Excerpted from the book Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan, published by Metropolitan Books. Copyright © 2019 by Anna Merlan. Reprinted with permission. Available for purchase here. “The white majority are fed up with all of these lying, cheating, thieving, war-mongering, …

New Zealand police have charged six people with illegally redistributing live-streamed videos and images of the March 15th shootings at Christchurch mosques. They’re being charged with supplying or distributing objectionable material, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Philip Arps, 44, and an unnamed suspect, 18, appeared …

A day after releasing her new album The Medicine Show, Melissa Etheridge appeared on CBS This Morning to showcase a pair of tracks from her new LP as well as perform one of her classics. As part of the series’ Saturday Sessions, Etheridge delivered renditions of “Wild and Lonely,” “Faded …

A new book will provide an intimate look at Jeff Buckley‘s creative process and personal life using reproductions of his handwritten lyrics, diary entries and letters. The singer’s mother, Mary Guibert, co-wrote the upcoming Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice with Rolling Stone Senior Writer and Buckley biographer David Browne. The …

Rep. Ilhan Omar is once again being targeted by Republicans and right-wing media. Once again, the attacks against the Muslim lawmaker are clouded in bad faith. The latest round of outrage comes in light of comments Omar made last month at a Council on American-Islamic Relations event in Los Angeles, …

The patriarch of the Bundy clan, whose sons staged the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, has been laughed out of court by a Nevada judge who called the rancher’s claims about federal lands “simply delusional” and “fundamentally flawed.” Cliven Bundy is an infamous (his fans might …

One of the most striking takeaways of the trial of Anna Delvey, née Sorokin, a.k.a. the “Soho Grifter,” the self-styled German “heiress” who is accused of bilking hotels and restaurants of hundreds of thousands of dollars, is just how easy it was for her to gain access to institutions that …

Killing Eve is back for Season Two. A review of the premiere, “Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?”, coming up just as soon as I can bring myself to put on these Crocs… “Normal is boring. I’m not normal, you know.” -Villanelle As with Barry, there were …

Chris Shiflett toured American alongside Blackberry Smoke earlier this year, kicking off the promo cycle for his upcoming solo album, Hard Lessons, with a handful of shows supporting the Georgia-based country-rockers. Months later, he sits down with frontman Charlie Starr and drummer Brit Turner for a new episode of Walking …

It’s well established that women in country music are underrepresented when it comes to radio, award nominations and headline spots at festivals, and now Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have some new research data to back it up. Using the year-end Billboard HotCountrycharts from 2014 …