After Capitol riots, desperate families turn to groups that deprogram extremists
Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post
Feb. 5, 2021
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Chris Buckley, a war veteran and former Ku Klux Klan member, and Myrieme Churchill met in D.C. for the annual conference of Parents for Peace, a nonprofit that seeks to help others leave extremist ideologies.Photo courtesy of Parents for Peace.
Her brother couldn t make it to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but she worried that he would join a new insurrection - that one day he would be one of the people on TV.
The woman in her 30s asked her family to make plans, she said, hoping to keep her brother busy. Then she contacted a nonprofit called Parents for Peace that seeks to pull people back from extremism, hoping to save him, after years of dismay at his hatred of Muslims and Mexicans and now alarm at his anger over the presidential election.
From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
Feb. 2, 2021
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Hal Holbrook as Shylock in a 1999 production of The Merchant of Venice. Washington Post photo by Dudley M. Brooks
Back in the olden days when people sent handwritten letters through the mail, Hal Holbrook wrote a beautiful one to me. Actually, it wasn t all that long ago - Feb. 23, 2004, to be exact. But Holbrook, who died last week at age 95, was in every sense a gentleman of the old school, in manners, in love of performance, in devotion to his craft.
Coronavirus news from the Bay Area: Jan. 14-20
Chronicle Staff
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The Chronicle began covering the coronavirus crisis before the first cases were reported in the Bay Area and a pandemic was declared in 2020. We reorganized the newsroom to dedicate nearly every resource to stories focusing on the health and economic disasters. Every day we have published live updates to reflect the most critical local, national and global updates on COVID-19, and this news is free of charge in an effort to keep our community safe and informed.
Read the previous updates from Jan. 7-13
Read the next batch of updates for Jan. 21-27
The search for illegal ballots leads to some crazy places, mostly because it s a conspiracy theory with no basis in reality, but also because it s Texas! Via the Washingon Post:
An air-conditioning repairman was driving his truck through Houston in late October when a black SUV suddenly slammed into his tail. When he got out, the SUV’s driver leaped out and pointed a gun at his head, police said.
When police arrived, the gunman offered an incredible tale: The driver, he said, was the face of a vast election-fraud scheme and had about 750,000 fake ballots stuffed inside his truck.
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