Tucker Carlson Archives - The Editorial Board.

Tucker Carlson’s ‘The End of Men’ is just ridiculous. It’s also a sign of liberal democracy in crisis

By John Stoehr / April 18, 2022 /

Take it seriously.

No, Carlson, Greenwald and the rest are not in Russian pay

By Noah Berlatsky / March 28, 2022 /

My editor is wrong. It’s worse than that.

The myth of the US funding secret biolabs in Ukraine is an old Russian disinfo campaign. Rightwing dupes are falling for it

By Lindsay Beyerstein / March 21, 2022 /

The latest smear of a US program to help former Soviet republics.

Want people to get vaccinated? Pay them

By Noah Berlatsky / January 12, 2022 /

We should value every life.

Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy

By Rod Graham / December 1, 2021 /

It’s not what it used to be.

Not your dad’s conservatives: Today’s GOP wants candidates to say how they’ll use the state to keep white people on top

By John Stoehr / October 20, 2021 /

See Glenn Youngkin’s vow to ban “CRT.”

To fight vaccine disinfo, first understand how anti-vaxxers coopt science to spread it

By Magdi Semrau / September 15, 2021 /

We should worry less about the ravings of anti-vaxxers obsessed with microchips, and more about the falsehoods that, enjoying a patina of scientific authority, are harder to identify and harder to correct.

Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug

By John Stoehr / September 3, 2021 /

The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.