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Alex Jones
January 12, 2023
Prem Thakker
Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson Texted Each Other Conspiracy Theories Throughout the Pandemic
The most watched cable news network in America is taking at least some editorial direction from Infowars’ Alex Jones.
December 14, 2022
Matt Valentine
Nothing Has Changed Since Sandy Hook? That’s Simply Not True.
The gun control movement has won important legislative and legal victories since the massacre at the Connecticut elementary school a decade ago.
December 2, 2022
Tori Otten
Infowars’ Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy After Sandy Hook Verdict
The Infowars host and conspiracy theorist was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in damages earlier this year.
November 21, 2022
Tori Otten
Elon Musk Says He Won’t Allow Alex Jones on Twitter. Remember What He Said About Trump?
Elon Musk promised not to restore Alex Jones' Twitter account, just one day after letting Donald Trump come back to the platform.
October 31, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Right-Wing Media Is a Conspiracy Engine That Enables Political Violence
Conservatives’ despicable reactions to the attack on Paul Pelosi tell a horrific story about how dark the far-right’s media ecosystem has become.
August 5, 2022
Matt Ford
The Ecstasy of Watching Alex Jones Get Trounced in Court
The Infowars host and conspiracy monger is getting exactly what he deserves. A jury this week hit him with $50 million in damages—and the punishment has only just begun.
April 22, 2022
Daniel Strauss
January 6 Committee Recap: Alex Jones Wants to Talk. What Does He Know and About Whom?
Plus, Kimberly Guilfoyle already did talk; the Justice Department hired a new prosecutor; and McConnell and McCarthy were really, really mad after the insurrection ... until McCarthy wasn’t.
January 28, 2022
Grace Segers
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Daniel Strauss
January 6 Committee Recap: The Walls Continue to Close in on Trump and the Insurrectionists
The Justice Department gets serious, the Fulton County case against Trump takes a big step forward, and Seb Gorka steps on a rake.
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
April 3, 2020
Magazine
J.C. Pan
The Pandemic’s Shameless Profiteers
While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.
February 27, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Why the New Right Loves Nootropics
The ideologies behind mind optimization
September 3, 2019
Magazine
Richard Cooke
Right Brain
The conservative commentariat’s love affair with nootropics
July 3, 2019
Magazine
J.C. Pan
Democratic Rot and the Origins of American Conspiracism
Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.
September 6, 2018
Jeet Heer
With strange timing, Twitter finally bans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
September 5, 2018
Jeet Heer
Marco Rubio threatens to beat up Alex Jones.
August 28, 2018
Colin Dickey
A Pioneer of Paranoia
How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy
August 21, 2018
Alex Shephard
Why Jack Dorsey’s Apology Tour Backfired
The Twitter CEO is creating controversy on a media campaign designed to quell it.
August 17, 2018
Jeet Heer
Alex Jones accused of destroying evidence in the Sandy Hook lawsuits against him.
August 15, 2018
Jeet Heer
Twitter CEO suspends Alex Jones but still doesn’t understand who he is.
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