Joe Sexton

Documenting Hate Reveals How Hate-Fueled Violence Has Become Routine

Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them.

Joe Sexton
By Joe Sexton
Willie Lawson paints over racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in Roseville, Calif. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations for yet another provocative missile test. The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling in the controversial travel ban case, said that people from the six largely Muslim countries covered by the immigration enforcement action could enter the

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The Cost Of Trump’s Wall Compared To The Programs He’s Proposing To Cut

America may get its border wall. It just might have to do without a lot else.

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By Joe Sexton
A protester dressed as a diabolical version of Uncle Sam holds a suitcase full of money at the U.S. border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. (AP/Christian Torres)

The fiscal 2018 price for President Trump's border wall is in: $2.6 billion. That's a cost to U.S. taxpayers, not a cost many people any longer think will be picked up by the Mexican government. As first installments go, it's a pretty big number. Indeed, its size can be appreciated in one powerful way by setting it against some of the many

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Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue Of Hate Crimes Against Whites

As Chicago authorities waited before filing hate-crime charges against four young adult blacks for an alleged attack on a white disabled man, the Internet raged.

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By Joe Sexton
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)

(ANALYSIS) --- The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults in Chicago in connection with the assault of a mentally disabled white man. The arrests by the Chicago Police Department resulted in part from what appeared to a livestreamed video

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