Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson is an Australian-born writer living in Portland, Oregon. He's on Twitter at @jason_a_w.
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Burst your bubble: five conservative articles examining Milo YiannopoulosSome weeks, it is not possible to highlight thoughtful conservative perspectives – but it is important to note the divergence in human values
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Australian politics has been remodelled. Hansonists are no longer outliersOne Nation’s assemblage of candidates are no less a grotesquerie than those who have come before. What has changed is the sea they swim in
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Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to explain who Trump has leftThis week, Trump lost people on the right who had been warming to him and forced a beleaguered band of conservative writers to explain themselves
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The death of Karen Batts: the homelessness case that shocked PortlandShe was discovered half-naked and dead in a freezing parking lot. What does her drift into homelessness tell us about how Oregon treats its neediest citizens?
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'Australia first' is opportunism – and politicians should be careful where it leadsScott Morrison’s echoing of Trump may have been an attempt to keep populism at bay but there is a clear danger in this type of rhetoric
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Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read during Trump's first weekRightwing commentators on the foreign policy implications of the president’s inaugural address, his likely line on the culture wars and even his mental health
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The weakening of the 'alt-right': how infighting and doxxing are taking a tollAs the far right movement has emerged from obscurity, it has also become a target, facing what Richard Spencer calls ‘a literal and figurative punch in the face’
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Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read ahead of the inaugurationRead what the voices on the right have to say before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States
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How can the left respond to the global resurgence of far-right populism?Far right movements have been successful globally by politicising hostility to immigrants and cultivating a resurgent ethnonationalism. The left can – and should – fight back
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So you want to get out of your bubble: try reading these conservative websitesIn the fragmented world of new media it is all too easy to experience only opinions we agree with. These titles can help liberal readers change that
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Gab: alt-right's social media alternative attracts users banned from TwitterThousands of people are reportedly on waitlist to join website that prominently features pro-Trump content, as founder insists Gab is not ‘Twitter for racists’
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Clickbait scoops and an engaged 'alt-right': everything to know about Breitbart NewsStephen Bannon, newly appointed chief strategist in the Trump administration, spent four years as executive chairman of Breitbart, a ‘platform for the alt-right’
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Fear and loathing on the streets: the Soldiers of Odin and the rise of anti-refugee vigilantesFar right groups are gaining a global foothold because they echo mainstream discourse which has shrunk the political horizon to issues of border paranoia, terror, and security
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Extremist militias recruiting in fear of Clinton winning election, activists sayExtremist surge got national attention during the Oregon militia standoff and has continued to rise with Trump, with his legitimization of white nationalist politics
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'Why wouldn't it go viral?' Clowns are unnerving and funny at the same timeBen Radford, the author of a new book, Bad Clowns, isn’t surprised by the scary clown sightings that have moved from the US to the UK and Australia
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How conservatives made Hanson's ideas part of the political furnitureA reading of Pauline Hanson: The Truth reveals the extent to which Hansonist positions have been co-opted by conservatives in politics and media
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Portlandia is ruining Portland: feminist bookstore publicly cuts ties with show‘Fuck Portlandia’ blogpost by In Other Words bookstore, the setting for many sketches, says the show ‘has had a net negative effect on the city as a whole’
Mark Levin: the talkshow host behind the baseless Obama wiretap rumor