Latest Stories By Jon Greenberg

This year marks the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth but only the second year it’s been celebrated as a federal holiday. Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., garnered national attention in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd. While the nation underwent another racial reckoning, advocates fought for solidified recognition for June […]

For a month before the attack on the Capitol, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were locked in a running battle. Trump was adamant that Pence had the power to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. Pence was just as adamant that he did not. In the […]

Former President Donald Trump has made the “stolen” 2020 election the centerpiece of his post-White House political life. Virtually every statement he sends out invokes the false theme. The polling shows it has been effective, not just with the crowd that stormed the Capitol on his behalf on Jan. 6, 2021, but with members of […]

If former President Donald Trump believed he won the 2020 election, it wasn’t because his hand-picked team told him he had. They told him precisely the opposite. Trump repeatedly rejected advice and blunt assessments about his loss, according to numerous accounts shared during June 13 testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, […]

Former Attorney General William Barr denigrated evidence of voter fraud presented in the documentary “2000 Mules” as “singularly unimpressive” during his interview with House committee investigators looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The film from right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza tried to make the case that massive fraud took place in the 2020 presidential election. […]

Members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol had said they would document a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with President Donald Trump sitting in the very center. During its first primetime hearing, the committee’s presentation emphasized that Trump — contrary to every public statement he made, […]

After nearly a year of interviewing hundreds of witnesses and assembling a paper trail of texts, emails and financial records, the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol will make its case to the American public. In its first hearing, in evening primetime June 9, the House select committee will […]

Stacey Abrams basically asked us to fact-check her. The Georgia Democrat running for governor tweeted that Georgia’s residents face a host of problems, and she listed them.  “We’re #48 in mental health, #2 in uninsured. #1 in maternal mortality and new HIV cases, #9 in gun violence,” she tweeted May 21, 2022. GA may be […]

Our fact-check on President Joe Biden’s claim about mass shooting deaths rising after the assault weapon ban expired in 2004 sparked a generally well-informed debate from a variety of viewpoints, particularly on reddit.  After a draft Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade leaked, our explanation of the legislative options drew a couple of comments […]

About 43 million American borrowers have a direct stake in what President Joe Biden decides to do about student loan debt. Plenty of Democrats are pressing him to grant at least some relief, particularly as a pandemic-driven repayment pause ends after August. “We’ve got millions of people across this country who say they are not […]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is over 90 pages long. But Alito wasted little time getting to his key point. “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” he wrote. The entire draft opinion was leaked to Politico, […]

Ohio has become an early and major test of former President Donald Trump’s ability to pluck a winner out of a crowded field. Of the five Republicans running to replace retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman, four, including “Hillbilly Elegy” author and venture capitalist J. D. Vance, openly courted Trump’s endorsement. A few weeks before the […]