Bob Garfield

Political leaders have failed to consistently explain the science behind their pandemic policies. 

To document history or provide PR fodder for the government?

Gnosticism can help us understand the pseudo-intellectualism on the right.

What Parler & MeWe, new "free speech" platforms, tell us about the future of the far-right.

Democracy has had its say. But Trump and his supporters are trying to drown it out with their own version of reality.

An argument for abolishing election forecast models.

The "steal" the President's supporters hope to stop is a lie. It would also be improbably, impossibly difficult. 

America is more polarized than ever. How did we get to this place — and how can we get out of it?

Political consulting and dirty tricks as we know them today can be traced back to a single race — in 1934.

A look at Russian influencing campaigns and a homegrown network of "pink slime" local news sites.

On the never-ending story of Republicans "fleeing the ship," "whispering," "signaling a break," and "distancing themselves from Trump." 

After a foiled plot to kidnap a governor and blow up a bridge, the media rethinks who gets to be a "militia member" instead of a "domestic terrorist." 

Nate Silver on what 538 is doing differently — and what he's doing the same — this election.

GOP Senator Mike Lee tweeted, "We're not a democracy," tapping into an age-old anti-majoritarian strain of conservatism. 

Millennials aren't spoiled, they're exhausted.

Theres much more to the religious right than just white evangelicals.