Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

Mitt Romney pounced on a comment that President Barack Obama made at a news conference that "the private sector is doing fine." Here's the statement in context.

The Obama and Romney campaigns have been sparring over the former Massachusetts' governor's job creation record. We sift through the data.

With the economy at the center of the presidential campaign, we check the numbers to see what's up and what's down.

Coming today on PolitiFact is a scorecard of the U.S. economy under President Barack Obama.

Our fact-check on a Facebook claim that President Barack Obama isn't as big a spender as many people think drew lots of support from Obama backers and a barrage of criticism from opponents. We recap the debate.

A column in MarketWatch that busted stereotypes about the tax-and-spend Democratic stereotype was turned into a Facebook post that went viral. We checked the facts.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker touched off a kerfuffle when he criticized the Obama campaign for hammering Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital. Booker's video response was interpreted as a backtrack. But how much did he really backtrack?

Newark Mayor Cory Booker touched off a kerfuffle when he criticized the Obama campaign for hammering Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital. Booker's video response was interpreted as a backtrack. But how much did he really backtrack?

We use our Flip-O-Meter to explore whether Romney flipped on issues such as abortion, gun control and TARP. We find some Full Flops -- and some No Flips.

As usual, our readers unloaded their thoughts on us in recent weeks. Here's a sampling of recent reader e-mails and tweets.

With the GOP nomination battle settled, the general election campaign is well under way. Here, we take a look at recent fact-checks of statements by President Barack Obama and his campaign.

A statistic about college grads returning home got repeated by the media without scrutiny. Here's a look at how it ended up in an American Crossroads ad.