Trump's Useful Thugs
How the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys.
How the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys.
Brendan O'Connor Guardian Jan 2021 20min Permalink
Exploring the dark and far-reaching consequences of our dependence on the Internet.
Tom Scocca New York Review of Books Oct 2020 25min Permalink
A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.
Aaron Gell Medium May 2020 20min Permalink
A Washington family’s nightmare year.
Anonymous Washingtonian May 2019 25min Permalink
How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.
Luke O’Brien The Atlantic Nov 2017 40min Permalink
An hour-by-hour account of last weekend in Charlottesville.
Samantha Baars, Jackson Landers, Jessica Luck, Erin O’Hare, Lisa Provence, Susan Sorensen C-Ville Weekly Aug 2017 35min Permalink
How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?
Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 35min Permalink
The women of the alt-right.
Seyward Darby Harper's Aug 2017 25min Permalink
“Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.”
Graeme Wood The Atlantic May 2017 30min Permalink
"These young men seem to have no conception of the consequences of allying yourself publicly with the far right, even before their hero gets accused of endorsing pedophilia in public. Yiannopoulos has been good to them. They’re having a great time. Over the course of a few hours, I find myself playing an awkward Wendy to these lackluster lost boys as I watch them wrestle with the moral challenge of actually goddamn growing up."
Laurie Penny Pacific Standard Feb 2017 20min Permalink
How populism took a continent.
Sasha Polakow-Suransky The Guardian Nov 2016 30min Permalink
As the snow tires rumbled on the highway beneath us, a neo-Nazi "troll army" was several days into attacking the Jewish people of Whitefish on Spencer's behalf, based on a belief that some Whitefish Jews had recently tried to run Spencer and his mother out of town. Details about what actually happened between the town and the Spencers were in short supply, and, among the neo-Nazi troll brigades, anti-Semitism was in abundance.
Eli Sanders The Stranger Jan 2017 25min Permalink
The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...
Jacob Siegel Tablet Nov 2016 20min Permalink