Bob Garfield

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.

Millennials aren't spoiled, they're exhausted.

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

Christian historians coined the idea that to be persecuted is to be righteous in the 4th century.

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

You think you know Paris Hilton. A new documentary might change your mind.

Polls and old-school campaign coverage miss this election’s defining crisis.

When people talk about child sex trafficking, what do they actually mean?

A film critiquing the sexualization of preteens was labeled as child porn by right-wing politicians.

The West Coast, aflame and awash in misinformation. 

A look back at the controversial presidential election whose disputed results nearly prompted a second Civil War. 

A social media disinformation expert on the challenges that Election Day may pose. 

Why a Kenosha-based journalist left the newsroom he loved. 

For decades, right-wing paramilitary groups despised law enforcement and the government. What changed?

Decay at the USPS is the result of decades of intentional neglect. Why do the media frame its downfall as inevitable?