The internet's reactionary machinery is churning at full force after Lindsey Graham's sudden death and Mitch McConnell's ...

Outside the state district court where the preliminary hearing of a man charged with shooting Charlie Kirk was about to begin ...

Prominent figures in the conservative and MAGA movements have led the charge in spreading baseless conspiracy theories about ...

Right-wing influencers sparred over the case this week as a court hearing laid out detailed evidence in Kirk's shooting.

Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap in popular culture, yet research has shown that most Americans believe conspiracy theories of some sort. Why then, if most of us believe conspiracies, do we ...

Prominent economist Paul Samuelson wrote in Newsweek in 1966, “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” One could say something similar ...

I have been researching the psychology of conspiracy beliefs for seven years now and people often ask me why people believe in them. This is not a simple question. There are many reasons people might ...

Do you like scary movies, true crime podcasts, or violent sports? Research finds that a major part of the attraction is their appeal to morbid curiosity. If the drive to seek out conspiracy theories ...

Belief in conspiracy theories is more than just a fringe phenomenon. From COVID-19 hoaxes to political cover-ups, conspiracy thinking has infiltrated every corner of society. Despite the ease of ...

Conspiracy theories run wild at Denver International Airport since it opened in 1995. In the past few years, though, airport officials have taken the reigns by embracing them as a way to to connect ...

When a water agency for most of California’s Inland Empire and parts of Orange County started a pilot program to seed clouds in the region in November to see if it could increase water supplies, ...

At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon. But what if is ...