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For some Muslims, Ramadan couldn’t have come at a better time, writes @YasmeenSerhan:http://on.theatln.tc/fYMUQis 

Lots of moms drink wine, but only some are “wine moms.” @AshleyFetters untangles a fraught cultural history:http://on.theatln.tc/gsZKL9Q 

Does your movie-marathon queue need more variety? Here are 30 films that flout convention, recommended by @davidlsims:http://on.theatln.tc/zwJjgLs 

"The holy month is supposed to disrupt everyday life, but this year it has been disrupted by a worldwide calamity. Muslims globally are experiencing the strangest Ramadan ever," Uzma Jalaluddin writes:http://on.theatln.tc/lMhsrDQ 

12/12 Read these stories, and uncover the long history of conspiracy theories at http://theatlantic.com/shadowland :

11/ And @robinsloan imagines what the world would look like if conspiracy theories reigned supreme, in his short story, “The Conspiracy Museum.” “Inside, you will find a literal hall of mirrors ... a kind of counter-history.”http://on.theatln.tc/LH4eYKY 

10/ But what makes conspiracism so irresistible? @elcush, the “Shadowland” editorial director and a former conspiracy theorist, writes that at their best, conspiracies are “a reminder to both those with power and those without it that someone is watching”http://on.theatln.tc/YdHLl9W 

9/ @kait_tiffany uncovers how the devices keeping us connected during the coronavirus—cell phones and 5G—became suspected killers. “In the case of anti-wireless activism, the scope of the conspiracy widens to the point where it becomes a worldview.”http://on.theatln.tc/mS8fQ7x 

8/ Conspiracy theories aren’t limited to politics. @MeganGarber examines how reality television rationalized paranoia. “Reality TV really does encourage viewers to question everything—in part because it nullifies the distinction between fiction and fact.”http://on.theatln.tc/f3skV6h 

7/ One American News has cultivated an audience hungry for conspiracies, @DevinGordonX writes. In recent years, the media outlet has become a favorite of the president’s and “an extension of the besieged, paranoid worldview that got him elected.”http://on.theatln.tc/dfrGK01 

6/ Birtherism—the belief that Barack Obama was born abroad—is more than a conspiracy theory, @AdamSerwer argues. It is “a way to express allegiance to a particular notion of American identity, one that became the central theme of the Trump campaign.”http://on.theatln.tc/p20QJlE 

5/ @JeffreyGoldberg examines how conspiracism became a threat to democracy. “Nonsense is nonsense, except when it kills. And conspiracy thinking, especially when advanced by the president of the United States, is an existential threat."http://on.theatln.tc/0l9ZaE7 

4/ In our June cover story, @AdrienneLaF dives into the pro-Trump world of QAnon, a conspiracy theory with messianic overtones and dark predictions. And it’s a harbinger of a world where facts and reality don’t matter.http://on.theatln.tc/L8CHMBN