Last summer, after attempting to sue us with a fake lawyer (which she still denies doing), Caitlin Johnstone published a series of articles that caused a firestorm on the far left. In them, she argued that the left needed to ally with alt-right figurehead Mike Cernovich to take ...read more
The Banter Long Read: There's a virus rapidly overtaking the Republican Party. It's called Trumpism, and it's killing the party. Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly satisfied to see the current Trump-dominated GOP commit slow motion suicide, (hopefully) to be replaced by a party ...read more
To the GOP, Congratulations on your first lesson in karma in the era of Donald Trump! It has been a long time coming, but you've finally been made to feel the consequences of your allegiance to a bonafide lunatic who has no business being in the White House. The stunning ...read more
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist/neo-Nazi/alt-right activist who was previously seen holding a tiki torch in Charlottesville, held a gathering yesterday at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The University had no responsibility for the event, as Spencer rented the ...read more
Breitbart.com doe not publish overtly racist or misogynistic content. Its staff of Alt-Right 'journalists' are too clever to get caught blatantly insulting women or black people. But they know exactly how to cater to the audience of the white supremacist bros who log on and read ...read more
Well that didn't take long. Fresh from his embarrassing removal from Trump's reality show of a presidential administration, Steve Bannon is back doing what he does best: defending the indefensible and promoting intellectual white nationalism. In an excerpt of a “60 Minutes” ...read more
Along with many other black writers across the country, I have made former presidential candidate and now HUD Secretary Ben Carson the object of my disappointment in aligning himself with Donald Trump. Carson has been rightfully skewered for his ignorant political views and ...read more
On Sunday 4th, October 1936, my Jewish grandfather took to the streets of the East End in London and went to fight fascists marching through his neighborhood. The Battle of Cable Street was a defining moment in British history when domestic fascism was beaten back and London ...read more
Apparently it was our lack of hospitality that caused all the death and injury in Charlottesville. As progressives, we need to take this to heart and promise to do better in the future. After all, the Nazis and a motley crew of their KKK, alt-right, and skinhead friends are ...read more
The Trump administration's first week in office has been so surreally bad that it is becoming impossible to accurately describe just how appalling their actions are. Adding to his list of executive orders and policy proposals designed to roll back civil liberties, wreck the ...read more
A heavily armed troop of Neo-Nazis are goose-stepping around the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed. Members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement are patrolling Sanford, Florida proclaiming they’re prepared for violence in case of a race riot, its commander ...read more