Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How 90s right-wing extremism echoes in today's politics
Janet Reno, the nation’s first female attorney general, died this morning from complications of Parkinson's Disease. Her eight-year tenure in Bill Clinton’s administration was marked by a number of instances of right-wing white extremism, like the Oklahoma City bombing and rise of the Unabomber.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readJanet Reno, the nation’s first female attorney general, died this morning from complications of Parkinson's Disease. Her eight-year tenure in Bill Clinton’s administration was marked by a number of instances of right-wing white extremism, like the Oklahoma City bombing and rise of the Unabomber. Those events revealed a deep anger and divide along political lines -- not unlike what we see today.
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