Don’t start with the truth by Jesselyn Cook Not long ago, a millennial father of two in the Midwest whom I interviewed was convinced that many of our elected leaders […]
Tag: conspiracy theories
Red states don’t like ‘Zuckerbucks’?
They should pony up more public funds for elections by Jackie Calmes Democracy isn’t free. Tell that to the more than half the states that have banned or limited donations […]
Conspiracy theories fly after bridge collapse. It wasn’t always this way
by Jim Warren I vividly remember the gruesome wreckage of the United States’ worst aviation disaster. I was among the first reporters to see the burning remnants of a DC-10 […]
Republicans promoting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are playing with fire
by Jonathan Bernstein Nominations define parties. But what we’re seeing in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s futile challenge to President Joe Biden is an odd situation in which a nomination skirmish […]
Mike Lindell’s 2020 election conspiracy theory debunked
Mike Lindell must have been feeling confident. The businessman famous for his My Pillow bedding products had acquired computer data he believed would show China’s interference with the 2020 election. […]
15-minute cities: Fact vs. fiction
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of “15-minute cities” before today. And if you have heard of 15-minute cities, there’s a good chance you heard about them through social […]
GOP’s Twitter-FBI conspiracy theory has finally blown up in their faces
The Republican obsession with proving Twitter conspired with Democrats and the FBI against conservatives boomeranged during a House hearing last week, exposing the wispiness of one of the new majority’s […]
Day of remembrance for COVID victims
by Sarah E. Wagner, Roy R. Grinker and Joel C. Kuipers In New York City, a woman opens her laptop to a bar graph showing the number of COVID-19 deaths […]
Poor white people
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 […]
The trucker convoy is scary, but not for the reason you think
by Anita Chabria Donny Thomas and I agreed on many things when we spoke at the California Capitol last week. That’s alarming when you consider he’s part of the so-called […]


