Politics

Welcome to the modern American Right – the world that high weirdness built

The 2024 US election campaign has illustrated the ongoing influence of 'high weirdness' in the MAGA movement and modern conservatism

Donald Trump’s debate performance proved he has mainstreamed extreme conspiracy theories

Trump's debate lies showed us a useful truth - just how much of his information he gets from conspiracy theorists and online extremists

Trump’s lies aside, what is the basis for our revulsion at the idea of eating cats and dogs?

Trump falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs, but we can question the moral revulsion to eating some animals, but not others

JD Vance is right – for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy

Professors seek the truth, and the truth is something that politicians like JD Vance fear, because it can reveal their agenda as being fascist.

The UK riots showed why we have to dismantle the far-right’s misinformation machines

The UK riots were powered by misinformation - in plain sight on Twitter, and through racist conspiracy theories in covert Telegram groups

The 2024 UK General Election came with lessons that skeptics should listen to

There have always been parties pushing fringe beliefs at elections, but Reform saw significant gains by courting the conspiracist vote - we need to pay attention

What does the recent UK election mean for skepticism and pseudoscience?

The recent UK election saw conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers leave office, and pseudoscience candidates fail at the ballot box

Donald Trump’s survival was no miracle – unlikely things happen, without supernatural interference

Donald Trump's supporters have attributed his failed assassination attempt to a miracle, to bolster the claims that he's a candidate chosen by God
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