Filed Under: “Conspiracism”
Embracing uncertainty may be a better way to cure conspiracist thinking
By Ivan Oransky
If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels can make the truth that much harder to find
Turning Point USA’s ‘America Fest’ conference blends concerts with Christian nationalism and political activism
By Kristen Doerer
GOP donors are spending massively on parties to keep Republican-leaning young people engaged and indoctrinated
In first, U.S. labeled ‘backsliding democracy’ in report detailing state of democracy worldwide
By Julia Conley
More than one in four people globally live in backsliding democracies, which also include Brazil and India, according to the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Ghost stories tell us more about ourselves than the supernatural creatures they describe
By Melanie Trecek-King
Resorting to the supernatural to explain the unexplainable is a failure of imagination
Barry Goldwater’s critics saw today’s Republican extremism in 1964
By Seth Cotlar
The conspiracism, Christian nationalism, and pandering to racists we see today in the GOP was brought into the party long before Trump
CEO of company hired by Arizona Republicans touts fake audit’s Christian nationalism
By Peter Montgomery
Doug Logan boasts of unofficial recount workers changing religions, warns Americans to ‘turn away from their wicked ways’
Heeding Steve Bannon’s call, election conspiracy theorists are taking over the GOP to continue Trump’s lies
By Arnsdorf and Clark
After being forced out of the Trump White House, the ousted former Breitbart editor sees election delusion as a path to return to power
Ivermectin isn’t being ‘suppressed’ as a Covid-19 treatment, it’s being investigated, because that’s how science works
By Mark Sumner
Desperate for a cheap Covid-19 cure, many people have prematurely latched onto a drug that’s only been proven as a treatment for tapeworms and other parasites
Missouri GOP legislators promote vaccine conspiracies as Delta variant runs wild in state
By Jeremy Kohler
One state representative publicly joked about refusing vaccines because ‘we’re Republicans’
On vaccines, deliberate ignorance shouldn’t be treated the same as hesitance
By Eric Boehlert
Coddling delusions doesn’t make them go away, it makes them stronger