Extremism in America

This five-part series, produced in collaboration with The WNET Group’s reporting initiative Exploring Hate, looks at the roots and rise of hate in America and across the globe.

Emergence of the Order

After Alan Berg, a Jewish talk show host, was shot to death in 1984, federal investigators scrutinized The Order, a white supremacist group, and went after the leaders on charges of sedition, hoping to dismantle the radical militia movement from the top down. This video looks at how and why they failed.

The Oklahoma City Bombing

Anti-government propaganda, military deployment and the F.B.I. raid in Waco, Texas, radicalized Timothy McVeigh and led to the Oklahoma City attack.

Missed Warnings

The night Barack Obama won his first presidential election, a Black church in Springfield, Mass., was burned, exposing the nation’s deep racial divisions.

A Surge in Violence

During the 2010s, violent attacks by white supremacists and other extremists increased, including shootings at a church in Charleston, S.C., and a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Out of the Shadows

According to experts who monitor the radical right, the white supremacist ideology that police say drove the Buffalo gunman has begun moving from the extremes into the mainstream.