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.

Whether the Kremlin is paying Gabbard is beside the point

December 9, 2024 /

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 /

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

Vance is Trump’s ambassador of paranoia

October 15, 2024 /

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 /

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

Extreme apocalyptic rhetoric is everywhere and it’s dangerous

April 23, 2024 /

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 /

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

A convention fight is a pure pundit’s fantasy

February 22, 2024 /

It’s time to shelve the childish fantasies and focus on the task at hand, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.