For International Fact-Checking Day on April 2, Eric Litke, the leader of the USA Today fact-checking squad, asked who should be fact-checking the fact checkers? His answer: “Everyone.” He argued: “Proper fact-checking requires critical thinking, deep reporting, precise writing and an obsession with fairness. But most importantly, it requires transparency.” As a website, PolitiFact is fairly transparent, but studying its work does not lead everyone to find an “obsession with fairness.” Instead,...
For International Fact-Checking Day on April 2, Eric Litke, the leader of the USA Today fact-checking squad, asked who should be fact-checking the fact checkers? His answer: “Everyone.” He argued: “Proper fact-checking requires critical thinking, deep reporting, precise writing and an obsession with fairness. But most importantly, it requires transparency.” As a website, PolitiFact is fairly transparent, but studying its work does not lead everyone to find an “obsession with fairness.” Instead,...
The passing of former Florida senator and governor Bob Graham offers some
NBC news reported under the headline "Tammy Baldwin fights to maintain appeal in rural Wisconsin amid Democratic slide." The subhead is "The senator has outrun other members of her party in rural areas before. This November, she'll have to manage being on a ballot with Donald Trump." Here's the gist of the story: Baldwin is bracing for a tough re-election race against likely Republican nominee Eric Hovde, a multimillionaire and bank owner who loaned $8 million of his own money to his campaign...
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that President Joe Biden was "being influenced by the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party." | Clips
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Gaines was a three-term state representative for District 57, which covers St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes.
PITTSBURGH — If you drive throughout the city neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, the signs for Bahvini Patel far outpace those for incumbent Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), whom Patel is challenging in the Democratic Party for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District. The same goes for other city neighborhoods and the suburban enclaves that encompass the city-centric district. […]
The former president’s latest statement about reproductive rights on Truth Social is particularly telling
President Joe Biden responded to the possibility of not being put on the November ballot in Alabama.
The Democratic opposition to Donald Trump is getting shut down by mobs shouting abuse at Joe Biden supporters and disrupting events with physical intimidation and racial epithets — but it's not rabid Trump supporters who are partaking in this particular brand of "illiberal and dangerous" behavior, a columnist wrote Tuesday.It's members of the far-left, particularly pro-Palestinian activists. New Yorker columnist Jonathan Chait wrote that pro-Palestinian activists are either trying to teach the...
Minority voters are shifting from the Democratic Party, and a realignment around blue-collar, populist values will have important consequences for economic policy.