<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Responding to Violence
What We’re Following
Terror in Barcelona: At the tourist site Las Ramblas, a van was driven into a crowd of pedestrians, killing 13 and injuring 50. Spanish police arrested a suspect who has been identified as a Moroccan-born man, Driss Oukabir. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but not before President Trump described it as “terror” on Twitter—a rapid response that stands in direct contrast to his expressed reluctance to make a statement on the similar attack in Charlottesville without knowing the facts.
Though some in the alt-right have attempted to distance themselves from white supremacy, a new study of self-described members of other ethnic and religious groups. As American institutions to grapple with how to respond to such hate, for firing people with hateful beliefs without putting freedom of expression at risk.
