Policing 'Fake News' Is Our Own Responsibility, Not Facebook's
Calling for the social media outlet to censor things, even completely made up stories, can end up in bad places.
Calling for the social media outlet to censor things, even completely made up stories, can end up in bad places.
What A Face in the Crowd and Meet John Doe tell us about populism, pop culture, and fear.
The weekend reactions are both a reminder and a preview of how Clinton handles a scandal.
This year's baseless Halloween-mayhem rumor hasn't picked up as much steam as last year's baseless Halloween-mayhem rumor.
Which does that tell us more about: conspiracy theories, or polls?
Belief in electoral fraud depresses turnout.
Coming Saturday: "Fear, Conspiracy, and Presidential Campaigns"
The Fifth Column talks conspiracies, late hits, Reason commenters, and other strange phenomena in advance of tonight's final presidential debate
What's new is that Trump himself is leading the charge. But will that make a difference?
A would-be exposé fails to deliver the goods.
Auburn University has issued a public-safety bulletin about the clown menace. Read it here.
Trump and Clinton both have dirty hands.
The law's failures stem from its many compromises and concessions to political reality.
The GOP candidate's event was a falsehood-filled advertisement for his new D.C. hotel.
Lack of transparency, on the other hand...
An experiment in international aid hits a snag.
Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.
A fever-dream film strip from 1967 calls the counterculture a communist/capitalist plot.
When institutional authority declines, social gains follow. Even if there's also a rise in weird beliefs.
Speaking in Nevada, the Democrat denounces Donald Trump as a racist and a conspiracy theorist.
Down with conspiracy theories! By the way, my opponent is controlled by Moscow.
Sure, Trump loves to talk about conspiracies. So do his foes.
There's been talk about a Roger Stone/Julian Assange plot, but the evidence being offered is pretty slim.
The only big difference with Trump is that the candidate is publicly joining them.
The wages of collective compassion
The Left Behind coauthor and Moral Majority cofounder dies at age 90.
This divisive strategem has outraged the nice secular folks over at the Center for Inquiry
Andre to Jones: 'I want you to have sex with my wife.'
What Gavin Eugene Long believed
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...
Kids are pretty safe, it turns out.
Cable news at its cable-newsiest
Lots of politicians are conspiracy theorists, but Trump brings his own style to the game.
Trump is once again indulging in paranoid conspiracy theories about the president's background.
Kang and Kodos go to Washington in new CBS show.
On WHYY in Philadelphia from 11 to 12 ET
Recorded seven months before the massacre
Three reasons to appreciate Clinton's fascination with UFOs
"You know, his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being, uh, you know, shot."
The Donald wasn't the first to parlay business and broadcast fame into a political career.
Any meaningful criminal justice reform must include a reexamination of these draconian policies.
In Memoriam: Richard Lyons of Negativland