The killing of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk last month by a 22-year-old suspect has brought into focus the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. While Kirk was a victim of political ...

Washington: A troubling pattern has caught the attention of federal prosecutors and law enforcement: “nihilistic violent extremism”. Experts warn the term is new, but the phenomenon behind it is not.

Reports of violence are never in short supply. And it comes in many different forms from genocide to mass shootings to individual attacks. But many seem to have one thing in common - angry men. Here ...

Federal prosecutors have started describing some crimes as the work of "nihilistic violent extremists." One court filing described them as criminals who act "in furtherance of political, social, ...

What is nihilistic violent extremism and why is it so hard to stop? Producer Eric Bombicino speaks with Amarnath Amarasingam of Queen’s University. Then, Barbara Perry of Ontario Tech University ...

After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they ...

In a rare move, the White House recently took down a racist post from one of President Trump's social media accounts. Extremism researchers say it... Extremist rhetoric is often found in government ...

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. [...] So the ...

Private chat platforms are no longer just gaming hubs; they are emerging battlegrounds for radicalization, recruitment, and confessions. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is the latest case study in ...

On Sept. 18, 2025, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein published a Substack article saying that the FBI was getting ready for a "new war on trans people" (archived). In the report's first ...