There is not going to be a second Civil War
The notion is a fear-based fantasy, mostly based on media-bubble abstractions
Conspiracy theories
Friday
Thursday
A brief history of flat earthers
Aristotle had long proved that the Earth was spherical, and even the illiterate masses of early medieval Europe were aware of the fact
Tuesday
Musk wades into South Africa’s ‘white genocide’ spat
The billionaire replied to a series of tweets referencing South African firebrand Julius Malema
Tuesday
The advent of the crackpot flyer
From Swifties belting out ballads to a woman who sees lizard people, the skies have gone insane
Tuesday
The media’s bizarre Sound of Freedom freakout
Jim Caviezel’s madcap views are a reason to dismiss his film’s success. Yet Tom Cruise’s aren’t?
Wednesday
YouTube’s inconsistent conspiracy policy
This doesn’t look like a war on ‘misinformation’ as much as it does a war on users
Tuesday
Why did Epstein kill himself? Negligent guards…
The pedophile financier was left alone in his jail cell with extra bed linens on his final night
Sunday
What happened to QAnon?
Still waiting for the storm
Sunday
Inside RFK Jr.’s kooky White House quest
An older generation of Kennedys sold hope. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is offering something weirder
Monday
A short list of people who said the lab leak theory was a conspiracy
Tom Cotton was right after all
Wednesday
Thirty years from Waco: what the fatal siege wrought
An unhinged David Koresh and a bungling government collided
In defense of paranoia
Social media is the jet fuel that melts the steel beams of skepticism
Saturday
TikTok sleuths are convinced Britney Spears is dead
‘Why is she wearing her COVID EXTENSIONS!?!? Where is she!!??’
Tuesday
We should be better than Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories
Voices on the right have let themselves down
Wednesday
Conspiracy theory: did Alex Jones’s lawyers leak his messages on purpose?
It’s the only logical explanation
Sunday
Is this the end of Alex Jones?
He didn’t create the world we live in but he did exploit it
Monday
Remembering the most insane Infowars moments
As Alex Jones files for bankruptcy
Sunday
Crazed and confused
The dark, strange, twisted and irrational moments of American history aren’t just fringe tales
Wednesday
The crackpot of Camelot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be nuts but such people are less lonely than they used to be
Wednesday
I’m a Covid conspiracy theorist
Aren’t we all, at this point?
