Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland in 1818. Although born into slavery, Douglass was fortunate enough to escape to the north as a young man, and there he became an ardent abolitionist. Douglass ...

Conspiracy theories often emerge when people join up seemingly small, unrelated pieces of evidence and piece them together into a larger, often sinister, picture. Conspiracy theories about the Moon ...

There are two kinds of people in the world: People who say, “What a coincidence,” and people who say, “Just a coincidence.” Same facts, different reactions. Are you the “what a” kind or the “just a” ...

Whether or not such people actually think differently, there's got to be an identifiable psychological component. Grandiosity? Those bitten hardest by the conspiracy theory bug seem to take particular ...