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Today, Mark Wahlberg is a successful actor and producer. He’s worked in many genres, including comedy, drama, and action.
While many know of Wahlberg's past as a rapper, some may not realize that before "Marky Mark," he went to jail for a hate crime in the 1980s. Wahlberg, then a teenage drug addict who dropped out of school, committed multiple racially motivated attacks and was...
In the late 1990s, the film American History X won critical acclaim and took Edward Norton’s career to the next level. Many people don’t know, though, that this film is based on a real former skinhead and criminal, Frank Meeink.
As a teenager, Meeink was sort of a spokesperson for the neo-Nazi movement until he went to prison for kidnapping and assault. During his time in...
Living through the last few months of this election cycle makes me think of REM’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.”
If you listen to the partisans on the cable networks, talk radio, or your X feed, you certainly believe that the world will never be the same if (Trump/Harris) is elected.
It’s very...
We can reverse the rise of extremism and hate, but only if we offer a path to redemption
Sep 24, 2024
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by Damien Patton
In the last decade, we’ve seen a troubling surge in the radicalization of minors online, leading to violent acts in cities across America, from ...
My first political memory is being with my parents at an election night watch party in Show Low, Arizona, in 1976. They had been supporters of Ronald Reagan against Gerald Ford in the primary but had united with the party against Gov. Jimmy Carter. When Carter was declared the winner, my mother started to cry and said...
