“There are long-term threats to democracy, including racism, capitalism, imperialism, the inequality of wealth and income, and failing media,” says Matt Rothschild from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. “But the short-term […]
Alex Jones and the Right-Wing Media Machine
Last week, right-wing radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered by a Texas court to pay out nearly $50 million in punitive damages for his insistence that […]
The Buffalo Shooting, In Context
On May 14, 2002, eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron walked into a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and opened fire. He killed ten people and wounded three […]
Bridging the Gap: Birds Aren’t Real
The “Birds Aren’t Real” movement is here to protest the genocide of birds and government surveillance, or so it seems. A parody social movement started by Peter McIndoe was created […]
Fiddler & Shoots Production Company on the Access Hour
Fiddler & Shoots Production Company discusses how they started their company and what they do to keep it afloat. To give a quick summary, it all started in 2020 out […]
Investigating COVID Origins and Conspiracy Theories
Scientists are beginning to acknowledge the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a Wuhan lab—an idea that began as a conspiracy theory but is now being seriously considered in scientific investigations […]