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Mark Potok is one of the country’s leading experts on the world of extremism and serves as the editor-in-chief of the SPLC’s award-winning, quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report , its Hatewatch blog, and its investigative reports. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mark has appeared on numerous television news programs and is quoted regularly by journalists and scholars in both the United States and abroad. In addition, he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights and in other venues. Before joining the SPLC staff in 1997, Mark spent 20 years as an award-winning journalist at major newspapers, including USA Today , the Dallas Times Herald and The Miami Herald . While at USA Today , he covered the 1993 Waco siege, the rise of militias, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the trial of Timothy McVeigh.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Anti-Government "Patriot" Groups Ramp Up Again
The Oath Keepers, a Patriot group composed of present and former members of law enforcement and the military, said its people would never surrender their weapons -- would never succumb to such "unconstitutional filth." Other Patriots warned furiously of secession, nullification, even civil war.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2012 For the Radical Right, Obama Victory Brings Fury and Fear
Rage is one thing, but delusional, hysterical, impotent, racist rage triggered by Obama's re-election will reach reach new levels of intensity & destructiveness.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 6, 2012 Editorial: Family Research Council Attacks on SPLC Dishonest
What is it about religious extremists that makes them so inclined to violence & racist hatefulness? Isn't religion supposed to be about enlightenment, charity & love?