Unemployment, Race and Crimes by White-ists

by Leonard Zeskind

Unemployment rates tell us some things about how the economy is doing. But aggregate rates, even if they go down a virtual eighth of an inch like they did in November, hide high levels of disparity by race. And they...

Moscow Murder Part of a Pattern

by Leonard Zeskind

The November 16 murder of Ivan Khutorskoy in Moscow underscores the growing threat of ultra-nationalist violence in the Russian Federation. Khutorskoy, a well-known anti-fascist activist and a leader of the Red Anarchist Skinheads (RASH) group, was gunned down near the entrance...

A Re-Birth at IREHR.org,

A Personal Statement by Leonard Zeskind

The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) is a different kind of organization.

We didn't hesitate to point at the racism motivating the Tea Party protests. We are dedicated to countering the...

"The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead." So argued Mark Lilla, author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West and several other highly regarded books. A professor at Columbia University and a former editor of The...

Most of the facts are well known by now. Democratic politicians returning to their home districts during the August recess have been met with a loud and angry opposition. Not in every instance, but in enough cases to make a difference, the conflict has exceeded the norms of civility....

The Wichita district court room remained virtually empty today, with rows of seats behind the defense table sitting mostly vacant during the preliminary hearing for Scott Roeder, accused of murdering Dr. George Tiller on Sunday May 31. Judging from the testimony given by three men who served as ushers...

In Houston, Texas the Tea Party was part protest and partly a statement of group identity. One sign read, "I'm the ProLife, gun toting Constitutionalist the DHS warned you about." Otherwise the 600 rallied against Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi as a symbol of their discontent. In Austin, they booed Republican Senator...

On July 4, tens of thousands of mostly middle-class white people in hundreds of different cities will register their opposition to the Barack Obama presidency at Tea Party events from coast to coast. Mainline Republicans will be among the protestors. They might carry poster signs about the rapidly expanding national...

Scott Roeder, who is being held in a Wichita jail as a person of interest in the murder of Dr. George Tiller, is widely known for his anti-abortion zealotry. Less understood is his connection to the so-called Christian common law courts and the militia movement. In the mid-1990s, Roeder associated...

It is Not the Economic Crisis,
The Department of Homeland Security Gets It Wrong, Again.

by Leonard Zeskind

Murder and mayhem motivated by white nationalist ideas never seem to end. In Brockton, Massachusetts in January, a 22-year old white man who lived with his mother and...