conspiracism

Below is the second of a two-part interview with Charles Kriel and Katharina Gellein Viken on their new documentary, People You May Know . Read the first part here. — eds *** CS: Let’s talk some more…

Among the troubling buzzwords forced into our pop culture vocabulary by the Covid-19 pandemic, one of most pertinent and perturbing is infodemic . As health experts struggled to assemble clear and…

Over the past decade, sectors on the Right have been making a concerted effort to mobilize county sheriffs to support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion. With COVID-19…

If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks and doomscrolling may have brought you glimpses of the “world” of QAnon : the conspiracy theory that argues…

Most of us are familiar with the genre of political reporting in which a journalist from the Times parachutes into Ohio or Arizona (or wherever) to talk to Donald Trump’s supporters while they’re…

While Americans struggle to meet their basic needs and keep themselves and their families safe from the coronavirus, the U.S. Right is capitalizing on widespread distress and misinformation to advance…

Dr. Stella Immanuel received considerable attention after President Donald Trump retweeted a video where she recommends the use of hydroxychloroquine and asserts that masks are unnecessary to halt the…

According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National Review ,* there’s a simple solution to the problem of conservative, mostly white evangelicals spreading wild and…

The rhetoric that fuels Anti-Sorosism, especially in the U.S. and Hungary, evokes themes of domination, conspiracy, and antisemitism and allows illiberal politicians to harness popular support for nationalist projects.

Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a record high in new COVID-19 cases, 15 Republican members of the Idaho House of Representatives went rogue, gathering in the…