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With the 2022 election ramping up, we are returning to our monthly “High Five” feature, a quick look at the five items that drew the most readers in the preceding month. Given the massive impact of the coronavirus, and the continuing economic fallout, it should come as little surprise that a virus-related item took the […]

The 2020 election was more than two months ago, but everything will come to a head — yet again — on Jan. 6, 2021. That’s when Congress is to do its constitutionally prescribed — and in most years primarily ceremonial — task of opening and counting the Electoral College votes from each state. When that […]

Given the massive impact of the coronavirus, and efforts by elected officials to fight the global pandemic, it should come as little surprise that virus-related items took four of the five top spots on PolitiFact Wisconsin’s list of most-clicked items for April 2020. Here is a look at our monthly “High Five.” 1. State Republican Legislative […]

Given the massive impact of the coronavirus, and efforts by elected officials to fight the global pandemic, it should come as little surprise that a virus-related item topped PolitiFact Wisconsin’s list of most-clicked items for March 2020. Here is a look at our monthly “High Five.” 1.  Kenosha Democratic Party: “WI is the ONLY state […]

President Donald Trump has often boasted of how well the U.S. economy is doing on his watch.

During the State of the Union address, Trump said unemployment was the lowest it has been for half a century, but it was a related claim -- about the number of people working in the U.S. -- that was our most-clicked item in February 2020.

 

PolitiFact takes a look at the top fact-checks that closed out the year 2019. 

PolitiFact Wisconsin's 'High Five' for the year 2019 includes fact-checks on former presidential contender Hillary Clinton's claims about Wisconsin voters, Minnesota vs. Wisconsin on number of lakes, and much more. 

PolitiFact Wisconsin's 'High Five' for November feature fact-checks on presidential inquiries, African American males in the penal system, impeachment rights of Trump, Clinton and Nixon and more. 

PolitiFact Wisconsin's 'High Five' for October feature fact-checks on millionaires using food stamp benefits, background checks. business investment growth and more.

 

Topping the 'High Five' for September include claims by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Wisconsin state Sen. Alberta Darling

 Milwaukee’s ills -- crime, poverty, poor housing -- are measured in studies, and the 53206 ZIP code frequently comes out on top. But is it really on top in African American incarceration rates?

Readers of PolitiFact Wisconsin zeroed in on fact-checks that mass shootings are down under Trump, a claim that China is paying U.S. farmers $16 billion through tariffs and more.