America's Strangest Presidential Candidates
The field is more crowded than you think.
Conspiracy Theories
Did You Hear About the Sex Traffickers Abducting Grown Women From Hobby Lobby?
The police "said that this is a common thing," stated the Facebook post gone viral. And yet...
Deeply Confused Newsweek Story Compares Republicans to Timothy McVeigh
The weekly gets both the past and the present wrong.
How the Internet Changed Conspiracy Theories
...and other topics from DigBoston's recent interview with me
Osama bin Laden's Library Included a 9/11 Conspiracy Book. Naturally.
But no Thomas Friedman
Behind the Jade Helm 15 Conspiracy Theories
Why would people not want a military training exercise in their community? Well...
Friday A/V Club: I'm So Old, I Remember When Liberals Protested Military Exercises Conducted on U.S. Soil
From Operation Urban Warrior to Jade Helm 15
Gangs and 'Outside Agitators': Baltimore Authorities Pick Their Conspiracy Theories
City leaders put a new spin on some very old tales.
No, 'Outside Agitators' Were Not Responsible for Saturday's Violence in Baltimore
Contrary to the authorities' claims
Feds Convict Elderly Bar Owner Who Allowed Prostitution Upstairs as 'Sex Trafficking Ring Leader'
FBI says Hortencia Medeles-Arguello, 71, "should have known" some of the women were being controlled by pimps.
See Reason's Jesse Walker Speak at the Annapolis Book Festival on April 25
Discussing "Paranoia, Pranksters, and One Extraordinary Year" with Kembrew McLeod and W. Joseph Campbell
Did President Obama Admit the US is Controlled by Space Aliens?
Obama UFO joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live throws conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Invasion from the Moon
Two Firesign Theater veterans recut some ancient movie serials into a conspiracy comedy.
ISIS As 'Zionist Enterprise'
Some Muslims in the Middle East insist the Islamic State is an Israeli-funded project despite any evidence that would suggest that.
What If Someone Crossed the Razor-Blades-in-Halloween-Candy Rumor with the Injecting-Babies-with-AIDS Rumor?
Decoding a Vietnamese urban legend
The Elusive Politics of American Sniper
It isn't a hawkish movie, and it isn't conventionally dovish either. But it does have a distinct political perspective.
Jesse Walker to Speak in Canada About Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History
The event is at Western University.
Concerned Citizens Write to J. Edgar Hoover About Martin Luther King
Letters from the FBI's King files
Ron Paul Institute Publishes a Charlie Hebdo 'False Flag' Piece
Defending the decision, RPI director levels various baseless accusations
Remember When 2,000 to 5,000 Al Qaeda Operatives Had Supposedly Infiltrated America?
A litany of failed forecasts about terrorism
Friday A/V Club: The Muhammad Movie That Never Was
'The choice of Paris as the venue of the performance suggests there is a conspiracy against Islam.'
French Town Bans Clown Costumes Amid Nationwide 'Aggressive Clown' Terror
SPOILER ALERT: This story also involves Clown Hunters
The Return of Moral Panic
A scholar tries—and fails—to rehabilitate the sex-abuse hysteria of the '80s.
Ebola Conspiracies: A Tale of Two Daily Mail Articles
A newspaper chortles about dubious Ebola stories while spreading one of its own.
Now Available in Paperback: The United States of Paranoia
With a new afterword on the post-Snowden era.
Developer Wants to Build Hundreds of Homes for Hasidic Jews; Catskills Town Might Dissolve Itself to Stop Him
The strangest local-government story you'll read today.
The ISIS Conspiracies
How a century's worth of anxieties about America's southern border are affecting the latest foreign-policy crisis.
Michigan Readers: See Jesse Walker Discuss Political Paranoia This Afternoon
A talk in Ann Arbor.
Oath Keepers in Ferguson Area Condemn Militarized Police; Oath Keepers' Guest Speaker IS Militarized Police
Tensions on the populist right
Suspicious Minds in the 1970s
Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
