Mailbag: ‘Everybody gets one chance to be royally wrong’
As we enjoy the July Fourth festivities, we give readers a chance to sound off about our fact-checks.
As we enjoy the July Fourth festivities, we give readers a chance to sound off about our fact-checks.
As President Barack Obama unveils a series of planned executive actions on climate change, we recap some of our many fact-checks on the issue.
As President Barack Obama unveils a series of planned executive actions on climate change, we recap some of our many fact-checks on the issue.
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on two major same-sex marriage cases, we recap what's at stake and some of the possible outcomes.
President Obama told Charlie Rose that the court is "transparent." The facts tell a different story.
A freshman lawmaker said he’s ready to accept President Barack Obama’s "apology" for spending 30 times as much on climate-change research as on weather forecasting and warning. Are his numbers right?
PolitiFact Texas has checked a claim by an advocacy group that the IRS didn't primarily target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. But the claim didn't hold up.
The political world has been focused on scandalmania in Washington. Our readers have, too.
Republican lawmakers accuse President Barack Obama of trying to "pack" the court -- a phrase that invokes the 1937 proposal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court by as many as five justices.
Is there substance to the charge? We turned to American history in search of answers.
We looked at two claims -- one by a Republican lawmaker, one by a Democratic lawmaker -- that go to the heart of whether the IRS is too fearsome, or not doing enough
We looked at two claims -- one by a Republican lawmaker, one by a Democratic lawmaker -- that go to the heart of whether the IRS is too fearsome, or not doing enough.
Bachmann's statements get a Mostly False, a False and a Pants on Fire!