‘American Reich’ explores rising hate crimes and the Blaze Bernstein murder

As Eric Lichtblau began research for a non-fiction book on the rise of hate crimes in the United States, he found that there was a seemingly unending array of horrific examples.

In 2022, a White supremacist shot and killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. That same year, a Colorado Springs man, inspired by other hate-inspired mass shootings, killed five patrons at an LGBTQ nightclub.

A few years earlier, 23 Hispanic people were shot and killed at an El Paso Walmart by a...