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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 |
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.[1] The magazine has been described as a conservative blog.[2][3] The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication".[4]
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.[5] Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".[6] 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."[7]