In fact, his aides and allies took pains to describe his initial flurry of executive activity as “shock and awe,” reviving an ...

Pat Wallis of Little Rock, in a rather indignant letter to our Voices page the other day, decided to yank my chain and ...

Portraying violence, even jokingly, against groups of people or particular individuals is a slippery slope. The most recent example of our decent into incivility is a 28-second-long video posted ...

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting ... By the same token he says “WHO never really criticized China” when in fact we have called on China repeatedly to share information ...

Inaugural addresses, with their emphasis on lofty rhetoric, are generally not fertile ground for fact-checking ... rhetoric that is expressed more as an opinion — “for many years, a radical ...

The stakes are quite different. Far beyond freedom of opinion, it is once again the facts that are under attack, as well as the methods used to place them at the heart of public debate.

OUR national debt stood at P15.19 trillion ($273.9 billion) since October 2024. The country's gross domestic product (GDP) is valued at $471.5 billion, putting the share of our national debt at 58 ...

On Aug. 4, 2021, Instagram’s fact-checkers removed a post about the drug ivermectin. The post had come from the Cochrane Library, a highly respected international organization that collates and ...

Facebook parent Meta announced last week it would no longer work with nearly 100 independent fact-checking organizations to review its content and instead allow Facebook users to point out and ...

With President Trump’s inauguration coming up soon and Beijing already levying new export restrictions and sanctions, 2025 promises to be an eventful year for the U.S.-China trade war. And while ...

Review and Outlook: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan address the company’s decision to abandon its censorship regime, by walking back most of the platform ...

It's an important distinction, because when we investigate terrorist incidents and threats, we have to rely on the facts, not popular narratives. The same is true for preventing future attacks ...