As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
What happens when a prank or spoof sparks a real belief?
Cops have a long history of thinking fast food workers are out to get them.
Our reality is now Fox Mulder, Dale Gribble, Chief Wiggum, and a home movie of a guy getting hit in the groin.
There's no evidence to support the claim that 75-year-old Martin Gugino is part of antifa.
The perpetual scapegoat for unrest
No, Gates didn't create COVID-19, and he does not want to microchip us all.
And why does he think he has the power to do that?
This preposterous claim is front and center in a new PragerU video.
If you think much about the epidemic remains uncertain, The New York Times warns, you might be part of "the virus 'truther' movement."
The more punitive the approach to public health, the fiercer the backlash.
These theories are dumb. Destroying 5G infrastructure is not going to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The biggest thing our institutions could do to stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation would be to spread less misinformation themselves.
By default we veer on the side of being resistant to new ideas.
Plus: What is the Shadow app? And are the Iowa caucuses dead?
A century ago, the Wilson administration cracked down on immigrant anarchists. The raids lasted three months, and their impact was felt for decades.
No, Californians aren't banned from showering and doing laundry on the same day. But the fact that so many people believed that lie says something about how insane the state's real water laws are.
And they're just as wrong and dangerous this time around.
The vice president says assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was involved in the September 11 plot. That's as true as when Republicans said Saddam Hussein was.
Russia is seeking to "delegitimize our entire presidency," Fiona Hill testified.
Promoters and detractors alike are not thinking through how unlikely it would be for Gabbard to seek and win the Green Party nomination, let alone come anywhere close to Jill Stein's totals from 2016.
Gabbard called Clinton "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long."
"She's a favorite of the Russians and they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far."
The article ignores Gabbard's arguments for a less interventionist foreign policy, preferring to speculate about foreigners and fascists.
The American Priority Festival gave a glimpse inside the world where deep state theories thrive.
An anthropologist examines secret societies, revolutionary movements, and esoteric ideas.
Plus: how Paul Manafort may be involved, the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory, and more...
"Vaping is a health miracle to me," said ex-smoker Vicki Porter. "Not safe, but less harmful."
Friday A/V Club: That time NBC broadcast a radical Philip K. Dick fable to a 1950s audience
The progressive senator's Trumpian anti-Bezos take is part of career-long history of fantasizing about evil billionaires.
Both the House and the Senate want transit agencies to stop buying rolling stock from Chinese-owned companies.
A previously unpublished conversation with “investigative satirist” Paul Krassner, who just died at age 87.
A pair of political scientists think they've identified a new kind of conspiracy thinking. They haven't.
Plus: Ohio vice cop indicted for murder, FFC would police "the new kids online beat," and crony Federal Reserve appointments on the way?
Yujing Zhang, Cindy Yang, and prostitution busts at Chinese spas have planted the seeds for new conspiratorial corruption narratives to bloom.
Plus: SCOTUS declines Hawaii lesbian case, UC stands by professor in free speech standoff, and ACLU warns of "privacy Trojan horse."
Nine women face felony prostitution charges and hundreds of their customers have been arrested. Florida says it's the real victim.
Journalists have long been used by governments, wittingly or not, to collect intel and spread disinformation.
Sen. Richard Burr raises an interesting point about onerous regulation, but his argument is baffling.
Plus: Author Zadie Smith talking cultural appropriation, and Budweiser versus Big Corn
BuzzFeed report says president personally told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow project.
People are losing their damn fool minds in the midst of Putin paranoia.
Yes, the paranoid lunatic is a mega-troll, but the beauty of new media means never having to engage stuff you find awful or offensive.
Jesse Walker's speech at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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