No, Biden Can't Save Us With a 'Reality Czar.' Also, WTF?
It's peak season for terrible ideas from journalists, academics, and politicians about how to combat disinformation and extremism.
It's peak season for terrible ideas from journalists, academics, and politicians about how to combat disinformation and extremism.
The Georgia representative has embraced nearly every crazy conspiracy theory that is popular on the right.
They also argue that the Senate has no authority to try a former president.
The State Bar of Georgia is demanding that the pro-Trump lawyer undergo a mental health evaluation.
The company says Donald Trump's leading lawyer perpetrated "a viral disinformation campaign" based on "demonstrably false" charges.
Gerry Reith's raw, paranoid, apocalyptic fables were shot through with distrust for just about every institution around.
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."
Trump supporters did this, and everyone knows it.
Something like Wednesday evening's soothing remarks could have made a real difference on the day of the Capitol riot.
Here is how Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley responded to the president's election delusions.
Unlike the cancellation of Josh Hawley’s book, such criminal charges pose a real threat to freedom of speech.
The impeachment article against the president cites a little-discussed section of the 14th Amendment.
Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of the former Trump campaign lawyer's conspiracy theory, is seeking $1.3 billion from her for defamation.
Laws against sedition have historically been used by insecure officials to punish critics.
Trump attorney Kurt Hilbert claimed he had reached settlement agreements with state officials, which was news to them.
Under federal law, incitement to riot does not include "advocacy of ideas" or "expression of belief" unless it endorses violence, which Trump did not do.
Cruz plunged into the constitutional abyss while Rand Paul stepped back, refusing to sacrifice democracy and the rule of law.
The people who smashed windows and stormed the building were sincere pro-Trump protesters.
Trump said the "Save America March" would be peaceful, but his apocalyptic rhetoric had predictable consequences.
The vice president can no longer avoid acknowledging Joe Biden's victory.
The ideal (if unlikely) outcome might be a split decision.
The president seems completely sincere, and he surrounds himself with advisers who reinforce his self-flattering fantasy.
To alleviate "deep distrust of our democratic processes," the Texas senator is leading a doomed challenge to Joe Biden's electoral votes.
Lin Wood's bizarre charges give you a sense of the advisers Trump is consulting as he continues to insist that he won the presidential election.
The Missouri senator does not explicitly endorse Trump's loony conspiracy theory, but he can't escape its taint.
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Louis Gohmert asserts a previously overlooked power to decide which electoral votes will be counted.
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
Plus: Europeans are just as inclined toward "conspiracy thinking" as Americans, D.C. decriminalizes "drug paraphernalia," and more...
Trump thinks the judiciary cannot be trusted to reveal the massive fraud that he says denied him a second term.
Federal judges have been underwhelmed by the former Trump campaign lawyer's evidence of massive election fraud.
The political right needs more self-analysis and less whataboutism.
Eric Coomer says the claim that he bragged about fixing the election during an "antifa conference call" provoked a torrent of abuse and death threats.
The president's advisers reportedly pushed back vigorously against his ideas.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
The strategy of lodging objections under the Electoral Count Act has been tried before, but it has never succeeded.
Given the conspicuous lack of credible evidence, the president's charges can be accepted only as a matter of faith.
The president and his diehard allies in Congress continue to insist the election was stolen.
What to say to a political party that keeps trying to overturn the results of an election?
By his own account, the Texas senator is committed to defending a dishonest, amoral, narcissistic bully.
Some Trump supporters find it easier to believe that every major American institution is potentially corrupt than to think that a president with a history of telling whoppers is being dishonest again.
Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
To move back in a libertarian direction, the Republican Party will have to do more than jettison Trump. But as long as it remains in Trump's thrall, that reversal is all but impossible.
The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
Trump could have reined in his Twitter attacks, surrounded himself with truth-tellers rather than sycophants, and reached out to other voters. He didn't. That's why he lost.
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