The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle This is Part 6. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are […]

The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle This is Part 6. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are

“The more I think about it,” Heather Cox Richardson said this week, “the more it seems the main story of the past decade has been Russian disinformation to undermine U.S. democracy.” This was a notable comment because Richardson follows all the major political stories from the perspective of a political historian, and she has been

In June of 2020, Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant, dropped a “bombshell.” His revelation: The owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, paid $5 million each to Joe Biden and Hunter Biden as a bribe in exchange for Biden, then Vice President, stopping an investigation into Burisma. Smirnov’s allegation became the basis for the Republican’s

I’ll start with some news: Tuesday was the publication date for my latest book, A Firehose of Falsehood.(I sent out birth announcements for my first book in 2001, and have done a birth announcement for each book since. OK, so it’s cheesy.) Let’s Talk about Demagogues The ancient Greeks gave us the word democracy. Demos