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April 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Fox News Made Matt Gaetz
The network turned the scandal-plagued GOP congressman into a star. Now it’s acting like it doesn’t know him.
April 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
How a Bunch of Revolutionary War Reenactors Got Caught Up in Facebook’
“It’s people in 1776 in wool clothes with muskets that it takes a minute to load and shoot.”
February 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
We Really Don’t Need Another Conservative News Platform
Al Jazeera’s new outlet for “center-right” viewers is the latest entry into a very crowded space.
February 17, 2021
Alex Shephard
Rush Limbaugh Made America Worse
The racist, sexist radio host played a pivotal role in injecting cruelty and conspiracy into conservative mass media.
January 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Conservative Media Really Wants You to Think the Capitol Riot Is the Left’s Fault
Lies about voter fraud have given way to excuses for violence.
November 6, 2020
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Divorce From Fox News Is Getting Ugly
The right-wing network was gearing up to cast itself as the leader of the anti-Biden resistance. But a drawn-out election has put it in conflict with President Trump and his supporters.
October 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
Will
The Wall Street Journal
Be Destroyed by its Opinion Section?
The newspaper’s deranged columnists are damaging the credibility of its news reporting—and that credibility could be hard to win back.
September 4, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
This Is What Trumpism After Trump Looks Like
Laura Loomer is a “proud Islamophobe” and QAnon supporter. She’s also a Republican nominee for Congress.
August 26, 2020
John Wilmes
The NBA Is White Conservatives’ Favorite New Target for Racial Dog-Whistling
With Covid-19 throttling the entertainment industry, basketball is caught in the crosshairs of the culture war.
July 15, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Long War on Objectivity
What enabled the rise of today’s right-wing media empire?
July 14, 2020
Magazine
Moira Weigel
The Pioneers of the Misinformation Industry
How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents
May 5, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Why Conservatives Dismiss the Dangers of the Coronavirus
February 27, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Why the New Right Loves Nootropics
The ideologies behind mind optimization
September 17, 2019
Seth Hettena
The Obscure Newspaper Fueling the Far-Right in Europe
The conspiratorial bent of The Epoch Times is forging common cause with European nationalists.
September 6, 2019
Libby Watson
Breitbart News Is the Real Mustering of Digital Jacobins
What two recent pseudo-scandals reveal about the end goal of the reactionary right-wing media
September 5, 2019
Matt Ford
Conservatives: We’ll Spill Blood to Keep Our Guns
The right-wing commentariat keeps warning America that if lawmakers intercede, gun owners will have no choice but to kill cops.
September 4, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Boundless Grift of Right-Wing Media Watchdogs
A new effort to "target" journalists has earned its conservative founders $2 million in seed money, which is probably why it exists in the first place.
September 3, 2019
Magazine
Richard Cooke
Right Brain
The conservative commentariat’s love affair with nootropics
November 15, 2017
Alex Shephard
Louie Gohmert and Sean Hannity’s Uranium One flowcharts are a revealing window into the Republican brain.
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