American Thinker
American Thinker is a daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a politically conservative viewpoint. It was founded in 2003 by attorney Ed Lasky, health-care consultant Richard Baehr, and sociologist Thomas Lifson, and initially became prominent in the lead-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election for its attacks on then-candidate Barack Obama. The magazine has been described as a conservative blog. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication".
Type of site | News, commentary |
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Available in | English |
Founded | March 2003 |
Headquarters | El Cerrito, California, United States |
Founder(s) | Ed Lasky, Richard Baehr, Thomas Lifson |
Key people | Thomas Lifson, editor-in-chief Ed Lasky, news editor |
URL | americanthinker |
Launched | November 2003 |
Current status | Active |
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud. Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories". The American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."