President Donald Trump promoted a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories during a late-night social media posting spree on Monday.

Much of the psychological research on conspiracy theories to date has focused on trying to explain why people believe them. But unlike the idiosyncratic and unshared nature of delusional thinking that's based on faith in subjective personal experience ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics. GEOFF BENNETT, PBS NEWSHOUR: You know, we spend a lot of time on this program looking at the political divide and the toxic discourse fueled by conspiracy theories and misinformation.

During the past 10,000 years—the Holocene—human societies became larger and ever more complex. An international team of scientists led by Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) set out to test various theories on what drove this ...

What originally started as an initiative involving primarily post-doctoral research associates has expanded in recent years, spawning a variety of programs for undergraduate and graduate students as well as an independent concentration that may eventually ...

The budding love story featuring music superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce took an unexpected turn into the world of political conspiracy theories this week after the team advanced to the Super Bowl. Myriad baseless rumors ...

Do political theorists and philosophers have methods? That is the question posed by Ingrid Robeyns, “a great Belgian feminist,” at Crooked Timber, where she is guest-blogging. Robeyns poses two questions: What are the methods of political theorists and ...

Crash Course: Political Theory is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio. In 2013, Aimee Stephens was fired ...