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.
By Isaac Chotiner
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.
By Stephania Taladrid
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.
By Andrew Marantz
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.
By Eliza Griswold
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.
By Masha Gessen
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.
By Susan B. Glasser
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.
By Masha Gessen
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.
By Jelani Cobb
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.
By Jelani Cobb
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.
By Alexandra Schwartz
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.
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
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.
By John Cassidy