Lisa Hagen
Lisa Hagen is a reporter at NPR covering the mainstreaming of extreme or unconventional beliefs. She's interested in how people form and maintain deeply held worldviews, and decide who to trust.
She previously co-reported and co-hosted the NPR investigative podcast No Compromise, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. The series explores fractures within the world of American gun rights activism that have steadily pulled gun culture to the far right. The podcast emerged from Hagen's work for WABE in Atlanta where she covered gun policy, and criminal and social justice in Georgia beginning in 2015. Before that, she worked as a stringer for the New York Post.
Hagen has a master's degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's from NYU's Gallatin School. Originally from Kahalu'u, Hawaii, Hagen does not know how to surf. She can, however, filet a salmon very quickly and tie her own fly-fishing flies. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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On Sunday, the chatbot was updated to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated." By Tuesday, it was praising Hitler. -
AI-generated videos of fighting between Iran and Israel went viral, and people asked chatbots if they were real. "What we're seeing is AI mediating the experience of warfare," said one researcher. -
Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance. -
Multiple people have given stiff-arm salutes after Elon Musk did it twice on Inauguration Day. Many claim it was a joke but extremism experts worry the once-taboo salute is getting normalized. -
Jack Posobiec, a prominent influencer, has a long history of promoting antisemitic and white supremacist content. He traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week. -
The order bars the government from "any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen" and orders an investigation into the Biden administration's actions. -
Prominent right-wing influencers are claiming that the response to the Los Angeles wildfires was hampered by workplace diversity policies. It's part of a wider strategy to discredit those policies. -
Trump's pick to head the FBI has parlayed his time serving in various national security roles in the first Trump administration to building a brand promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories. -
Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has focused his political organization on winning Trump another turn. But many longtime Republicans are concerned about the group's effectiveness.
