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How Bannon turned on Trump … and where the nationalist right goes next

Jan 13, 2018
8 min

How Bannon turned on Trump … and where the nationalist right goes next

The ex-White House strategist who turned his fire and fury on the president is now out at Breitbart too. Those in the know, though, say he isn’t finished yet By David Smith and Ben Jacobs in Washington | The Guardian | January 13, 2018 Asnow shower had left Washington speckled in white. Steve Bannon, known for his shabby dress code, entered the five-star Hay-Adams hotel, a short walk from the White House, and delivered a speech to what one observer later dismissively called “

Q&A: What are Trump and the White House’s links to the far right?

Aug 14, 2017
5 min

Q&A: What are Trump and the White House’s links to the far right?

We break down how the White House, Breitbart News, Steve Bannon and Trump’s cabinet are all connected to recent events in Charlottesville By David Smith in Washington DC | The Guardian |Monday 14 August 2017 Has the White House been fanning the flames of white supremacy in America? Activists say so. A group of civil rights and faith leaders called on Donald Trump to directly disavow the white supremacists marching in Charlottesville on Saturday and fire White House chief stra

Europe’s governments signal relief after Dutch election defeats far right

Mar 16, 2017
5 min

Europe’s governments signal relief after Dutch election defeats far right

Geert Wilders loss in Netherlands hailed by leaders as key moment for tolerant societies and serious politics on continent By Jon Henley in The Hague / The Guardian / Thursday 16 March 2017 12.07 EDT European governments facing a rising tide of populism heaved a collective sigh of relief after the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, swept aside the challenge of the anti-Islam, anti-EU, populist. Geert Wilders, in the parliamentary elections. Angela Merkel was among many EU lead

How Trump’s White House Is Delegitimizing Anything That Could Get In The Way Of Its Propaganda

Mar 9, 2017
7 min

How Trump’s White House Is Delegitimizing Anything That Could Get In The Way Of Its Propaganda

After years of posturing about repealing Obamacare — with scores of votes but no consensus plan to replace it — House Republicans finally released their bill to reshape the health insurance market on Monday. By Matt Gertz / Senior Fellow at Media Matters / March 9, 2017 After years of posturing about repealing Obamacare — with scores of votes but no consensus plan to replace it — House Republicans finally released their bill to reshape the health insurance market on Monday. P

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden slams pro-Trump media for peddling ‘illegitimate’ and

Mar 7, 2017
2 min

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden slams pro-Trump media for peddling ‘illegitimate’ and

“I think the Breitbart and the likes are off the chart in terms of shaping data to meet the preconceptions.” By Oliver Darcy / Business Insider / March 7, 2017 Former CIA Director Michael Hayden on Monday criticized the pro-Donald Trump bloc of conservative media for advancing what he deemed to be an “illegitimate” world view. “There are some outlets that have incredibly powerful lenses by which they view the facts they collect,” Hayden told Business Insider in a sit-down int

Wiretapping allegations reignite Trump and Obama’s feud

Mar 5, 2017
5 min

Wiretapping allegations reignite Trump and Obama’s feud

The 45th president and his predecessor had seemed to have put past controversies behind them. Now a series of early-morning tweets about a ‘new Watergate’ have reawakened their enmity By Edward Helmore / The Guardian / Saturday 4 March 2017 14.55 EST Saturday’s extraordinary attack by President Trump on his predecessor should come as little surprise in at least one respect. It proves, for anyone in any doubt, the depth of hatred between the two men: a discord that has bubbled

Donald Trump returns in triumph to CPAC – with Breitbart as supporting cast

Feb 23, 2017
3 min

Donald Trump returns in triumph to CPAC – with Breitbart as supporting cast

Six years after he was loudly booed there, Trump will take the main stage as the Republican president with some new allies at the conservative confab By Ben Jacobs in Washington / The Guardian / Thursday 23 February 2017 07.00 EST When Donald Trump first spoke at the largest annual gathering of conservative grassroots activists, he was loudly booed for taking a shot at one of their heroes. The room erupted in jeers when Trump, in 2011, told the conservative political action c

Donald Trump has turned evading responsibility into an art form

Feb 16, 2017
3 min

Donald Trump has turned evading responsibility into an art form

The reaction to the fall of National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn is just the latest example of Trump passing the buck – and not acting like a leader By Austin Sarat / The Guardian / February 16, 2017 President Harry S Truman famously adorned his oval office desk with a sign that read: “The Buck Stops Here.” This sign was Truman’s way of signaling that he would accept personal responsibility for the decisions he made and for the consequences of those decisions. He u

How Richard Spencer’s hometown weathered a neo-Nazi ‘troll storm’

Feb 5, 2017
13 min

How Richard Spencer’s hometown weathered a neo-Nazi ‘troll storm’

An onslaught of antisemitic harassment descended upon the residents of Whitefish, a small Montana ski town, for taking a stand against the ‘alt-right’ racist in their midst. Then came the threat of a 200-person armed march by Lois Beckett in Whitefish, Montana / The Guardian / February 5, 2017 On a bitterly cold afternoon, the residents of a Montana ski town waited to see if armed neo-Nazis would show up to march through their streets. Whitefish, a tiny town of 7,000 people,

How war on Islam became central to the Trump doctrine

Feb 3, 2017
10 min

How war on Islam became central to the Trump doctrine

An apocalyptic view of Islamist terrorism is the thread that connects key figures in the Trump administration and underpins this weekend’s immigration chaos. But is their ramped-up rhetoric just giving terrorists what they want? By David Shariatmadari / The Guardian / Monday 30 January 2017 12.38 EST It was the moment the world sat up and started to take notice of the US presidential campaign. Donald Trump had made headlines before, in June 2015, when he had called for a “gre

Questions mount over botched Yemen raid approved by Trump

Feb 2, 2017
3 min

Questions mount over botched Yemen raid approved by Trump

US military officials say Trump approved counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence or ground support By Ewen MacAskill, Spencer Ackerman and Jason Burke / The Guardian / February 2, 2017 The US military has launched an investigation into the scale of civilian casualties in a botched special forces raid against a suspected al-Qaida base in Yemen, the first such mission to be approved by Donald Trump, as questions mount over the operation. After initially denyi

The Dark History of the White House Aides Who Crafted Trump’s “Muslim Ban”

Jan 31, 2017
3 min

The Dark History of the White House Aides Who Crafted Trump’s “Muslim Ban”

Here’s how Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller have been boosters of Islamophobes and white nationalists. JOSH HARKINSON /Mother Jones – JAN. 30, 2017 5:20 PM The Trump administration has insisted since Sunday that the president’s executive order banning travel to the United States from seven predominately Islamic countries “is not a Muslim ban.” But as Mother Jones first reported in a series of investigations starting last summer, the two top Trump advisers who reportedly craf

Inside the confusion of the Trump executive order and travel ban

Jan 30, 2017
5 min

Inside the confusion of the Trump executive order and travel ban

By Evan Perez, Pamela Brown and Kevin Liptak, CNN / Updated 1:21 PM ET, Sun January 29, 2017 Washington (CNN) When President Donald Trump declared at the Pentagon Friday he was enacting strict new measures to prevent domestic terror attacks, there were few within his government who knew exactly what he meant. Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left

Trump gives National Security Council seat to ex-Breitbart chief Steve Bannon

Jan 29, 2017
3 min

Trump gives National Security Council seat to ex-Breitbart chief Steve Bannon

President also gives Priebus access to sensitive meetings while partially excluding defense chiefs and requesting strategies to defeat Isis Alan Yuhas/The Guardian – Saturday 28 January 2017 22.49 EST President Donald Trump granted controversial adviser Steve Bannon a regular seat at meetings of the National Security Council on Saturday, in a presidential memorandum that brought the former Breitbart publisher into some of the most sensitive meetings at the highest levels of g

The Divided States: Trump’s inauguration and how democracy has failed

Jan 13, 2017
17 min

The Divided States: Trump’s inauguration and how democracy has failed

Donald Trump and his demonisation of minorities are not the exception in US history – they are its logical conclusion. Pankaj Mishra examines the dream of the multiracial democracy, and America’s failure to realise it Pankaj Mishra: Friday, January 13, 2017 Never in human history have so many diverse peoples lived together as in our time. Nor has the appeal of democracy ever been so widespread. The promise of equal rights and citizenship held out by modern society has been un

Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories are a generation in the making

Dec 12, 2016
4 min

Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories are a generation in the making

Clinton’s supporters aren’t ‘sore losers,’ and Donald Trump’s way of working isn’t normal. The far right has spent years building opposition to her Jill Abramson; The Guardian December 6, 2016 Since Trump won the election, the focus on his fringe connections has largely receded. Coverage of the new administration has quickly normalized. Washington reporters seem relieved to be covering a familiar ritual, the competition for top jobs in the Trump administration. Stories on Tr

MEET ROBERT MERCER, THE MYSTERIOUS BILLIONAIRE BENEFACTOR OF BREITBART

Nov 29, 2016
9 min

MEET ROBERT MERCER, THE MYSTERIOUS BILLIONAIRE BENEFACTOR OF BREITBART

BY MAX KUTNER ON 11/21/16 AT 9:59 AM – Newsweek Updated | Robert Mercer seemed uncomfortable. It was 2014, and the billionaire had just stepped behind the podium to accept a lifetime achievement award at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dressed in a suit and tie, he warned his audience that speaking to them for the required hour or so was “more than I typically talk in a month” and that he was no longer in their field of work. “I left IBM R

We Are a Nation of Bullies

Mar 8, 2012
3 min

We Are a Nation of Bullies

David A. Love – Executive Director, Witness to Innocence Posted: 03/ 7/2012 5:30 pm Rush Limbaugh’s years of bullying may have finally caught up with him. His vicious attack on Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, was over the top even by Limbaugh’s standards. Calling the young woman a “slut” and a “prostitute” for supporting health insurance coverage for contraception has cost the on-air personality and full-time blowhard a number of advertisers, and many hope

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