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As mistrust and alienation from democratic institutions peaks, researchers explore how willing Americans are to commit violence

It’s 221 pages of God, guns, and election fraud claims

WASHINGTON — The committee investigating the Capitol insurrection will focus for the first time this week on the relationship between people in former President Donald Trump’s orbit and the extremist groups that planned and orchestrated the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.

DeSantis picked Cord Byrd, a Florida legislator who won't acknowledge Biden's 2020 win, to run Florida elections

As public trust in democratic institutions declines, conspiracy theories are filling the void

Republican Jerone Davison said he wants to ‘make rifles great again’

The fantasy that one is smarter than the rest of the "sheeple" can lead to self-delusion

Conspiracy theories have been around for centuries, from witch trials and antisemitic campaigns to beliefs that Freemasons were trying to topple European monarchies. In the mid-20th century, historian Richard Hofstadter described a “paranoid style” that he observed in right-wing U.S. politics and culture: a blend of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and…

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history