WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Husted fired his campaign’s political director recently over Nazi imagery on the young man’s old social media accounts, a fast exit aimed at keeping the Ohio Republican from ...

The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement ...

What makes a person willing to use violence? The complex psychological and social path that leads people to violent extremism has been mapped out in a new model devised by Associate Professor Milan ...

A certain degree of "extremism" is necessary for survival, according to social psychologists, who argue the personality trait is behind positive social developments. Most people associate extremism ...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to classify specific transgender suspects as “violent extremists,” according to journalist Ken Klippenstein. Writing on his Substack, Klippenstein said ...

For the second installment of the News Literacy Edition of the NPR Public Editor newsletter, we're exploring how NPR defines extremism and uses the word in its reporting. The threat of extremism is ...

As the nation mourns after Canada’s deadliest school shooting in modern history, a question looms for people both close to the events and further away: Why? As with other mass shootings, this painful ...

UK Home Secretary Theresa May delivered a speech against extremism in which she explained in greater detail the counter-extremism strategy launched by the government in October. This strategy aims to ...

This week, the RCMP arrested four men in Québec, alleging they were attempting to create an anti-government militia. The RCMP used the umbrella term “Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism” to ...

Sounding a fresh alarm about white supremacism and extremism in the military, a coalition of more than 35 human rights groups, experts and faith organizations this week called on the Secretary of ...