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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Trump Sees Moral Clarity in London and Complexity in Charlottesville
The president’s divergent responses to two apparent terror attacks speak volumes about his approach to politics.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Was Charlottesville a Turning Point for the 'Alt-Right'?
A longtime observer of its online haunts argues that the hodgepodge of people united by antagonism to PC culture were irrevocably divided by the deadly violence at last month’s rally.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Charlottesville Makes Strange Bedfellows Around the World
Condemnation united Iran and Israel—and got the xenophobic National Front in France speaking out against white nationalism.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Black Charlottesville Has Seen This All Before
The return of violent white-supremacist rallies to the city is a special threat to its African American community, but not a new one.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Trump's Reaction to Charlottesville Threatens the GOP
Over and over again, the president has explicitly identified his party with white backlash—just as the most diverse generations in American history are gaining power in the electorate.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Road to Radicalism in Charlottesville
Violent extremism—whether in jihadist or white supremacist form—is often driven by the same processes.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP An Indelible Image From Trump's 'On Both Sides' Press Conference
Once again, the chief executive chose his own words over the ones that had been prepared for him.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Anti-Semitic logic fueled the violence over the weekend, no matter what the president says.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters After Charlottesville, Business Leaders Are Dumping the Trump Administration
Several prominent executives have resigned their positions on the president's manufacturing council and issued statements decrying racism.
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CBS Joking After Charlottesville
On Monday, Anthony Scaramucci appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. He was ready to laugh. The host—and the host’s audience—were not.
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Justin Ide / Reuters Could Police Have Prevented Bloodshed in Charlottesville?
Neo-Nazis and counter-protesters alike think that local and state police should have done a better job keeping violence from breaking out over the weekend.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?
Religious communities are grappling with the racism that enabled violent attacks against protesters—including the racism within their ranks.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why Won't Trump Call Out Radical White Terrorism?
It is precisely at moments like this that an American president should speak up directly on behalf of the American creed.
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Steve Helber / AP Why Charlottesville?
The university town was once named “the happiest city in America.” More and more, though, it’s the setting for hatred.
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AP The Hoods Are Off
The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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Seth Herald / The Atlantic Bloodshed in Charlottesville
A photojournalist captures scenes from a Virginia city beset with violence as white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Alt-Right Members in Charlottesville Vow Not to Back Down
“This is a phenomenal victory.”
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Hidden Meaning of Trump's Charlottesville Remarks
Reading between the lines of a denunciation of hatred, bigotry, and violence
