Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially announced his presidential campaign Thursday. We've done one fact check so far -- about his claim that "we are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy." We found it Pants on Fire.
It's been a busy few weeks for PolitiFact. Here's what our readers had to say about what we did, and how well we did it.
It's an eye-catching -- if not eye-popping -- ad. But is the plan by Rep. Paul Ryan really tantamount to throwing Granny from the cliff?
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his run for the presidency in a web video. But he was less than accurate in two of his claims.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his run for the presidency in a web video. But he was less than accurate in two of his claims.
Both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner turned to the economy in recent comments. We found that each said something that earned a rating of False.
As President Barack Obama goes to the U.S.-Mexico border to talk immigration policy and border security, we review some of our major fact-checks on those issues.
Mitt Romney, a possible Republican presidential candidate, drew derision when he wrote in an op-ed that we're currently in "peacetime." But despite military action in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the distinctions betwen wartime and peacetime are no longer what they once were.
We gave a Pants on Fire rating to a Democratic ad that attacked the Republicans over proposed changes to Medicare. Many readers disagreed with our ruling and offered a wide variety of analogies involving the postal service, chickens and eagles to poke holes in our logic.
Major changes to Medicare in a proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan prompt some falsehoods from Democrats and pundits.
Since it's Tax Day, the deadline to file 2010 tax returns, we thought we'd hit you with a couple tax-related fact checks.
In an April 13, 2011, speech at George Washington University, President Barack Obama laid out his vision for America's fiscal future. He threw around a lot of numbers, and we were there to check.