Portraying violence, even jokingly, against groups of people or particular individuals is a slippery slope. The most recent example of our decent into incivility is a 28-second-long video posted ...

Americans are deeply divided over Trump’s plans and how he is handling his job as president in the early weeks of his return ...

President Donald Trump speaks from Emancipation Hall as House Speaker Mike Johnson, from left, his wife Kelly Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and his wife Jennifer Scalise ...

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting ... By the same token he says “WHO never really criticized China” when in fact we have called on China repeatedly to share information ...

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Inaugural addresses, with their emphasis on lofty rhetoric, are generally not fertile ground for fact-checking ... rhetoric that is expressed more as an opinion — “for many years, a radical ...

Here’s what Times Opinion columnists and contributors thought ... There’s little better to commend America than the fact that here, a poor kid from Appalachia whose family history has been ...

Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., was "always crying." Here are our fact-checks of Trump’s claims during his inaugural speech followed by claims during his subsequent remarks at Emancipation Hall.

The stakes are quite different. Far beyond freedom of opinion, it is once again the facts that are under attack, as well as the methods used to place them at the heart of public debate.

I want to avoid mythology; Los Angeles has too many myths already and they are not useful in coping with the cold hard facts of catastrophe. But just as each of us has a story, a point of view ...

More Getty So: Has Trump 2.0 learned from Trump 1.0? And will this 47th presidential administration be an improvement over the (already quite good!) 45th presidential administration? Has Trump ...

Facebook parent Meta announced last week it would no longer work with nearly 100 independent fact-checking organizations to review its content and instead allow Facebook users to point out and ...