Law Enforcement

Why are sheriffs aligning with right-wing insurgents? We go back to 2012 in Las Vegas, where a new far-right network of sheriffs held its first-ever gathering. Their mission? To combat what they saw as the “socialist” agenda under former President Obama.

Through firsthand accounts, this episode traces the chilling reality faced by racial justice protesters in 2020—who were violently run out of town by militias in coordination with their local sheriff.

Countering Violent Extremism has been lauded by some academics, politicians and activists, but targets communities harmed by the War on Terror.

Local sheriffs and government officials have ties to a small but active Far Right in Erie County. As the county becomes more multiracial, far-right groups continue to grow and organize locally..

Local militias in counties in Virginia are working to undermine democracy at a county level, sometimes working with local governments and law enforcement to enforce their authority.

Americans of conscience are exhausted by law-and-order grief—a chronic remorse and lamentation emanating from police violence visited upon unprotected peoples. The storied American tradition of anti…

Watch the roundtable discussion on the culture war and how the Right wields it to further their own agenda.

Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde massacre most of the past week. I’ve been so focused on facts and arguments, I haven’t sobbed. But the…

Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall talk to PRA about the historical origins of today’s Blue Lives Matter movement and its deep roots in structural systems of power.

Gardiner reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, looking at what Ackerman got right, and where he could have gone further in his analysis.