Hard-right groups and commentators — particularly openly racist groups — have used the killing of Charlie Kirk to promote ...

In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media influencers, media outlets and politicians used the killing to promote some of the ...

Put on your tinfoil hats: New research finds that belief in conspiracy theories might be more common in the U.S. than you might think. "A fair number of people heard about and believe these ...

The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, ...

Chinese actor Yu Menglong’s death on September 11 was ruled an accident, but chilling online rumours, leaked recordings, and ...

The man who allegedly shot United Healthcare’s CEO has inspired a seemingly never-ending flood of conspiracy theories about everything from his eyebrows to the number 286. This is the online world of ...

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...