Conspiracies

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/3/2021
  

  Conspiracies in the Classroom

  by Elizabeth Stice

  "Colleges and universities and faculty have a responsibility to ground their disciplines in truth claims that go deeper than the rabbit holes of the internet and to graduate students who are capable of distinguishing between conspiracy and reality."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/14/2020
  

  Birtherism 2.0

  by Matthew Yglesias

  Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  The Attempted Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  In their new book, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch provide a remarkable and often riveting account of an alleged plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration in Washington in February 1861.