Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein covers legal affairs, health care and politics for the Editorial Board. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she’s a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Find her @beyerstein.

No ‘Hyde’ in American Rescue Act. That’s a BFD

March 11, 2021 /

Democrats step toward ending funding restrictions on abortion.

Why right-wing fetishes are never benign

March 6, 2021 /

Lindsay Beyerstein explains a relentlessly false GOP narrative.

The GOP’s special Anti-Choice Math

February 26, 2021 /

Lindsay Beyerstein explains how the Republicans do abortion politics.

What is the link between Trumpland, QAnon, evangelical culture and child-sex predators? 4chan

February 19, 2021 /

Lindsay Beyerstein explains what no one else will.

Don’t let the ‘Q shaman’ and his antics trivialize the importance of protecting religious freedoms

February 12, 2021 /

Lindsay Beyerstein squares Jacob Chansley’s shtick with the Constitution.

Who needs Russian psyops when there’s a huge US market for conspiracy theories promising democracy’s violent overthrow?

February 8, 2021 /

Lindsay Beyerstein talked to the anonymous researcher behind Q Origins Project, who has just published the most exhaustive investigation to date on Bellingcat.