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Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest newsSign up to our free US Evening Headlines emailA local sheriff in Nevada has been forced to bat away wild conspiracy theories that continue spread online about Burning Man.A wave of misinformation spread across Black Rock …
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On the Shelf Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World By Naomi KleinFSG: 416 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. At first Naomi Klein thought it was kind of funny. More and more people were …
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A conspiracy theory blaming the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Ukraine is going viral once again among conservatives online. The accusation received renewed attention on Monday after far-right activist Laura Loomer alleged to have uncovered the so-called bombshell. “I have exclusively confirmed …
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I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger” since I read an advance copy this summer, and when I tell people about it, some of them are baffled: You mean Klein wrote a whole book about being confused with the writer Naomi Wolf? The central conceit of “Doppelganger” sounds more like the …
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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planetGet our free Climate emailIt began with a fake screenshot on the social media platform X, and quickly spread across the internet and to tens of thousands trapped in swamp-like conditions at Burning Man.The annual …
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Not content with claiming that the Burning Man festival in Nevada has been declared a national disaster and subject to an Ebola outbreak, social media users are now making wild accusations of attendees eating each other amid a scarcity of food.One person has died and thousands have been left …
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Down in the basement of the Cockrell Butterfly Center in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, there used to be a very unique vending machine. It sold only edible bug treats like lollipops with real scorpions embedded in them. It was a neat way to learn about humanity’s long history of eating …
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Just one week after a man shot and killed three Black people in a Florida Dollar General with a rifle he decorated with swastikas, numerous prominent right-wing online influencers seemed to agree: the neo-Nazi groups that demonstrated just two hours south of that murder scene must have been part of …
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Remember the annoying dancing COVID-19 nurses on TikTok? They’ve moved on to dancing against yet another hoax: GLOBAL WARMING Now that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is over, all those bored doctors and nurses who staged mimed dancing routines and other cringe-worthy performances on TikTok have …
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Left: Naomi Klein, 53, is Jewish and the daughter of feminist documentarian Bonnie Sherr Klein. Klein has written nine books, including No Logo. Right: Naomi Wolf, 60, is Jewish and the daughter of the feminist author Deborah Goleman Wolf. Wolf has written 11 books including The Beauty MythSANE …
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