 2016 Standing with President Francois Hollande of France 11 days after Islamic State terrorists slaughtered 130 people and injured more than 350 others in three coordinated attacks in Paris, President Barack Obama told Americans to refuse to give in to fear. “There have been

 The Year in Hate and Extremism The number of hate and antigovernment ‘Patriot’ groups grew last year, and terrorist attacks and radical plots proliferated. Mark Potok, Intelligence Report 17 February 2016     Charleston. Chattanooga. Colorado Springs. In these towns and dozens of other communities around the nation, 2015 was a year marked by extraordinary violence from domestic extremists — a year of living dangerously. Antigovernment

General is said to think Afghan Hospital Airstrike Broke U.S. Rules Eric Schmitt and Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times 6 October, 2015 Image: Gen. John F. Campbell called an airstrike on a hospital a result of "a U.S. decision made within the U.S. chain of command." Credit - Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The American commander in Afghanistan now believes that United States troops probably did not follow their own rules in calling

Tales of Horror Should Galvanize Obama Nicholas Kristof, New York Times 04 July 2015   IN THE MARSHLAND OF SOUTH SUDAN — BAREFOOT and shellshocked, the survivors trickle into a village here with unimaginable stories of rape, castration and mass murder committed by a government that the United States helped install. This civil war here in South Sudan will be a top item on President Obama’s agenda during his visit to Africa this month, and

Calls to Drop Confederate Emblems Spread Nationwide Campbell Robertson, Monica Davey and Julie Bosman, New York Times 23 June 2015 Image: Kuniharu and Barbara Kubodera, center, joined an anti-Confederate battle flag rally Tuesday at the State House in Columbia, S.C. CreditBrian Snyder/Reuters COLUMBIA, S.C. — What began as scattered calls for removing the Confederate battle flag from a single state capitol intensified with striking speed and scope

Slavery's Long Shadow Paul Krugman, New York Times 22 June 2015   America is a much less racist nation than it used to be, and I’m not just talking about the still remarkable fact that an African-American occupies the White House. The raw institutional racism that prevailed before the civil rights movement ended Jim Crow is gone, although subtler discrimination persists. Individual attitudes have changed, too, dramatically in some cases. For

In Charleston, a Millennial Race Terrorist Charles M. Blow, New York Times 21 June 2015   “You don’t have to do this,” said Tywanza Sanders to the young man who suddenly rose and drew a gun, and according to witnesses, said he was there “to shoot black people.” He had been sitting in the Bible study session at Charleston, S.C.’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for an hour, next to the pastor, debating scripture.