For Mike Dukakis, there is a sickening familiarity to being on the receiving end of a blast of finger-burning attacks on hot emotional issues. He told reporters, "It's Ed King all over again." Since the Republican National Convention, Vice President George Bush has...

The terrorist attacks have allowed hate groups to resuscitate their recruiting after several years of flagging efforts. The membership slowdown for paramilitary and skinhead groups following the Oklahoma bombing seems to have been reversed in a new surge of nationalism. Both the...

Huge street protests made millions of immigrants more visible and powerful last year, but they also seem to have revived a hateful counter force: white supremacists.Groups linked to the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis grew significantly more active, holding more rallies, distributing leaflets and...

A Changed Man, by Francine Prose. HarperCollins, 421 pages, $24.95. "What did the blind man say the first time he touched a matzoh?" (Beat.) "Who wrote this shit?" Ba-da-bing! It's never a bad sign when a novelist feels expansive enough to toss a couple of...

“If you join a pro-white group that promotes the history, heritage, or culture of the white race, you are given thumbs down and called a hater and a racist.” —Charles Lee, Grand Dragon of the Knights of the White Kamellia, Ku Klux...