Romesh Ratnesar
Romesh Ratnesar writes editorials on education, economic opportunity and work for Bloomberg Opinion. He was deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and an editor and foreign correspondent for Time. He has served in the State Department, and is author of “Tear Down This Wall.”

The Big Question: Can the US Defuse Violent Right-Wing Extremism?

Romesh Ratnesar: The Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol was an alarming assault on American democracy. You served in the Obama administration and are now the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is at the forefront of monitoring and fighting hate groups and violent extremism. Did what…