Trump's rhetoric has roots in far-right conspiracy theories that hold that Islam itself is an enemy of the U.S. — and has tentacles at every level of government.
Correlation is not causation, but a major uptick in hate crimes dates back toward the end of 2015, when Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
The sit-in's chief goal is a political gimmick that would do little to stop gun violence, while expanding the use of a deeply flawed anti-terror watchlist.
If you want to bar someone from buying a gun, go to court and present evidence that the accused is bad.
The Democrats' chief goal – to block those on the federal government’s terrorist watch list from buying guns – is opposed by some of their traditional allies.
On social networks, Donald Trump's fearmongering address in Cleveland won over nativists, but alienated many others.
Trump’s extremism does not entitle Clinton to waltz into power without serious scrutiny.
What it’s like to watch Donald Trump wage a war on Islam, live from the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and now a Trump supporter, is convinced the nation is facing a potential existential threat: a rising tide of radical Islam.
The move amounts to a strong endorsement of a system that civil liberties advocates have called a “Kafkaesque bureaucracy.”
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