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Baron Guy de Rothschild (standing) speaking during a press conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Rothschild Brothers Bank, watched by Baron Elie de Rothschild (left) and Baron Alain de Rothschild (right), April 26th 1967. (Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Do Jewish bankers control the weather? A short history of this dumb but ugly conspiracy theory

Kathryn Joyce
A GOP attempt to troll Biden reveals too much: From 200 years of antisemitic paranoia to MTG's space lasers
Police gather at the scene of a shooting at the 36 St subway station on April 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. According to authorities, at least 29 people were reportedly injured, including 10 with gunshot wounds, during a shooting at the 36th Street and Fourth Avenue station in the Sunset Park neighborhood. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Media blows New York subway shooting story

Amanda Marcotte
Cities aren't the problem. Guns are the problem
Ron DeSantis and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans follow Putin’s playbook: Target LGBTQ rights first

Amanda Marcotte
Before Florida's "don't say gay" law, Putin used "groomer" accusations to gut LGBTQ rights in Russia
David Mamet meets the audience during the 11th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on October 18, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)

David Mamet says teachers are “inclined to pedophilia,” perpetuating right-wing grooming rhetoric

Joy Saha
The playwright is making his right-wing media tour, hitting up Joe Rogan, Fox News and more
A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The goal of the GOP’s QAnon-influenced “groomer” troll: More political violence

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans don't really think liberals are "grooming" children — but they know saying so is permission to violence
U.S. President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's ungodliness was the cover that allowed the Christian right to hide in plain sight — now they're growing
Supporters of President Donald J. Trump before the start of the rally. At the Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township, PA Saturday afternoon October 31, 2020 where United States President Donald J. Trump spoke during a campaign rally for his bid for reelection. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Boycotting Disney and Oreos: The red flags that MAGA is a cult

Amanda Marcotte
Cutting followers off from the rest of the world is a standard cult tactic — and a central tenet of Trumpism
An American flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a same-sex marriage support rally in West Hollywood celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26, 2015 (Getty Images/Joe Kohen)

Tennessee’s child marriage bill pushes another purpose: Gutting same-sex marriage

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans signaled a way to gut Obergefell during KBJ's hearing — now red state legislators are heeding the call
Oreo Cookies (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“I do not like gay cookies”: Conservatives vow to boycott Oreo over new ad

Ashlie D. Stevens
Right-wing talking heads Greg Kelly and Ben Shapiro vow to boycott "gay cookies" after Oreo releases LGBTQ film
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his address to the nation at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 21, 2022. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm

Amanda Marcotte
The American right bet on Russia's swift victory in Ukraine to push authoritarianism at home — now they're spinning
Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former president Donald J Trump hold a Save America rally in Perry, GA, United States on September 25, 2021 (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump’s “hole-in-one” and Herschel Walker’s “degree”: Why MAGA loves lies too big to be believed

Amanda Marcotte
Trump taught Republicans that the GOP base loves to hear lies — so the more ridiculous the lie, the better
Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Disney hysteria and litter boxes: Republicans’ deeply odd war on LGBTQ people escalates

Amanda Marcotte
The new Republican war on LGBTQ right is a full-blown "Satanic panic"-style frenzy of urban legends — and violence
Madison Cawthorn and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Madison Cawthorn’s cocaine-and-orgies brouhaha blows up the GOP’s QAnon plan

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans dish out titillating lies about Democrats, liberal judges and even Disney — but now they can't take it
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland | Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Merrick Garland is ignoring the DOJ’s original mission: Battling seditionists like Donald Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Democrats beg Garland: "Do your job." Taking out white supremacist conspiracies is why Department of Justice exists
Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights

Amanda Marcotte
Having conquered the Supreme Court, the GOP take aim at same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination laws, and even Pride
Virginia and Clarence Thomas | Supporters of the "Peoples Convoy" wave US flags as the truck convoy heads east on Interstate Highway 70, on March 1, 2022, near St. Jacob, Illinois (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ginni Thomas and the truckers’ convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories

Amanda Marcotte
Both Ginni Thomas and the People's Convoy are driven by a rage that is fueled entirely by lies and fantasies
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, testifies on the fourth day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in Washington D C. Bork was rejected by the Senate. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker/CNP)

Why Republican cries about Robert Bork still ring hollow

Jon Skolnik
Republicans now insist that each Supreme Court nomination starts where the last left off
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds up a book on antiracism as he questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

6 Republicans who used the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings to throw out the wildest right-wing memes

Jack Ahern
A gang of right-wing senators devolved the Supreme Court proceedings into an abject and pusillanimous circus
Sen. Ted Cruz (lower left) (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (top left) (R-MO) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (top right) (R-TN) confer during a break in testimony for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

With their QAnon circus as cover, Republicans covertly unveil plans to undo decades of settled law

Amanda Marcotte
During Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearing, the GOP winked at plans to overturn Supreme Court precedents on marriage
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Racist babies: Republicans reduced to white wailing at first Black woman nominated to Supreme Court

Amanda Marcotte
From attacks on interracial marriage to "white privilege" whining, Republicans triggered by Ketanji Jackson Brown
Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ted Cruz turns Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing into rehabilitation of Brett Kavanaugh

Amanda Marcotte
Ted Cruz uses hearing for first Black female nominee to downplay Kavanaugh allegations as "teenage dating habits"
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a QAnon sign in fron of the U.S. Capitol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a QAnon circus

Amanda Marcotte
Josh Hawley just previewed his QAnon-flavored lie that Joe Biden's nominee protects child pornographers
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Won’t someone, anyone stand up to protest Tucker Carlson, Putin’s biggest fanboy?

Kirk Swearingen
Marina Ovsyannikova stood up against Putin's war propaganda. Won't someone do the same to Putin's No. 1 fan?
The New York Times Building is seen in New York City on February 4, 2021. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

What the New York Times doesn’t get about free speech and “cancel culture”

Amanda Marcotte
In a editorial, the board equates book-banning with "social silencing" people for bigoted opinions
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