Far-right Proud Boys regularly carry handguns and other groups have adopted less lethal weaponsA gunfight in Portland, Oregon, last week is intensifying concerns over escalating violence during contentious rallies in the city, as far-right demonstrator…
Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet? | Kate Aronoff
Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answersWhat the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report confirmed this month is that the stable climate many of us grew up with is gone and has been replaced by a fu…
Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence
Running street battle ends in gunfight after ‘Summer of love’ protest in a parking lot of a former Kmart store A rightwing protest in Portland on Sunday has culminated in a gunfight, when antifascist demonstrators returned fire at a man who shot at the…
The Guardian view on Poland’s hot political summer: changing weather | Editorial
The Law and Justice party’s authoritarian grip on the country’s politics has been weakenedAt a glance, it has been business as usual this summer for Poland’s conservative-nationalist government. There has been a fierce row over attempts to introduce a …
Paul Mason: ‘Modern fascism’s interests are being represented in government by rightwing populists’
The former Channel 4 News broadcaster on writing at 4am, reading Carlo Rovelli and the danger posed by the new wave of fascism that’s on the rise across the worldPaul Mason was born in Lancashire in 1960, the son of a headmistress and a lorry driver. H…
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
‘A nightmare scenario’: how an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets
Misinformation about Wi Spa, a Korean spa in Los Angeles, quickly spread around the world. Since then, trans women in LA have faced violence and online abuseOn 24 June, a woman claimed on Instagram that a Korean spa in Los Angeles had allowed a “man” t…