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The “novelty hypothesis” explains how — and why — people fall for fake news bots
Sinan Aral
"Social bots" are spreading fake news — and humans are falling for them. Here's how
Colleges’ opening fueled 3,000 COVID cases a day, researchers say
Michael McAuliff
Teaching classes in person added 2.4 new infections a day per 100,000 people in a county, the study found.
Trump and his movement are evil — but the hope-peddlers in the chattering class won’t say so
Chauncey DeVega
Trump's threats against democracy shouldn't surprise anyone — why must the media caste keep acting so shocked?
Robert Reich on the 6 crucial races that will flip the Senate
Robert Reich
Here are six key races you should be paying attention to
As face masks become the norm, many wearers quietly suffer “mask anxiety”
Nicole Karlis
Most people with mask anxiety wear them anyway — they just feel like they can't breathe or get panicky
With COVID-19, vaccine messaging faces an unprecedented test
Jillian Kramer
A Covid-19 vaccine is coming. Will public health messaging be enough to convince Americans to get it?
Federal judge blocks Texas’ elimination of straight-ticket voting
Alex Samuels
Democrats sued the state in March to overturn the Texas Legislature’s removal of straight-ticket voting.
Ohio election officials secretly consulted promoter of debunked voting fraud fears
Mike Spies, Jake Pearson
Republicans consider Hans von Spakovsky the leading expert on voter fraud
These secret safety panels will pick the COVID vaccine winners
Rachana Pradhan
A secret panel of experts are tasked with reviewing crucial data on the safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines
Presidential campaigns take flight in the age of the coronavirus
Janet Bednarek
Private planes have become the preferred mode of transport for Joe Biden and Donald Trump amid COVID-19 challenges.
Outrage follows as Pentagon funnels millions meant for COVID supplies to private defense contractors
Jake Johnson
"If you can't get a COVID test or find an N95, it’s because these contractors stole from the American people"
Has the media woken up at last? Finally, alarm bells on Trump go off in top newsrooms
Dan Froomkin
It took two days — but network news and major papers seem to have grasped Trump's dire threat to our democracy
Trump unloads on Fox News after network polls shows Biden ahead in key swing states
AlterNet
“One of the worst polls in 2016 was the @FoxNews Poll," Trump tweets. "They were so ridiculously wrong"
GOP senator openly hopes Supreme Court battle will distract voters from 200,000 COVID-19 deaths
Brad Reed
“Either the election can be about Trump, or about COVID or about the Supreme Court,” Sen. Lamar Alexander says
Trump’s record in federal courts is the worst of any recent president
Sarah Okeson
Team Trump is losing case after case as states challenge efforts to rollback federal benefits and protections
Trump Tower Hicksville: Why is the Trump campaign sending rent checks to a Long Island P.O. box?
Roger Sollenberger
Trump campaign's rent payments to Hicksville, New York, might be of interest to a tax fraud investigation
Texas Republicans sue Gov. Greg Abbott to stop extended early voting amid the coronavirus pandemic
Roger Sollenberger
It's not the first time Abbott's own party targeted actions he has taken to mitigate coronavirus outbreaks
Trump’s own FBI director shoots down his bogus conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud
Alex Henderson
"We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election"
How William Barr could help Trump steal the election — and take the US to “a very dark place”
Alex Henderson
“Barr sounds more like a far-right-wing news pundit lately than the nation’s attorney general"
Exclusive: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis embraced QAnon conspiracy about COVID-19 death count in town hall
Roger Sollenberger
"When the final accounting is done," the actual death COVID-19 count will be lower, Tillis claims
Election day is nearing, but there’s no end in sight to Trump’s attacks on science
Derrick Z. Jackson
From coronavirus to un-natural disasters, the entire playbook of the Trump administration is to "play it down"
Why Trump is happy that Justice Ginsburg died
Terry H. Schwadron
Once again, Trump basks in the limelight, gets to play Supreme Court kingmaker instead of pandemic failure
Trump says he is “counting on the federal court system” to declare winner on election night
Jake Johnson
"This is an open admission that Trump hopes to use the Supreme Court to steal the election."
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