Notable Publications

Hatewatch (selections from 2019-2025)

Neo-Nazi Order member released from prison after radicalizing terrorist group (with Jeff Tischauser)
In Rural Pennsylvania, Extremists Declare ‘Victory is Ours’
What We Know About the VDARE Legal Situation That They Say ‘Finished’ Them
How a Mainstream Racist Group Revived the Terroristic Tome ‘Siege’ (with Spencer Sunshine)
Hosting Company Used by Extremists Received $3 Million in Bitcoin After 2021 Hack (with Megan Squire)
How a Whites-Only Group Plans To Turn Rural Tennessee Into Its Homeland (with Alon Milwicki and R.G. Cravens)
White Nationalists, Other Republicans Brace for ‘Total War’ (with Michael Edison Hayden)
“Unite the Right” 5 Years Later: Where Are They Now? (with Michael Edison Hayden, Cassie Miller, Megan Squire, and Jason Wilson)
Presumed Proud Boys Attack Protesters Outside White Nationalist Conference (with Jason Wilson)
Far-Right Extremism and Gun Violence: Reimagining Prevention
White Nationalist Conference Lists Former Congressman and Current GOP Congressional Candidate as Speakers
White Nationalist Book Publishers Revealed (with Megan Squire, Jason Wilson, and Michael Edison Hayden)
Former Marine Collaborates with Violent White Nationalist (with Michael Colborne and Jason Wilson)
Media2Rise Propagandist Identified as Montana Neo-Nazi (with Jason Wilson)
Waukesha GOP Chair Praises Extremist’s Propaganda Efforts
Leaked Data Shows Epik Registered Site Associated With Neo-Nazi Terror
Infowars Bought Domain Named After Terrorist (co-bylined with Michael Edison Hayden and Megan Squire)
Leaked Chats, Documents Show Atomwaffen Founder’s Path to Terror Plot (with Jason Wilson)
Inside the Far-right Podcast Ecosystem (co-bylined with Megan Squire)
Meet the White Nationalist Organizer Who Spewed Hate Against Lawmakers
Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends on the Far-Right’s Fringe Have Become Mainstream (co-bylined with Cassie Miller)
Far-Right Extremists Gather in Florida for CPAC Spinoff Alongside Sitting Congressman
White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature
Extremists are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website (co-bylined with Michael Edison Hayden)
White Nationalist Group Posed as VICE Reporters While Identifying D.C. Protesters (with Michael Edison Hayden)
White Nationalists Sought Resumes for Trump White House, Emails Show (with Michael Edison Hayden)
Emails Reveal Former Conservative Insider Kevin DeAnna as Longtime White Nationalist Propagandist (Series landing page)

The Forum

The Origins of Specious

The Daily Beast

We Went to a Christmas Party at a White Nationalist Castle

Splinter

Leaked Emails Show How White Nationalists Have Infiltrated Conservative Media

New Republic

A New “War on Terrorism” Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists
The Alt-Right Doesn’t Know What to Do With White Women
What the Alt-Right Leaned From the Left

Jewish Currents

The Making of Andy Ngo

Political Research Associates (The Public Eye)

In Search of the Russian Soul

The Baffler (selections)

When the Party’s Over
Psychic Healing at the End of History
Rites of Power
Cold War Fever
Juggalos, Nevertheless Persisting

Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?
White Nationalism’s New Clothes
Dilbert’s Revenge
From a Darling of White Supremacists, a Shrug and a “Who, Me?”
Trump’s Willing Scholars
Outcast No More

The Outline

Disinformation is a two-way street
Morgan Freeman, David Frum, and the no-good non-profit
Apocalyptic thinking in the age of Trump

Gizmodo

What the U.S. Should Have Learned From the 2016 Election

Pacific Standard

North Korea’s Rising Video Bloggers
Chernobyl in Spring

Newsweek

Cucking and Nazi Salutes: Night Out With the Alt-Right (reprinted from The Washington Spectator)
The Unashamed Racists Backing Trump All the Way (reprinted from The Washington Spectator)

LobeLog

Trump’s Muddled Russia Policy
Rex Tillerson and the Russia File
Trump: An Opportunity for Russia?
Think Tanks Beg: Give Us War
Biden’s Iraq War Throwback
Russia: Goodbye, Levada?

Washington Spectator (selections)

A Beer Hall Putsch in an Italian Restaurant
White Power Meets Business Casual

Al Jazeera America

Pope Francis questions American exceptionalism
Nemtsov killing casts a shadow over Russia’s free press (coauthor)
Anonymity helps us curate our online selves
Saudi Arabia gets MOOC’d up
Is the developing world ‘MOOC’d out’?

Commonweal Magazine

Out of Ashes (book review)