Fascism 101

When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.

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The video the former president reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

MAGA Candidate

After last week the label seems not just acceptable, but necessary.

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r/Fuckthealtright: A subreddit dedicated to shitting on the racist, misogynist, antisemitic, adolescent clusterfuck known as the "Alt-Right".

When it comes to Donald Trump's slide towards the politics of authoritarianism, there is no longer any room for debate.

The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape America.

The New American Nazism American Nazism is sneaking into the mainstream. It marches across overpasses with shaved heads and covered faces. But how else does it appear? *This article includes …

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In Utah, protests that hinder the functioning of fossil fuel infrastructure could now lead to at least five years in prison. The new rules make Utah the

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The very public failure of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is raising concerns of a renewed wave of bank failures that threatens Western economies. The subtext is residual fear that the earlier (mid-2000’s) bank crisis was never adequately addressed. The very bankers who sank the banking system back then were handed trillions in public largesse to cover their losses, but the system of Wall Street provision of credit to fuel capitalism was never reconsidered. As then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner put it, ‘the US doesn’t do nationalization (of banks).’

The media’s framing of measures like Florida’s African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality

We must call out fascist behavior for exactly what it is, before it's too late.

Alex Ross on the scholars mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

The internet and social media are a type of experience machine.At their worst, the internet and social media function as a self-reinforcing echo chamber and closed episteme in which many people confuse huge amounts of free and otherwise readily available "information" and "content" with true knowled...

At various times during the pandemic Britons were advised to stay at home and limit outdoor exercise

The SCOTUS' approval rating is rock bottom and votes against the majority's interests—here's how one writer thinks we should respond.

The Right’s claims about the country aren’t just wrong, they’re often downright goofy. But conservatives' complete disconnect from reality is nowhere near enough to dislodge them from power.

It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary

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Jonah Goldberg tells us he wrote this book to get even.  The liberals started it by “insist[ing] that conservatism has connections with fascism” (p.  22).  Conservatives “sit dumbfounded by the nastiness of the slander” (p.  1).   “The left wields the term fascism like a cudgel” (p.  3).   So Jonah Goldberg has decided it is time to turn the tables and show that “the liberal closet has its own skeletons” (p.  22).   After years of being “called a fascist and a Nazi by smug, liberal know-nothings” he decides that “responding to this slander is a point of personal privilege” (p.  392).