Rush Limbaugh

Whether you like Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, or Sean Hannity, you're engaging the media world created by the late radio host.

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

How the alienated margins arrived at the center of American politics.

A new book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing traces the path from Ronald Reagan’s antigovernment ideology to today’s radicalized right.

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

Economic and social issues with roots in the 1994 midterms are still being debated today.

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.

A return to the fairness doctrine wouldn't curb the damage caused by the far-right media ecosystem fueling much of America's conspiracy-driven politics.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The conservative media made this president, and the conservative media will keep him in office.

Make America reality-based again.

The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.

John Ganz offers a whirlwind tour of the cranks, conservatives, and con artists who helped remake the American right at the turn of the 21st century.

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

The prominence of politicos-turned-pundits is a product of cable news' turn to opinion commentary as a cheap and easy way to meet the needs of 24/7 coverage.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

Ideas dating back to slavery have minimized opportunities for Black quarterbacks in the NFL.