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  1. the far-right
    Virginia Gov. Declares State of Emergency Before Pro-Gun Rally in RichmondTaking no chances after Charlottesville, Gov. Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of Lobby Day, which has attracted far-right demonstrators.
    By Matt Stieb
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    Stephen Miller Sure Seems Like a White NationalistLeaked emails show that Miller is immersed in the alt-right.
    By Sarah Jones
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    Report: The Church Really Doesn’t Want Steve Bannon’s Alt-Right Academy in ItalyA top cardinal warned Bannon not to set up his “gladiator school for culture warriors” in a 13th-century monastery.
    By Matt Stieb
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    YouTube Bans Hate Group Founder Gavin McInnes for … ‘Copyright Infringement’McInnes had already been de-platformed by all other major social-media companies.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Trump Echoes Neo-Nazi Propaganda About South Africa (That He Heard on Fox News)Data show there is no “large scale” killing of white farmers in South Africa. But the alt-right, neo-Nazis – and now, the U.S. president – disagree.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Study: 24 Million White Americans Have Alt-Right Beliefs. What’s That Mean?A new study suggests that 12 percent of white Americans pass a test for adherence to white identity politics. That’s a lot of people.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. DI Politics Chat: Kanye Goes MAGAFour New York staffers talk about Kanye West’s full-throated endorsement of the Donald Trump and alt-right turn.
    By Ezekiel Kweku, Dee Lockett, and Max Read
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    Kanye West, Galaxy BrainLet’s unpack what Kanye West’s been doing on Twitter, rubbing elbows with the far right.
    By Brian Feldman
  9. We’re About to Find Out If Bannonism Is a ThingThe Breitbart chairman has a chance to trade pro-Trump sycophancy for an ideologically coherent brand of far-right populism.
    By Eric Levitz
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    The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only WorseA new conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has taken the grimiest parts of the internet by, well, storm.
    By Paris Martineau
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    Sam Seder’s Firing Shows Corporations Can’t Stop Getting Rolled by the Far RightIt’s just the latest example proving that since corporations have no idea how far-right outrage works, they will grant it victory after victory.
    By Jesse Singal
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    4channers Are Eating Onions to Be More ManlySoy Boys, Onion Lads, and 4chan’s never-ending quest for testosterone.
    By Paris Martineau
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    Twitter Is Un-Verifying Alt-Right AccountsLaura Loomer, Richard Spencer, and Jason Kessler have all lost their blue check marks.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  14. There Have Been So Many Bad Lefty Free-Speech Takes LatelyJust because the right and the alt-right make silly, hypocritical arguments about free speech doesn’t mean those on the left should follow suit.
    By Jesse Singal
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    This Might Be the Most Insane and Depressing Fake-News Story YetNo, Columbia students didn’t march in open defense of pedophilia. Yes, tens of thousands of people — at least — thought they did.
    By Jesse Singal
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    This YouTuber Is Figuring Out How to Counter the Right’s Dominance of the SiteContraPoints’s videos are funny, gonzo, and smart — and follow a format specifically designed to fight the far right’s dominance of YouTube.
    By Jesse Singal
  17. Bannon’s Populist ‘New Right’ Pretty Similar to the 1970s New RightThere were right-wing nationalist/populist culture warriors battling the Republican Establishment in the ’70s, too. Some of them are still around.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. The Republican Roots of TrumpismJonathan Chait interviews conservative former talk-radio host Charlie Sykes on the rise of Donald Trump.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    4 Key Takeaways From the Monster Milo Yiannopoulos Document LeakA distressing number of journalists tipped off Yiannopoulos during his Breitbart days.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Pepe’s Creator Is on a Legal Crusade to Take the Frog Away From the Alt-RightPepe strikes back.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Tens of Thousands March Against Hatred and White Supremacy in BostonBoston’s police commissioner applauded how 99.9 percent of the roughly 40,000 protesters were “standing tall against hatred and bigotry in our city.”
    By Chas Danner
  22. Alt-Right Organizers Cancel the March on Google, Citing ‘Terrorist Threats’The planned defense of a fired Google employee and his sexist memo is off, for now.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. Trump Says ‘Alt-Left’ Deserves Blame for Violence in CharlottesvilleThe president condemned “neo-Nazis” and white supremacists — but defended the right-wing protesters who simply wanted to preserve their history.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. Richard Spencer’s Domestic Press ConferenceSpeaking to the media from the suburban D.C. apartment he calls an office, the white nationalist had some thoughts on the White House.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  25. Yikes: Alt-Right Demonstrations Are Scheduled for Nine Cities Next WeekendUpdate: Organizers have announced the cancellation of the marches, citing ‘Terrorist Threats’
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. How the GOP Can Prove It Isn’t a Party for White SupremacistsRepublicans need to do a lot more than say the right words about Nazis to atone for their role in the revival of the racist right.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Things President Trump Has Condemned Other Than White NationalistsThe president declined to condemn white nationalists on Saturday, but he’s sure summoned the will to condemn just about everything else.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  28. White Nationalists March on UVA Ahead of Saturday RallyAn inauspicious beginning to the weekend.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Steve Bannon Learned How to Use Gamer Rage Via Gold Farming in World of WarcraftHow the “rootless white males” of World of Warcraft once inspired the White House chief strategist.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Where Did the Alt-Right Come From? This Book Finds Some Uncomfortable AnswersAngela Nagle’s Kill All Normies is among the best examinations of the origins of the alt-right.
    By Park MacDougald
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    The Online Radicalization We’re Not Talking About“Red-pilling” is radicalizing by another name.
    By Alice Marwick and Becca Lewis
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    Chuck Johnson’s WeSearchr Is Having a Bit of a MeltdownWith Chuck Johnson and Pax Dickinson parting ways, it’s worth asking: Who’s funding all this ultraright content?
    By Jesse Singal
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    The French Don’t Get the Alt-Right’s MemesEven the country that loves Jerry Lewis doesn’t get the alt-right.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Whole World Is Now a Message BoardAnd its moderators are the meme vanguard of the alt-right.
    By Max Read
  35. the new far right
    Andrew Sullivan: Why the Reactionary Right Must Be Taken SeriouslyAn open-minded inquiry into the close-minded ideology that is the most dominant political force of our time — and can no longer be ignored.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  36. the new far right
    Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow Talks About Covering His Old Boss“We don’t have to be hysterical or outraged as often because our agenda is mostly getting implemented.”
    By Gabriel Sherman
  37. the new far right
    The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New RightHow Steve Sailer went from pariah to prophet.
    By Park MacDougald and Jason Willick
  38. the new far right
    Fourteen Scholars Discuss the Roots of the Trump Movement and Reactionary RageMichael Eric Dyson, Leon Wieseltier, and 12 other thinkers discuss the reactionary surge and the rise of the alt-right.
    By The Editors
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    The Techno-Libertarians Praying for DystopiaThe terrifying future of Dark Transhumanism.
    By Mark O’Connell
  40. the new far right
    Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far RightThe extremely reactionary, burn-it-down-radical, newfangled far right.
    By Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, and Max Read
  41. alt-right
    Why Richard Spencer Wants to Ban Football“If I could wave a magic wand, I would absolutely,” the self-avowed white nationalist told a crowd at Auburn U.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  42. The Alt-Right Is Debating Whether Bannon Needs a Better Press Strategy“He has a lot of friends out on the internet who love him, but we are all still waiting for him to unleash the beast.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  43. ideology
    The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-RightTen years later, the case looms large in U.S. political culture. For starters, it launched the careers of Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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    It Makes Perfect Sense for the Alt-Right to Start Abandoning TrumpThe alt-right benefits greatly from adopting the stance of an outsider. Trump is no longer an outsider, as his Syria decision helps to demonstrate.
    By Jesse Singal
  45. After Trump’s Syria Air Strikes, the Alt-Right Is Not Alright“I guess Trump wasn’t ‘Putin’s puppet’ after all, he was just another deep state/Neo-Con puppet.”
    By Eric Levitz
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    The Alt-Right Took Over Twitter Through the Sheer Force of Its ObsessivenessA new story about one of the leading pro-Trump Twitter figures shows that it’s hard work being a #MAGA troll.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Why the White House Is Boosting Mike CernovichThe White House wants to fuzz the boundaries between mainstream, respectable news outlets and utterly gonzo ones as much as possible.
    By Jesse Singal
  48. White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets Federal Subsidies for Cotton FarmAccording to a report in Mother Jones, the alt-right figure may pay for his lifestyle through an income from a cotton farm.
    By Jen Kirby
  49. Why the Alt-Center Is a Problem, TooCentrist liberals who grossly misrepresent the views of their left-wing critics are sowing unnecessary divisions in the anti-Trump movement.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. Trump Manages to Denounce Rise of Anti-Semitic Incidents Without Taking OffenseFinally abandoning a habit of attacking reporters who asked him about anti-Semitic incidents, Trump simply addressed the subject appropriately.
    By Ed Kilgore
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