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Swipe Far Right: Inside The Global Dating Network For White Nationalists

A German woman’s vision of “racial purity” has grown into an international platform linking neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists, and white nationalists in search of partners.

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Ideas Society

Hatred As Resistance? The Politics Of Legitimate Emotion

Is it possible to think about hatred in terms that do not reject it outright? Are there groups in society who are allowed to hate and others who are not? These are questions fundamental to today’s politics of resistance.

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Society

Fakulteta Postcard: Desolation And Beauty Inside Europe’s Largest Roma Ghetto

In Bulgaria, Roma people are the second-largest minority group, but their community goes largely ignored by politicians as hatred and prejudice grows against them. Italy’s daily La Stampa visits Fakulteta, where 45,000 Roma people live, mostly segregated from the rest of the country.

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Ideas Trump And The World

Donald Trump, The Fear Candidate

WASHINGTON — These are anxious times in America. Despite a steadily, if slowly, growing economy and the absence of a major war, people remain troubled by a sense of national underperformance and myriad social ills, most recently the surge in racially tinged fatal shootings committed by law enforcement officers and against them. A new Gallup poll reports that only 17% of Americans feel satisfied with the way things are going, the lowest percentage since October 2013 — and down 12 points in just the past month. For many, of course, a cause of concern is Donald Trump, who accepted the […]

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Society Terror in Europe

Here’s A Radical Idea: Social Injustice Is To Blame For Jihad

Why do we refuse to admit that discrimination and poverty help the spread of Islamic fanaticism? Understanding is not justifying, explaining is not forgiving.

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