Beet juice has become a kind of wellness celebrity, appearing in bright purple bottles at gyms, in smoothie bowls, and in eager Instagram posts promising everything from faster sprints to lower blood pressure. There is something satisfying about the idea that a humble root vegetable could unlock better workouts and keep your heart healthy, as if nature had hidden a performance-enhancing drug inside something you can roast for dinner. And there is real science underneath that glow: beets are rich in nitrate, a compound that can enter the body’s nitric oxide pathways. Nitric oxide is central to how blood vessels…

Imagine scrolling through social media and coming across a video that looks like it was produced by Mother Jones, a respected independent magazine. The headline is explosive: the Democratic National Committee paid CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, a staggering $259 million to promote gender transition among children. The video shows the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Clara Jeffery, praising a supposed hack by the group Anonymous, calling it a “great gift” that exposes the moral decay of Democrats and their media allies. It even ends with the familiar Mother Jones card: “Read more at MotherJones.com.” In just a day, the video racked up…