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Arthur Goldwag

Arthur Goldwag is the author, most recently, of "The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right"

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Here come the Paris truthers: Paranoia, the American right, and the missing complexity from our terrorism debate

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This is why they have such hate: Coulter, Trump, Carson and the real history behind right-wing intolerance

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Roger Ebert (Wikipedia)

Roger Ebert was right: Free speech, Twitter and the Holocaust denier protected by the University of Illinois

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Ted Cruz, Jenny McCarthy, Alex Jones (AP/Rick Bowmer/Reuters/Fred Prouser/Jim Bourg/Salon)

Benghazi nuts, anti-vaxxers, birthers: Do they really buy their own nonsense?

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Seething hate even Fox News can’t deny: Cliven Bundy is not an outlier

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Conspiracy theories explain the right

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Fear and loathing in campaign 2012

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Colonel Edward M. House and Barack Obama (Wikipedia/AP)

The century-old novel right-wingers believe guides Obama

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Bill O'Reilly, Dr. Judith Reisman and Rush Limbaugh (AP/<a href="http://www.drjudithreisman.com/photos.html">drjudithreisman.com</a>)

The right wing’s pornography of resentment

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