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To hear the full episode, be sure to search for and subscribe to Politics Weekly America wherever you get your podcasts. During the Senate confirmation hearings for Joe Biden’s nomination for supreme court justice, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was repeatedly asked about an unfounded claim that …
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New York CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The right-wing media machine has a new villain: Disney. Right now Fox News, conservative talk radio, and a constellation of right-wing websites and …
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The latest Economist/YouGov Poll asked Americans their opinions on prominent conspiracy theories relating to vaccine-autism links, sex-trafficking among top Democrats, and a secretive shadow government ruling the world. To understand what drives belief in these theories, we looked at how opinions …
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Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Hawley was undeterred both in the hearings and afterward. On Monday, he announced he would introduce legislation to “get tough” on those who commit crimes related to child pornography. “Dems, the White House & Judge Jackson spent last week saying …
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We learn more about a Wisconsin company trying to make divorce easier on women. Then, a Madison College professor shares the research he’s doing in Antarctica. Later, an author and religion researcher shares the implications of the QAnon conspiracy and its spread.
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Roughly 16 percent of the United States population believe in the conspiracy theories of QAnon, according to survey data from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). That’s an increase in followers since the Trump administration. Join us to hear from CEO and founder of PRRI and author of the …
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In this Aug. 2, 2018, file photo, a protesters holds a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally with President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Candidates engaging with the QAnon conspiracy theory are running for seats in state legislatures this year, breathing more oxygen into a …
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That debunked theory held that Satan-worshiping Democrats were trafficking children out of the basement of a Washington restaurant, and in 2017 a believer armed with an assault riffle stormed in and fired his weapon. Judge Jackson, as a district court judge, sentenced him to four years in prison, …
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The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson have been marked by bizarre lines of questioning from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Maybe none was weirder and more surprising than an attack by Josh Hawley, who planted the idea that Jackson is …
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A militia that espouses QAnon theories is meeting unaccompanied minors at the Arizona-Mexico border, and federal authorities are apparently aware of it. The group, called Veterans on Patrol, is led by a man named Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer. In 2018, he claimed a homeless encampment in Tucson was …
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