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An elected official in Pennsylvania has resigned after throwing a Nazi salute in a TikTok video while joking about Elon Musk. Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith had a giant grin in her TikTok video as she said she was “checking in” on friends who are “struggling this week,” referring to the start of President Trump’s presidency. “My heart goes out to you,” she said — tapping her chest three times and raising her arm in an offensive salute, still with a giant grin on her face. Although she did not mention Musk in her video, she was clearly referencing...

When James Alex Fields Jr.’s mug shot was released after he drove his Dodge Challenger through a counterprotest in Charlottesville on Saturday, no one was surprised by what the image revealed: a young, white man with a neo-fascist undercut. “Alt-right” figures like Richard Spencer absorb nearly all the media glare on white nationalism, creating the impression that this is a single-sex movement, and as many have pointed out, the white supremacists who rallied on Saturday were mainly men. When it comes to identifying the perpetrators of racial hatred in this country, it is tempting to comfort ourselves with gender tropes....

Abortionist George Tiller's death brought an outpouring of national media headlines and Congressional condolences to his family by a resolution approved by the US House. Laura Hope Smith's death at the hands of an abortionist was and continues to be ignored and her mother's effort to bring it to the attention of her senator was stonewalled. "Where was the press when my daughter Laura died at the hands of an abortionist?" asks Eileen Smith, Laura's mother. A media search shows mostly news reports from nonprofit organizations, religious news and other alternative media. Laura's death was mentioned 10 months later in...