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Pulitzer Prize Winner’s Revealing Lie

2025-05-26T15:51:38-05:00Educating for Democracy, Viewpoint|

In 2012, Bill Adair, founder of Politifact, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalism fact-checking website, lied on a C-SPAN call-in show about whether Republicans lied more than Democrats.

How the Red-Blue Narrative Kept Us from the Real Story of Rising Extremism in a Fracturing GOP

2025-06-13T10:10:22-05:00Viewpoint, Voting Rights|

The takeover of the Republican Party by anti-democracy extremists and the intra-party friction it generated, on full display in the House of Representatives’ battles over the House speakership this year, has been the big [...]

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Pulitzer Prize Winner’s Revealing Lie

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