“The world is more chaos than we like to imagine,” Bryce Reh tells Anna Merlan in her book, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power. “The faster we come to ...
The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, announced the hiring today of Anna Merlan as Senior Reporter, who will cover technology, extremism, and disinformation.
Since its founding, America has been fertile ground for conspiracy beliefs. While every generation produces rumor-mongers, today we anoint them with special powers through social media. Anna Merlan, a ...
Alex Jones, a right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, arrives at a courthouse in Austin, Texas, on April 19, 2017. (Jay Janner / AP) There’s a moment in Anna Merlan’s new book, Republic of Lies ...
The 17th-century minister Cotton Mather believed Native Americans were “conspiring with [the Devil]” to dislodge white colonists. Today, the radio host Alex Jones asserts that a coterie of state ...
Politics & Government 5,000 People Will Get Tickets to the JFK Memorial, and None Can Have “Extremist Ties” By Anna Merlan ...
Reality star Kate Merlan (39) reports a shocking crime in New York City. As she was about to film in front of a store, a man was shot dead inside the shop in broad daylight. "I'm really scared right ...
In a polarized and fractured society, the truth can be a subjective thing. In this panel, Rolling Stone Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief Andy Kroll talks to Vice journalist Anna Merlan (Republic of Lies) ...