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Cynthia Miller-Idriss

MSNBC Columnist

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Her most recent book is "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right."

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Her most recent book is "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right."

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Trump and his staffers are undermining the social norms that prevent racism

President Donald Trump's actions over his first three weeks in office seem to be increasing the risks of violence and inflaming racial tensions.
109d ago

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Trump’s ‘America First’ approach is already hurting Americans

Trump's freezing of U.S. foreign aid has stopped work in most military and security assistance programs including in Ukraine and parts of the Middle East.
117d ago

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Trump's pardoning of Enrique Tarrio sets a dangerous global precedent

What happens now that Donald Trump has commuted the sentences of Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys former chairman, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
138d ago

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The New Orleans truck attack is an urgent national warning

On New Year’s Day, a terror suspect (and Army vet) drove a Turo Ford truck with an ISIS flag through New Orleans' Bourbon Street. The death toll keep rising.
145d ago

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JD Vance and Elon Musk’s defense of a far-right German party has troubling risks

Elon Musk and Trump's vice president-elect JD Vance praised AfD, a German political party so extreme that other European far-right parties booted it from their coalition.
736d ago

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The dangerous Trump-blindness of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene chose loyalty to Trump over facts during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on disinformation and the government’s role in countering it.
833d ago

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Andrew Tate’s violent, misogynistic teachings are seeping into classrooms

Internet influencer Andrew Tate has amassed a growing following of school-aged boys to his misogynistic school of violent, anti-feminist thinking.
837d ago

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How the internet supercharged white supremacist homeschooling

An Ohio couple used homeschooling to indoctrinate children into white supremacy. The strategy is is nothing new, but the pandemic has made the problem worse.
885d ago

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Elon Musk’s Twitter is a welcoming home for Trump-disillusioned QAnon

Elon Musk's cryptic tweets seem to have ignited the QAnon masses and signal that Twitter is a welcoming space for conspiracists who've lost faith in Trump.
937d ago

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The Proud Boys at Penn State was never going to end well

Penn State played right into the hands of the far-right’s long-term strategy of using college appearances to platform hate.
940d ago

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Christian nationalism is a racist, ahistorical ideology of violence

Christian nationalism twists the scriptures and the Constitution.
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