O n the morning of March 19, 2000, Florian Reither learned what it felt like to scrape the sky. He’d just stepped out of the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center through a hollowed-out window. Now, as Sunday’s dawn cracked, Reither — dressed in a …
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On the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, I trudged into my office in Midtown Manhattan, still shellshocked from having watched the Twin Towers collapse to the ground the day before from the roof of my apartment building in the West Village. I was an editor at Maxim, at the time …
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People often ask me why I do what I do. Why go undercover to expose extremist Republicans like Senator Ron Johnson, Trump coup attorney John Eastman, or Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito? Can’t you just ask them for an interview? To give you a fuller context for my motivation requires …
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Conspiracy theorist and MAGA devotee Laura Loomer accompanied former President Donald Trump to a 9/11 remembrance event in Manhattan on Wednesday. Loomer may be best known for chaining herself to the doors of Twitter’s headquarters after she was banned from the platform, and has pushed conspiracy theories — including about …
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Olivia, a 21-year-old college student, was sitting in an English class at her Minnesota school last week when her professor began talking about the challenges in writing about traumatic events. But when he used 9/11 as an example, and described to the class how hectic things seemed that day, she …
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken a bold stance on 9/11 conspiracy theories: he won’t actually pick a side. After a rollercoaster week during which Kennedy faced allegations of sexual assault and of having eaten a dog, while publicly declaring that he would never engage in cannibalism, …
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After an exhaustive yearlong search to find the show’s next host, Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show on a part-time basis, just in time for the 2024 election season. But he won’t be doing it alone. He’ll host Monday night’s broadcast beginning Feb. 12, with a roster of …
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Ladies and gentlemen, it appears Aaron Rodgers, who’s taken a grand total of four snaps as quarterback of the New York Jets, has lost his mind. This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. considers himself a “skeptic” willing to question authority and interrogate official narratives. Others might identify the political scion as an enthusiastic peddler of conspiracy theories about everything from Covid-19 to his uncle’s assassination. Those keeping score at home can now add 9/11 to the list of …
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