The killing of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk last month by a 22-year-old suspect has brought into focus the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. While Kirk was a victim of political ...

Washington: A troubling pattern has caught the attention of federal prosecutors and law enforcement: “nihilistic violent extremism”. Experts warn the term is new, but the phenomenon behind it is not.

Federal prosecutors have started describing some crimes as the work of "nihilistic violent extremists." One court filing described them as criminals who act "in furtherance of political, social, ...

Few would disagree that preventing extremism is a laudable goal, but even discussing extremism and radicalization may seem problematic within the field of psychiatry. Psychiatry’s legitimacy is ...

Folk psychology offers many terms for diagnosing frustrating people. Here I want to talk about two: “jerk” and “extremist” because they converge on a characteristic common to them. The word "jerk" ...

What is nihilistic violent extremism and why is it so hard to stop? Producer Eric Bombicino speaks with Amarnath Amarasingam of Queen’s University. Then, Barbara Perry of Ontario Tech University ...

The antisemitic attacks in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., alongside the recent white nationalist demonstration in Kansas City, expose a disquieting asymmetry in how society recognizes and ...

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. [...] So the ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. A recent social media post from an account belonging to President Trump prompted enough outcry over its use of a familiar racist trope that ...