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As Winter Storm Rex moves across the Midwest, Minnesotans are again canceling their non-critical appointments and breaking out the rock salt. Peering out the back door and into the storm,…

…the election. But even the meddling theory is suspect now. Relentless sleuthing by investigative journalists on the right (and some on the left) has rightly put question marks on all…

…to such noxious elements within its ranks. Fans of the hit Netflix series “The Crown” may remember a scene in which Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip discuss an intriguing theory…

…Khusyaynova allegedly conspired to violate? The DOJ’s theory is that Khusyaynova failed to register as a “foreign agent” with the DOJ before conspiring to engage in political speech. Its argument…

…that it “is no easy problem” to decide what Locke meant. Cambridge’s Peter Laslett called Locke “perhaps the least consistent of the great philosophers.” George Sabine’s once-dominant political theory text…

…bring countless decisions an individual could potentially make within the scope of federal regulation, and—under the Government’s theory—empower Congress to make those decisions for him. By contrast, the act of…

…Ku Klux Klan whose views that whites were a superior race were rooted in Social Darwinism. But Wilson famously invoked Darwin in other contexts as well, most notably regarding government…

…into Jack Smith’s office. He was Mueller’s appellate guy,” enthused Marcy Wheeler, a proponent of the debunked conspiracy theory that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia….

…theory to explain the origins of the novel coronavirus as a conspiracy theory. In 2012, Fauci once defended the research as worth the risk of a pandemic. A treasure trove…

…December last year that the goalposts would be moved as the collusion theory deflated. For all those who remember the early days, immediately after Trump’s election, there was no nuance…

…the progression of cultures, and that race is naturally a deep component of personal identity. These arguments can get a lot of oxygen in a world already obsessed with race….

…theory does not withstand scrutiny. At the time the FBI launched operation Crossfire Hurricane, it knew only that Papadopoulos had learned from an individual with Russia connections that Russia had…

…When was the last time you saw someone lay out the arguments for and against a certain scientific or political theory, with each side’s answers to the other’s objections? Rather…

…the working poor? To answer this question, we turn briefly to our Bootlegger/Baptist theory, a theory that explains why politics can attract such strange bedfellows. The theory is based on…

Obama administration National Security Advisor Susan Rice spread a baseless conspiracy theory Saturday, accusing federal agents in Portland of working for a private security firm named “ZTI.” “We need answers…

…federal office. Former Judge Michael Luttig and Professor Laurence Tribe have enthusiastically seconded the theory. While their theory about the continuing relevance of the Constitution’s insurrection clause strikes us as…

…same term could be used regardless of the political views of those doing the investigations. In any case, the Resistance theory goes that because of this unverified story, Nunes should…

…the activity. Researchers have advanced several theories about the negative correlation between premarital sex and marriage quality. One theory is what sociologists C.E. Rusbult and B.P. Pluunk call “Interdependence Theory,”…

…Kramer has led a lonely charge against two pillars of banality in U.S. foreign policy: linkage and democracy promotion. “‘Linkage’ might best be described as a domino theory peculiar to…

…Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the organization at the center of the lab leak theory. Members of the WHO panel of investigators have already said they don’t believe the virus…

…and political assembly. Second, it was not, in fact, false to say that the 2020 election was riddled with problems. On the contrary, it is a conspiracy theory to say…

…leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations…

…constructing whole new disciplines out of dust (Race theory! Gender theory! Queer theory!), finding oppression and exploitation under every stone. Then there was the other obvious problem: Not everyone was…

…Nevertheless, everywhere except a slim Supreme Court majority, they have successfully transformed a government prohibition tethered to natural rights theory into an instrument of ordinary politics infused with egalitarianism. The…

…with anonymous sources inside the government and Democratic offices to spread the false conspiracy theory that Trump was a traitor who had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election…

…the deepest foundations of Marx’s theory, making the continued popularity of that theory deadly to the future of free speech. This fact is definitely philosophically relevant. Robert Tracinski is a…

The New York Times just published an extraordinary “retro report”—a short video paired with an article—looking back at Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” theory, the fear that an uncontrolled human population…

…lab-leak theory as a “conspiracy” that created “fear, rumors, and prejudice.” Facebook “fact-checkers” used the letter to censor discussion of the lab-leak theory for more than a year. It then…

…principle of science—one still known to conference attendees—that when a theory made predictions that were not just wrong, but lousy, we knew with certainty that the theory was false, that…

…not to infringe it. That is standard natural rights theory. It explains where our rights come from, which is important to understand the theory of rights, but it also has…

Many media figures have swallowed whole, without evidence, a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump became president by treasonously colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election from its rightful owner,…

…of SARS-COV-2’s features “(potentially) look engineered” and that he and his colleagues “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Fauci later blasted the “lab origin theory” as…

…which is sometimes referred to as “The Theory of Everything.” This theory initially sought to explain electromagnetism and gravity; nuclear force was added in the 1930s, and by the 1950s…

…The committee spun that narrative by highlighting “an email recommending that Mr. Klukowski and Dr. Eastman brief Vice President Pence and his staff,” apparently on that theory. However, as Klukowski…

Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. While smaller in scale than other…

…then proceeded to push the narrative that the researchers all stood by the Alfa Bank theory, with Joffe’s attorney claiming their research “culminated in the well-supported conclusions that were ultimately…