Project 2025 & US Fascism: The Front Lines

Men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative'

Some of Trump’s supporters had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power, Luke Mogelson writes. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

George Chidi, Robert Mackey, and Nausicaa Renner break down the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the trial of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial ends in acquittal. The moral questions it raised linger.

After four days of deliberations, a jury acquitted 18-year old Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges related to his killing of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020.  That night, thousands had hit the streets to protest the August 23rd police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed after being shot in the back seven times by Kenosha city police officers. Rittenhouse traveled from his home state of Illinois to join a right-wing militia at the protest. Rittenhouse was charged with five felonies including first degree intentional homicide. He argued that he acted in self-defense when he fired his semi-automatic rifle, killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injuring Gaige Grusskreutz. The court proceedings were riddled with unusual moves on the part of Judge Bruce Schroeder, who had Rittenhouse draw the names of jurors to be designated as alternates in a game show-style raffle tumbler.

Rittenhouse, 17 at the time of the shootings, had traveled to Kenosha from Illinois to join a far-right “patriot” vigilante militia calling itself the “Kenosha Guard,” which had been mobilized to “defend property” and assist the police with crushing the protests that had erupted two days earlier following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake was shot seven times in the back at point-blank range in front of his children, leaving him paralyzed. The Kenosha shootings occurred in the midst of the reverberations of the largest demonstrations in American history, during which an estimated 15 to 26 million people took to the streets following the murder of George Floyd to protest the epidemic of police killings and official cover-ups.

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach

Jurors are asked to uphold the law as it stands. We don’t ask jurors to make the law. That’s on us.

A Wisconsin jury acquitted teenage vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse on homicide charges on Friday, and one of the far-right MAGA Republicans who is celebrating the verdict is Rep. Madison Cawthorn. The North Carolina congressman is even offering the 18-year-old Rittenhouse an internship, inspiring plenty ...

Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes

As many Americans feared that freeing Rittenhouse seemed to legitimize political violence, Republicans competed for the honor of offering him a job.

It is one thing to argue that the jury reached a reasonable verdict based on the law, and another entirely to celebrate Rittenhouse’s actions.

The cases are different, but the results illustrate larger disparities about what we consider self-defense

The most closely-watched murder trial in recent memory exemplifies the standard of cops and racists having a right to kill in the US

Demonstrators take to the streets after a jury cleared Kyle Rittenhouse on charges related to his shooting dead two people at an anti-racism protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year

[CORRECTION: This piece makes the claim that Jacob Blake was unarmed. However prosecutors and Blake himself have both claimed he had a knife at the time. AlterNet regrets the error.]Ronald Sullivan, Harvard Law SchoolIn a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation,...

In not-so-sleepy DC, there's a place for a street-fightin' man.

CHICAGO (AP) — For many Black Americans, Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal on all charges by a Wisconsin jury on Friday confirmed their belief in two justice systems: one for white people and another for Black people.

Failure of Biden’s efforts to reshape federal priorities will have a terrible human cost and hand the GOP a weapon.

Schumer’s endorsement is significant as other party leaders in the state refuse to support the Democratic candidate.