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Look to California to see that the GOP has given up on elections
Trump is out of power, but the legacy of Trumpism lives on.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Against the Light: The Deep State Myth from the Illuminati to QAnon.
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For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’
Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price.
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We can pull the plug on the lab leak theory
An all-out push by the entire US Intelligence Committee failed to uncover one iota of evidence.
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The civilian wing of the Republican Party has finally lost control of its paramilitary wing
Roger Stone and Trump operatives like to think of themselves as being in control. A new Reuters report paints a very different picture.
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The governor’s breakup message: It’s not me, it’s you
You see, Andrew Cuomo wasn’t preying on the troopers; he was thanking them. That’s just the kind of guy he is.
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'A hit man sent them.' Police testify for the first day of House hearings on the January 6 insurrection
You couldn’t ask for a clearer mandate.
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The Texas AG takes his revenge
The ongoing search for unicorns.
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There are no clear-cut answers to the problem of a president's son making a living from his dad's name
All Joe Biden can do is distance himself ethically, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency veered from its lane into the racist history of cannabis prohibition
What the hell was the watchdog thinking? asks Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Why is it so hard to believe bats started covid?
Lindsay Beyerstein on Zeynep Tufekci's contrarian nonsense.
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Alabama district attorney aims to prosecute a woman for taking prescribed drug while pregnant
Another side of the war on women, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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If there's a disease outbreak, there's a conspiracy theory to explain it. Trump's playing an old game
The basic logic never changes, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.