As soon as Alternate Realities publishes, Zach Mack calls his dad to hear his reactions to the series. The conversation takes an unexpected turn,... Alternate Realities: Double or Nothing Just after ...

Conspiracies have been a force in American politics for a long time now. NPR's Embedded has a new series out looking at the way they've divided one family. Last year, reporter Zach Mack's father ...

Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, they ...

After we released Alternate Realities, hundreds of listeners reached out, sharing stories about friends and family members who had also fallen under the spell of conspiracy theories. Many of them had ...