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On 6 January, a mob including White Supremacists and far-right militants stormed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. The attack followed mass shootings by white supremacists, like in El Paso in 2019 and a Pittsburgh synagogue the year before, and public violence by far-right militants at rallies across the country since Donald Trump’s election. The Biden administration now seeks to turn the attention of the post-9/11 counterterrorism enterprise toward “domestic violent extremists.” But in making this shift, it is vital that we learn from our mistakes rather than simply repeating them. Already officials are...

By Stephanie J. Nawyn, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on August 15, 2021, the frenetic evacuation of foreigners and Afghan nationals began. Thousands of these Afghans assisted the United States government, which put them in danger. The United States provides a special immigrant visa to resettle such individuals. But applicants face long backlogs, and immigrant advocates have appealed to the Biden administration to increase the processing speed. Many of these advocates are religious organizations. Since the April 2021...

Temperatures across the world are expected to rise past a level that scientists had hoped to avoid through drastic cuts in carbon emissions, according to a new report from a United Nations panel on climate change. Scientists say many changes from past and future emissions will result in irreversible changes for centuries to come. The report Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis found that it was “unequivocal” that humans are responsible for widespread and rapid changes in warming of the earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land. The frequency and intensity of heat waves and rains are expected to escalate...