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The Deep State
QAnon, a debunked, right-wing conspiracy theory once on the political fringes, has seeped into the political landscape and into this week’s Republican National Convention. The same day a bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced legislation condemning the conspiracy theory, a speaker was
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As I’ve watched the Republican National Convention these last two nights, all I could think was: Where is Q? And which of the people on my television screen is a Patriot? Q, for those who don’t follow the political fringe,
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As Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea leaves the Washington Legislature, the 4th District is losing a Republican conspiracy theorist who once speculated with radio host Alex Jones that President Obama’s …
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Comment on this story Comment Gift Article During the school year, I publish lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project, which aims to teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction in the age of digital communication and a president
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To Donald Trump, it’s “people who love our country”. To the FBI, it’s a potential domestic terror threat. And to you or anyone else who has logged on to Facebook in recent months, it may just be a friend or
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A medical examiner ruled that Richard McCaslin ended his own life. But Milwaukee writer Tea Krulos has a different view. “Whatever the cause, conspiracy theory killed Richard,” Krulos writes in “American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How
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Earlier this year, I published a lesson for teachers from the Sift to use in class to explore with students the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that President Trump will save the world from a “deep state” cult of pedophiles
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You may have heard the false claim that wearing masks is harmful. Or the false conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is part of the “Deep State.” Virologist Judy
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This affair also shows why the GOP convention will likely fail at one of its most urgent goals — erasing and rewriting the history of Trump’s towering failures on the pandemic — perhaps in spectacularly buffoonish fashion. The starting point
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President Donald Trump accused the FDA of delaying coronavirus vaccine approval until after the election. His unsubstantiated charge, delivered via Twitter on Saturday, even took some of his own administration officials by surprise and drew outrage and criticism from Democrats,
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