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An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York

Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer. Read the rest of this post on the original

On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Americans Strongly Dislike PC

When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics

COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s right-wing government might once have expected pushback from the left-wing opposition when it introduced a controversial new integration policy. No longer. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Danish left veering right on immigration

Downloadable ‘zine format here. (PDF, 425kb) Truly, there are stains that it is beyond the power of man to wipe out and that can never be fully expiated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Zine: Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective

BOTTROP, Germany — Guido Reil is a coal miner, like his father and grandfather before him. He joined a trade union at 18 and the center-left Social Democratic Party at 20. Fast-talking and loud, he has been an elected union representative for over a decade. Read the rest of this

During the Weimar Republic, popular anxieties about the state of society became focused on a field of problems in which youth, political radicalism and a general brutalisation of social and political relations were assumed to be directly linked with one another in peculiarly threatening ways. Read the rest of this

My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Reality has a surprising amount of

Anastasia Yankova, a Russian model-turned-mixed martial artist who has appeared in a Nike commercial, was a month away from her professional debut when she took to Instagram to post a cartoon of Adolph Hitler. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Terrifying Rise of Alt-Right

There’s an apparent paradox in modern life: Society as a whole is getting smarter, yet we aren’t any closer to figuring out how to all get along. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study

When this commentary was broadcast at the beginning of my radio show at noon, Pacific time, December 21, bitcoin was trading at about $15,600. It had a bad Friday, losing almost a quarter of its value, bottoming out at $11,858, before recovering to $14,267 as I’m posting this. Read the