Conservative Demagogues Use a Scapegoat When Confronted About Gun Violence
A loved one has just been murdered at school days prior in yet another mass shooting and, rather than doing something about it, your legislators...
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The Radical Right Has Found a New Home: Rumble
Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have cracked down on the spread of misinformation and far-right conspiracy theories after...
Conspiracy in American Politics: QAnon Steps Up to the Political Stage
QAnon, a political conspiracy movement, has grown in popularity in recent years among political right extremists. According to the Grid...
“At Once Pro-Choice and Pro-Life:” What Recent Radical Changes in Abortion Law Mean for Democracy At Large
An article in the April 16th, 2022 issue of The Economist, “What Happens If America’s Supreme...
The Era of Misinformation: Social Media and Political Discourse’s Strained Relationship
The New York Times’s article “Barack Obama Takes On a New Role: Fighting Disinformation” by Steven Lee Myers and Cecilia Kang presents the new...
What Is the Matter with Many American Voters?
One of the greatest paradoxes in politics that has stirred up in the United States for several years has been trying to understand why a large...
A Racist Conspiracy Theory Emerged in the 2022 French Presidential Elections
“In 10 years, will we still be the seventh power in the world? Will we still be a sovereign nation or an auxiliary of the United States, a...
The Right to Repost: Understanding the Spread of Right-Wing Conspiracies on Social Media Platforms
Image courtesy of Brett Jordan, unsplash.com The Washington Post published an article on Tuesday, April 19, that gave a detailed history of the...
Alex Jones: Menace to American Democracy
Alex Jones’s job consists of profiting off of formulating outlandish conspiracy theories, exploiting national tragedies, and eliciting emotions...