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Art Imitates Life

Oliver Stone’s controversial 1991 political thriller JFK was fiction that poked real holes in the official account of the president’s death.

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Iconoclashes

Conspiracy theories are rife with esoteric motifs. But what do those symbols actually represent?

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Aliens Built the Pyramids

Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all. Some people suspect that humanity’s greatest achievements aren’t human achievements at all.

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Urban Legends, Urban Truths

The 1998 B-list slasher film Urban Legend unleashes on its protagonists a host of horrors from the American folk canon. Some have their roots in real life.

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The Land of Milk and Honey

The Caribbean has a reputation for its lenient tax laws, but the United States is the second-biggest tax haven in the world.

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Sea Change

There remains a fortune to be made at sea — but no longer in Somalia. Modern pirates have turned their attention to the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.

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Illness as Metaphor

Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. Beginning in 2018, another two-year wave of the devastating disease caused a further 2,000 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These days, even when Ebola itself isn’t spreading, false conspiracy theories about it are.

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Royal Treatment

People have been speculating about the British royal family for centuries. You decide which conjectures might be true.

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Friends in High Places

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia — not to mention the man behind the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — has a host of American celebrity friends.

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