I watched it all from a distance, which I increasingly prefer these days. I saw the Christianity Today editorial with Mark Galli’s condemnation of Trump and call to remove him, Trump’s petulant response, Timothy...
By MATT SHAPIRO There are a lot of opinions flying around about the case of actor Jussie Smollett and the hate crime hoax he is credibly accused of creating. It’s a strange story, and...
By MATT SHAPIRO When Amazon announced the result of their search for cities to host their HQ2 expansion, I’ll confess the result was a bit of a surprise to me. I live in Seattle,...
By MATT SHAPIRO Conservatives often feel that the “mainstream media” doesn’t give their “side” a fair shake. This outsider view has inspired a cottage industry on the right that points to examples of this...
By MATT SHAPIRO This last week, I had a small conversation with Jason Emory Parker about climate change. I would say Emory is on “the left” and I’m on “the right” on this issue, but we...
By MATT SHAPIRO Last week, I flew from Seattle to Washington, D.C., to teach a workshop on data visualization. I have done this a few times, back in 2015 in what now seems like...
According to PolitiFact analysis, one of these things is not like the others By MATT SHAPIRO In this series culling PolitiFact data, we’ve looked at the aggregate truth ratings they give members of different...
By MATT SHAPIRO In the first piece in our series on PolitiFact bias, we looked at how PolitiFact generally rates Republicans as less honest than Democrats and how their word count betrays the...
By MATT SHAPIRO When it comes to fact-checking, no organization is better known than PolitiFact. The online fact-checking project operated by the Tampa Bay Times is synonymous with the concept of the fact-check as...
Credit: Joseph Thornton via flickr By MATT SHAPIRO When President-elect Donald Trump announced the “Carrier deal” in Indiana, the reactions across the pundit-sphere were predictable. Everyone who hates Trump hated this deal and everyone...