Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein covers legal affairs, health care and politics for the Editorial Board. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she’s a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Find her @beyerstein.

Allegations of rape are a career-booster for Hegseth

January 24, 2025 / Comments Off on Allegations of rape are a career-booster for Hegseth

Winning strategy? Be like Trump, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Whether the Kremlin is paying Gabbard is beside the point

December 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Whether the Kremlin is paying Gabbard is beside the point

The problem is she genuinely loves conspiracy theories.

Trump campaigned against reality and won

November 12, 2024 /

Lindsay Beyerstein on disinformation, conspiracism and totalitarianism.

Conservatism is dead, conspiracism is all

November 1, 2024 /

The Deep State, the Big Lie, and the Great Replacement, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Trump tariffs would be world’s biggest protection racket

October 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Trump tariffs would be world’s biggest protection racket

He politicized tariff waivers in his first term, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Vance is Trump’s ambassador of paranoia

October 15, 2024 / Comments Off on Vance is Trump’s ambassador of paranoia

Conspiracism is the overarching ideology of the maga movement. 

The GOP response to Trump’s conviction is incoherent until you remember the conspiracy theories that animate it

June 6, 2024 / Comments Off on The GOP response to Trump’s conviction is incoherent until you remember the conspiracy theories that animate it

It’s time to state the obvious, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Extreme apocalyptic rhetoric is everywhere and it’s dangerous

April 23, 2024 / Comments Off on Extreme apocalyptic rhetoric is everywhere and it’s dangerous

It’s so normalized it’s hard to draw causal connections between rhetoric and violence, writes Lindsay Beyerstein. That’s the point.

More Republicans are literally demonizing opponents

March 29, 2024 /

We laugh about the Satanic Panic, but we’re living through something much worse, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

IVF makes a mockery of anti-choice extremists

March 4, 2024 / Comments Off on IVF makes a mockery of anti-choice extremists

Warehouses of frozen embryos put a lie to their central dogma that a fertilized egg is a person, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.