How does a progressive young person go down the rabbit hole of the alt-right to embrace an ideology of hate? Samantha insists that she wasn’t a racist—she had once canvassed for Barack Obama, after all—but soon after joining the organization Identity Evropa she found herself rubbing shoulders with the neo-Nazi organizer Richard Spencer and chanting “Sieg heil.” When she left the group, she contacted the reporter Andrew Marantz to tell her story. Plus, Sarah Paulson talks about her role as star of the new Netflix series “Ratched,” which imagines the origin story of the great antihero Nurse Ratched, from Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Sarah Paulson, the Star of Netflix’s “Ratched”
The actor takes on the origin story of Nurse Ratched, from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Samantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back
How did one woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? A former white nationalist explains how she got in, and out, of the movement.
