It’s hard to argue against a phrase like “save the children.” Which, presumably,
is why QAnon uses it as a hashtag. The growing online conspiracy cult has co-op…
It started with a drizzle but quickly turned into a downpour: Disinformation about the election, and in particular unfounded claims of election fraud, has flood…
The day after the November 2020 election, the chairs of the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties of Maricopa County, Arizona, initiated a routine but…
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. With temperatures soaring
around the country, it certainly feels like summer (though worrying whether this
…
Since the dawn of the internet, someone has inevitably raised this question
every election cycle: Why can’t we vote online? (The question was particularly
apt i…
This article marks the debut of a new column excavating the origins of public
figures’ factually dubious comments. We explain what their claims are referring
to…
In Christian art, saints often hold an object associated with their martyrdom.
Saint Stephen, stoned to death, holds a pile of rocks. Saint Lawrence, burned
ove…
Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial may have ended, but his veneration is only beginning.
On Friday, a jury acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges after he shot three men,
k…
Mike Cuffe blends in. Sitting in a chair that almost matches the color of his
suit, which almost matches the gray Montana sky outside, the state senator
looked …
This is the latest edition of our column that excavates the origins of public
figures’ extreme comments. We explain what their claims are referring to, the
evid…
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. It’s hard to fathom what’s happening in Ukraine right now. Schools being bombed. Civilians forming militias…
The carnage was impossible to deny. As the House select committee investigating
the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol laid out its evidence that former
Presiden…
Former President Donald Trump thinks the House select committee investigating
the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol shouldn’t be investigating the
attack, …
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Two of us are writing this week’s Pollapalooza, but I — Kaleigh Rogers — am taking this top bit since we’re…
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. When nearly 50 migrants arrived unexpectedly in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last week, it rekindled t…
In a dramatic ending on Thursday to the final scheduled public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, the committee unanimously …
“We’ve had the death threats,” Stacie Wilke-McCulloch said. “We’ve had the, ‘We know where you live,’ and all that.” As a trustee on the school board for Carson…
In May, Anna Paulina Luna donned a red-carpet-worthy ball gown to a screening of “2000 Mules,” a debunked documentary that falsely claims to show evidence of wi…