Barack Obama urges audience to ‘do a fact-check.’ We oblige
In a speech to the Democratic National Committee, President Barack Obama asked for more fact-checking. Here you go.
In a speech to the Democratic National Committee, President Barack Obama asked for more fact-checking. Here you go.
Another installment of reader feedback about our fact-checks.
In the wake of comments by Rand Paul and Chris Christie about whether to vaccinate children, attention has turned to footage from 2008 showing then-candidate Barack Obama seeming to raise similar concerns. But is he? We took a closer look.
PolitiFact Texas: Obama's call for a veterans hospital in the Rio Grande Valley
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, recalled wearing bread bags to keep her shoes dry when growing up in rural Iowa. This prompted a flood of memories by PolitiFact readers. Here are recollections from those who did much the same -- and some who didn't.
We combed through every line in Obama's 2015 State of the Union. Learn the facts behind the speech.
Joni Ernst's 2015 State of the Union rebuttal: annotated
PolitiFact's live blog for the 2015 State of the Union and GOP response
Learn the facts behind Sen. Joni Ernst's 2015 GOP response to the State of the Union.
PolitiFact's coverage of the 2015 State of the Union and GOP response.
Perhaps you saw the chain email about multiple tax hikes taking effect this month. It's wrong in many ways.
The past year produced claims about how good -- or bad -- the economy is these days. Some claims checked out, but others didn't.
From wild claims about the Obamas to Fox News to Ferguson, we found lots to fact-check from the Internet in 2014. Here are 18 doozies.
In recent weeks, PolitiFact readers wrote us to take issue with our coverage of the Senate torture report and the intersection of race and crime. Here's a selection of their emails.
We published lots of Falses and Pants on Fires this year, but here's a hat-tip to a sampling of claims that earned a full True rating.