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Who needs Russian psyops when there’s a huge US market for conspiracy theories promising democracy’s violent overthrow?
Lindsay Beyerstein talked to the anonymous researcher behind Q Origins Project, who has just published the most exhaustive investigation to date on Bellingcat.
The Senate’s barbarous Republicans
The former president isn’t the only one on trial.
When it came to immigration, legal and illegal, Donald Trump was his own worst enemy
María Isabel Puerta Riera explains why “America First” put America last.
Purposeful and pernicious centuries-deep racial discrimination is real and we can’t wish it away
Issac J. Bailey explains why he gave up on colorblindness
The ‘slippery slope’ Republicans fear most
It doesn’t slide into tyranny. It slides into freedom, for all.
Why conservatives love ‘the slippery slope’
Claire Bond Potter says it teaches Americans to fear government.
No, Ashley Vanderbilt did not escape Q
The terrible conclusion CNN did not report.
Hello, this is Hades
Our mascot is back.
The rape of the republic, felt but unsaid
Linking the assault of the body politic to the assault of a woman’s body.
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene could look a Parkland massacre survivor in the eye and call him ‘a coward’
What suffering and empathy tell us about politics.