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Mark Potok is an expert on the radical right based in Montgomery, Ala. Now at work on a book, he was an official of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization known for monitoring the extreme right, for 20 years.��ݰ���

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The Hideous People Behind a ‘Heinously Ugly’ Klansman Statue

A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT

Those people had to die before, for once, the Lost Cause finally, actually lost something.

Mark Potok | Published Dec 19, 2021
opinion

Farrakhan Calls the Vaccine the White Man’s ‘Death Plan’

NOT HELPING

The Nation of Islam leader is telling Black people not only that the vaccine isn’t safe—it’s part of a plot to rid the world of millions of non-white people.

Mark Potok | Published Dec 22, 2020
opinion

This Is Who Serves and Protects Bad Cops

NO BARGAIN

We know that problem cops are tough to fire. The reason—their unions. That has to change. Now.

Mark Potok | Published Jun 23, 2020

The Strange History of the Group Tied to Jersey City Murders

OLD HATRED

Perhaps the most bizarre thing about Black Hebrew Israelism is the way it mirrors, with only a change in color, the ideas of Christian Identity.

Mark Potok | Published Dec 11, 2019
opinion

The Creepy Racist Network Behind Trump Aide Stephen Miller

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

The White House aide’s emails frightened America, and rightly so. But the bigger story is a vast racist network that has shocking reach into the GOP.

Mark Potok | Published Nov 29, 2019
opinion

To Fight Right-Wing Terror, Call It by Its Name

NO SILVER BULLET

Despite the claims of Trump and his enablers, it is not internet algorithms, mental illness, violent video games, or even foreign plots that are driving the violence.

Mark Potok | Published Oct 07, 2019
opinion

The White Nationalist Who Set the Stage for Trump

FROM FAIR TO MAGA

His groups were largely responsible for killing comprehensive immigration reform in 2007.

Mark Potok | Published Jul 21, 2019
opinion

White Nationalist Threat Swells, and Trump’s DHS Retreats

‘STAMPED OUT’

The intelligence work that is supposed to support law enforcement is being shuttered by an administration that finds bliss in ignorance.

Mark Potok | Published Apr 02, 2019
opinion

That Was Fast: The Racist Right Sours on Trump

BOO HOO

The always-fractured radical right was overjoyed at Trump’s presidency, but no, as one put it, the president “is at best on probation.” So sad for them.

Mark Potok | Published Dec 22, 2018
opinion

The Curious Case of the Black Man Befriending KKK Members

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

The intent may be fine. But it’s hard not to wonder if he isn’t fundamentally aiding and abetting the cause he claims to oppose.

Mark Potok | Published Sep 01, 2018

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