The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity. By Laurie Penny.

‘How do you allow [in] people who explicitly say they are satanic doomsday cultists who infiltrate right-wing groups in order to press their agenda?’ one frustrated neo-Nazi asked. By Kelly Weill.

We’ve seen this movie before. By Robyn Pennacchia.

John Bolton named National Security Adviser. Replacing McMaster with Bolton puts the U.S. on a path to war. By Fred Kaplan.

Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart. By Gareth Porter. (Mar. 22, 2018)

While we have many problems in our media landscape, the most dangerous is how it is being weaponized to gaslight people. By Danah Boyd.

It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. By Pankaj Mishra.

Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape... By Nathan J. Robinson.

Bolton has long had President Trump’s ear. He might soon have a top job in his White House. By Zack Beauchamp.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slave-owning elite. By Blake Smith.

In March 1968, a student revolt crushed by Poland’s baton-wielding police was used as a pretext for an anti-Semitic purge by the communist regime. By Michel Viatteau.

Guardian US and WNYC’s On the Media collaborated on a radio episode looking the coverage of neo-Nazis and white nationalists. By Lois Beckett.

Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA. By Mark Ames. (Dec. 17, 2012)

Niece of far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen to address conference after vice-president Mike Pence on Thursday. By Angelique Chrisafis.

ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter’s ties to extremist groups. By Shawn Musgrave.

In states like North Carolina, splitting up county-wide school systems often results in unequal access to resources separated down racial lines. By Barry Yeoman.

Melvin Van Peebles

How Hitler and the Nazis came to power. By Richard J. Evans.

We watched the State of the Union so you wouldn’t have to. By Doktor Zoom.

This brings us back to the question posed whenever a production of The Merchant of Venice is mounted: is this an antisemitic play, or a play about antisemitism? Indeed, if we need Shylock’s ‘Hath not a Jew’ speech to remind us that Jews are, in fact, human too, then we are dealing with a much larger cultural problem that productions of The Merchant of Venice play into. By Gabriella Edelstein.