Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Eleanor J. Bader

Eleanor J. Bader [she/her] is a Brooklyn, NY-based freelance reporter who writes about books, art, education, housing and homelessness, the domestic right-wing, and poverty for publications including Truthout, Truthdig, The Progressive, Lilith, The Indypendent and Ms. magazine.

Articles

Religion Dispatches

The Anti-Defamation League Was Never Progressive — It Was Never Meant To Be

An interview with Emmaia Gelman, author of "The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State."
Writer-activist-teacher Emmaia Gelman ’s fascinating history of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a more than 100-year-old organization founded by German Jewish immigrants to the United States…
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Report
ADL director Abe Foxman hands an award to George W. Bush
Public Eye

White Nationalism Comes to Town

Author Q&A with Michael Edison Hayden on Strange People on the Hill
Eleanor Bader speaks with Michael Edison Hayden, author of Strange People on the Hill, about rising White nationalism, community resistance, and the mental toll of researching the Far Right.
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Q&A
a statue of a roaring lion in front of a stone sign reading "berkeley castle"
Political Research Associates

A Conspiratorial Life

Author Q&A with Edward H. Miller
Eleanor Bader talks with author Edward H. Miller about his book A Conspiratorial Life and the history and influence of Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.
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Q&A
A drawing of the globe with a warped perspective to enlarge a red and sickle covered USSR.