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White Nationalism

Q. & A.

The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.
Daily Comment

The Legacy of the El Paso Shooting

Four years after twenty-three people were murdered by a white nationalist, Texas Republicans continue to speak about an immigrant invasion.
Daily Comment

The World According to Tucker Carlson

Donald Trump had the raw power on the right. But it was Carlson who set the ideological agenda.
On Religion

A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism

How Doug Mastriano’s rise embodies the spread of a movement centered on the belief that God intended America to be a Christian nation.
The Political Scene Podcast

Samantha’s Journey Into the Alt-Right, and Back

How did a woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? A former white nationalist explains how she got in, and out, of the movement.
Our Columnists

The Weaponization of National Belonging, from Nazi Germany to Trump

By turning unspoken assumptions about outsiders into hateful rally chants, Donald Trump has initiated a radical renegotiation of what it means to belong in this country.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

“I’m Winning”: Donald Trump’s Calculated Racism

The President’s plan is for a political civil war, and it is working.
Our Columnists

Jacinda Ardern Has Rewritten the Script for How a Nation Grieves After a Terrorist Attack

New Zealand’s Prime Minister immediately showed that she had no time for the perpetrator of the mosque shootings and instead focussed the nation’s attention on what had been lost.
Daily Comment

The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery

The significance of what happened in Christchurch cannot be understood outside the context of rising global white nationalism.
Daily Comment

From Charleston to Pittsburgh, an Arc of Premeditated American Tragedy

The architects of these atrocities were both white men whose fury was amplified in the echo chamber of the Internet. They conceived of their actions as a form of self-defense.
Daily Comment

The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life

Anti-Semitism has burrowed into the American mainstream in a way not seen since the late nineteen-thirties and early nineteen-forties, when it also fused easily with conservative isolationist fervor and racism.
The Political Scene Podcast

In the Midterms, White Supremacy Is Running for Office

Candidates who once cloaked their views on white nationalism, like the Iowa congressman Steve King, are now talking about them openly and regularly.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

Kelela Reinvents R. & B., and Sally Yates Gets Fired

The singer talks about when it’s necessary to “kill the vibe” in a bad business meeting, and the veteran of the Justice Department describes her ten-day tenure in the Trump Administration.
Letter from Europe

The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us”

The European thinkers behind the white-nationalist rallying cry.
John Cassidy

Why Didn’t More C.E.O.s Have the Guts to Publicly Break with Trump?

Trump’s comments after Charlottesville made it increasingly difficult for executives on his advisory committees to use the “business is business” justification for dealing with him.