Newsweek Plays Connect-the-Dots with Putin, Trump, WikiLeaks
A would-be exposé fails to deliver the goods.
Conspiracy Theories
The Clown Panic Comes to College
Auburn University has issued a public-safety bulletin about the clown menace. Read it here.
It Doesn't Matter Who Started Birtherism; What Matters Is Who Seized It
Trump and Clinton both have dirty hands.
The Problem With Obamacare Isn't That It Was Designed to Fail—It's That It Was Designed to Pass
The law's failures stem from its many compromises and concessions to political reality.
Trump's Latest Birther Press Conference Shows That He's a Crony Capitalist Nightmare
The GOP candidate's event was a falsehood-filled advertisement for his new D.C. hotel.
Don't Blame the Internet for Conspiracy Rumors
Lack of transparency, on the other hand...
The Universal Basic Income: Innovative Social Welfare Reform or Satanic Plot?
An experiment in international aid hits a snag.
Anarchy, Swamp, and Utopia
Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.
Friday A/V Club: A Vintage Anti-Hippie Film Strip
A fever-dream film strip from 1967 calls the counterculture a communist/capitalist plot.
Trust in Authority Is Declining—Thank Goodness
When institutional authority declines, social gains follow. Even if there's also a rise in weird beliefs.
Hillary Clinton: The Alt-Right Has 'Effectively Taken Over the Republican Party'
Speaking in Nevada, the Democrat denounces Donald Trump as a racist and a conspiracy theorist.
This Week In Cognitive Dissonance
Down with conspiracy theories! By the way, my opponent is controlled by Moscow.
The Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories
Sure, Trump loves to talk about conspiracies. So do his foes.
The Great WikiLeaks Conspiracy?
There's been talk about a Roger Stone/Julian Assange plot, but the evidence being offered is pretty slim.
Many Americans Already Believe Our Elections Are Rigged
The only big difference with Trump is that the candidate is publicly joining them.
#SaveMarinaJoyce and the Fickle Nature of 'Compassionate' Meddlers
The wages of collective compassion
Tim LaHaye, 1926–2016
The Left Behind coauthor and Moral Majority cofounder dies at age 90.
Atheists Decry DNC Plot to 'Out' Sanders For Alleged Non-Belief
This divisive strategem has outraged the nice secular folks over at the Center for Inquiry
Comedian Eric Andre Crashes a Pro-Trump Alex Jones Rally, Only a Little Violence Ensues
Andre to Jones: 'I want you to have sex with my wife.'
The Baton Rouge Shooter's Worldview Was a Mash-Up of Fringe Ideas
What Gavin Eugene Long believed
NYC Councilman Completely Fabricates Child Sex-Trafficking Ring
Fourteen "attractive girls" have gone missing from the Bronx since July 2014, said Councilman Andy King, and he suspects the worst. There's just one problem...
Unfounded Fears of Pedophile Rings, Stranger Danger, and Satanists
Kids are pretty safe, it turns out.
Friday A/V Club: Pink Pistols, Bill O'Reilly, and the Lesbian Gang Menace
Cable news at its cable-newsiest
Decoding Donald Trump's Conspiracy Talk
Lots of politicians are conspiracy theorists, but Trump brings his own style to the game.
After Orlando, Donald Trump Hints That President Obama Might Be Linked to Radical Islam
Trump is once again indulging in paranoid conspiracy theories about the president's background.
If Politicians Were Controlled by Space Aliens, Would We Notice?
Kang and Kodos go to Washington in new CBS show.
On the Radio Today: Jesse Walker, Mark Potok, and Michael Wood Debate Conspiracy Theories
On WHYY in Philadelphia from 11 to 12 ET
Friday A/V Club: Jonestown's In-House R&B Band Performs 'The Greatest Love of All'
Recorded seven months before the massacre
Hillary and the Extraterrestrials
Three reasons to appreciate Clinton's fascination with UFOs
Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz's Dad of Hanging Out with Lee Harvey Oswald
"You know, his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being, uh, you know, shot."
Before Trump, There Was Pappy
The Donald wasn't the first to parlay business and broadcast fame into a political career.
How Conspiracy Laws Let Prosecutors Abuse Their Power
Any meaningful criminal justice reform must include a reexamination of these draconian policies.
Friday A/V Club: A Sermon, a Song, a Murder, and a Media Hoax
In Memoriam: Richard Lyons of Negativland
Are State Attorneys General Attacking Climate Change Critics Engaging in a Conspiracy?
Glenn Reynolds, the law professor behind Instapundit.com thinks so.
Middle East State-Run Media Blame Brussels Attack on Their Regimes' Enemies
The Middle East's hew hidden hands
The Internet Turns a Chatbot Into a Nazi
Microsoft released a simulacrum of a teenager into the digital wild. Guess what happened next!
Friday A/V Club: The First Presidential Debate of the Broadcast Era
The central topic: Should the U.S. ban the Communist Party?
The Biggest Sex-Trafficking Bust in FBI History Was Totally Bogus
How two troubled teens and a cop with a cause got dozens of Somali immigrants on the hook for child sex trafficking.
Texas Mom's Paranoid Rant Spawns Viral Sex-Trafficking Rumor
"I've heard this is happening at Target, Walmart & Kmart; often in the mornings/before lunch."
Before Trump, There Was Pappy
The Donald wasn't the first to parlay business and broadcast fame into a political career.
