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

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

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The Senate's barbarous Republicans

The former president isn't the only one on trial.

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When it came to immigration, legal and illegal, Donald Trump was his own worst enemy

María Isabel Puerta Riera explains why "America First" put America last.

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Purposeful and pernicious centuries-deep racial discrimination is real and we can't wish it away

Issac J. Bailey explains why he gave up on colorblindness

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The 'slippery slope' Republicans fear most

It doesn't slide into tyranny. It slides into freedom, for all.

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Why conservatives love 'the slippery slope'

Claire Bond Potter says it teaches Americans to fear government.

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No, Ashley Vanderbilt did not escape Q

The terrible conclusion CNN did not report.

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The rape of the republic, felt but unsaid

Linking the assault of the body politic to the assault of a woman’s body.

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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene could look a Parkland massacre survivor in the eye and call him 'a coward'

What suffering and empathy tell us about politics.

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Why would the Republicans punish Marjorie Taylor Greene? She's doing what she's supposed to do

Sadism, it bears repeating, is the point.

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The Democrats' 'big, strong, bold' action should include efforts to renew loyalty to the republic

Reframing the question of doing too little or too much.

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Donald Trump's second impeachment trial in the Senate is more meaningful than you think

It's forcing the Republicans to declare their true loyalties.