When Attorney General Keith Ellison stepped before the public with news of a Duluth therapist accused of submitting nearly $2.2 million in false Medicaid claims, the announcement landed like a quiet shock. There was no dramatic arrest footage, no flashing lights, just the weight of a number so large it feels abstract. But behind the figure lies something far more human. This is not merely a story about billing codes and inflated reimbursement rates. It is a story about trust — the trust that a person places in a therapist when they walk through the door carrying anxiety, grief, trauma,…

When a hurricane tears through a coastal town or a flood swallows an entire neighborhood, the first thing many of us do is reach for our phones. We check on loved ones, we scroll for updates, we look for answers. But in that frantic blur of fear and uncertainty, we are also especially vulnerable to stories that tell us what to think and who to blame. A study published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, titled Amplifying the Storm, looks closely at this exact vulnerability. The researchers wanted to understand how right-wing extremist Telegram channels use natural disasters as…