A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.

A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.

A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.

The candidate lost badly in Florida but showed that there’s support for bigotry among the young.

The masked men in Washington on July 4 are both unserious and threatening.

The San Diego mosque killings were part ideological, part performance for an audience on Discord.

What the alleged Washington hotel attacker has in common with Luigi Mangione

What the alleged Washington hotel attacker has in common with Luigi Mangione

Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

The war sparked an epic social-media trolling contest.

Occasional reflections, mostly personal. Click to read Rickipedia, by Rick Perlstein, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far.

Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

An Atlantic reporter says far-right influencers such as Nick Fuentes offer clues to where US politics is going.

The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.

The Aryan utopia of “Agartha” is making a comeback.

Government social-media managers have turned official feeds into streams of xenophobia.

Where Charlie Kirk sought to smooth the divisions within the conservative movement, Nick Fuentes wants to inflame them.

The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.

A playlist of podcast moments

Nick Fuentes and his followers - Groypers - are working to push American conservatism and the MAGA movement into even more dangerous and reactionary territory. He started to gain a following in 2017 a...

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

Charlie Kirk’s death left a void on the right. Posobiec looks better positioned than anyone to fill it.

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

A zeitgeist update

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk