The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.
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WHITE SUPREMACY, MONUMENTS, AND POWER
He was filmed and photographed beating a black man, Deandre Harris, by what looks like the Village People of racists—one with a Nazi helmet, another like a construction, one in a polo, and another, like this guy, with beard and baseball hat.
WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COVERED (A #FIGHTSUPREMACY COMPOSITE RETROSPECT)
Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered…
HOW THE ‘FREE SPEECH’ RALLY ORGANIZERS AND THE BOSTON GLOBE GOT ME FALSELY BRANDED AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST
The panicked calls came from my friends and family—including my poor old mother, who was afraid I would be shot—right around the time that I arrived on Boston Common on Saturday.
THE UNION OF SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
I helped organize a suburban Mass Guitar Center. Here’s what I learned.
I SAW MORE FURRIES THAN FRIENDS OF THE FUHRER IN BOSTON THIS WEEKEND
Where were these nazis anyway? Where were they coming from? Did they take Uber?
‘I FEEL LIKE WE WERE STOOD UP’
Boston nazi hunt a major disappointment for many
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE GUY IN THE MAGA HAT WHO BROUGHT A FIREARM TO BOSTON COMMON?
That’s when the man in the MAGA hat took off, attempting to run from the cops, who chased after him. He was apprehended just a short distance away, police confiscating his firearm and taking him into custody.
ORGANIZERS BEHIND MASS STATE HOUSE RALLY SPEAK OUT
How a Boston demonstration first planned before Charlottesville answered the call to become something much, much bigger
WELCOME TO BOSTON, NOW GET OUT! (AN ALL-DAY ‘FREE SPEECH’ RALLY DISPATCH)
Counter-protesters chase ‘free speech’ rally goers out of town, but endure police aggression after peaceful march