The Proud Boys are more of a loosely affiliated street gang than they are a unified right-wing militia, researchers say. But police ignore the threats from these groups, and their threats grow.
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While Trump has received early warnings ahead of indictments and detailed explanations behind the charges, criminal defendants typically get a bare-bones explanation.
The founder of a violent anti-government group has been sent to prison for seditious conspiracy. Experts explain what that means.
Who are the Proud Boys, what do they want and is there a path back into society for these extremists?
Some of the now-adult children of influencers are pushing back.
There was once a time when you could simply put old photos and love letters out of sight and out of mind. Editing your ex out of your digital life is a lot trickier.
Al-Shabaab’s evolution over nearly two decades has been centred around three major goals.
Adopted in 1949, India’s original constitution has withstood the test of time to help shape the world’s largest democracy. But as India hits turbulent time, so does its landmark constitution.
Our research found that Kenyan students dislike ethnic-based politics in principle, but feel the pressures of tribalism.
Today’s media landscape is a far cry from the days of Watergate. A media scholar looks at the challenge the Jan. 6 committee faces in getting the hearings to break through in the age of TikTok.
White supremacist groups seek to solidify their control over the US by changing the government, sometimes by violence.
Elon Musk has an idea of what ails Twitter and what needs to be done to fix it. The problem is his assumptions are wrong.
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
How do a country and its citizens deal with the trauma of a deadly invasion by an enemy? Memes, cats and TikToks are emerging – most recently in the Ukraine war – as a way to cope with tragedy.
For the first 12 months of the pandemic, a team of researchers tracked the relationship between emotions, time perception and health-related behaviors like wearing a mask.
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic slave trade across state lines. Hundreds of thousands more were bought and sold within states.
Gifted education has long faced accusations of being elitist and excluding students of color. Will new changes prepare more students for elite colleges, or will they water down current curriculums?
Multiple factors determined whether or not individual Americans adopted COVID-19 safety measures, according to statistical analysis of public opinion data.
People who haven’t gotten vaccinated for COVID-19 often have complex reasons for their relunctance or may face other barriers. Lumping them all together undercuts the vaccination campaign.
Three decades after poet Frank X. Walker coined the term ‘Affrilachia,’ the region’s poets and artists continue to create work that probes the world of a people long ignored.
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Assistant professor, University of Alabama
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PhD Student in Psychology, University of Alabama
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Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Alabama
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Educational Studies, University of Alabama
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Professor of History, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Alabama
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Interim Dean of the School of Social Work, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama
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Research Associate, University of Alabama
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Assistant Professor of Biocultural Medical Anthropology, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Alabama
