Taylor Swift has not endorsed Joe Biden for president As of mid-April 2024, Swift has not issued a public endorsement for the 2024 presidential election, despite social posts claiming otherwise April 17, 2024 Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago press conference with Mike Johnson In a televised press conference after Trump’s and Johnson’s remarks April 12, Trump made several false or misleading comments. April 15, 2024 Louis Jacobson
A fact-checker’s guide to Trump’s first criminal trial: business records, hush money and a gag order Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. April 12, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Donald Trump said all legal scholars, ‘on both sides,’ wanted federal abortion law overturned. That’s wrong. Roe v. Wade inspired legions of supporters and opponents. Before the 2022 ruling, numerous legal scholars urged the Supreme Court to uphold it. April 11, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Opinion | TV networks want Biden and Trump to debate. What’s the point? Debates offer Americans a chance to see candidates answer tough questions, with journalistically sound pushback, about topics crucial to the country April 10, 2024 Tom Jones
Donald Trump is wrong on Democrats’ abortion stance. They don’t support the ‘execution’ of babies Willfully terminating a newborn’s life is illegal in every state and situations resulting in a fetal death in the third trimester are exceedingly rare April 10, 2024 Louis Jacobson
How politicians abuse language to magnify fear and reflect grievances Orwell, Trump, and the zombie apocalypse: An essay about diss, dys, and dat March 27, 2024 Roy Peter Clark
What Trump said about a ‘bloodbath’ and Biden’s actions on the car industry, in context Politicians, pundits and social media users have debated Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ remark in the days following his speech in Ohio. March 19, 2024 Amy Sherman
Opinion | Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and the coverage conundrum News organizations are once again in a precarious situation with a presidential candidate who wields dangerous rhetoric and lies March 18, 2024 Tom Jones
Opinion | With Nikki Haley out, it’s time to prepare for a ‘nasty’ general election ‘It’s going to be personal,’ Chuck Todd warned in his NBC News news politics newsletter — and other media takes on what to expect March 7, 2024 Tom Jones
Biden, Trump and the economy: Who did better on inflation, jobs, gasoline prices and more? No president is all-powerful on economic matters. And there’s no simple answer for who has been the better steward. But here are some numbers. March 5, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Trump calls his fraud case ‘a form of Navalny.’ That distorts the cases. Trump compared his civil fraud fine with the punishment of Russian opposition leader Alexei A. Navalny, who died Feb. 16 in a Russian prison. February 23, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Trump’s claim that Biden directed the New York civil fraud investigation is baseless Letitia James said in 2018 that she would investigate then-President Donald Trump. In March 2019, she began. Biden was elected later. February 22, 2024 Louis Jacobson
A poll found 1 in 5 believe in a covert Taylor Swift effort to help Biden win. What does that mean? The majority of respondents who believe the Swift-Biden theory are Republicans and plan to vote for Trump. February 21, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Opinion | A week later, still parsing through Donald Trump’s NATO-Russia comments It was such a flabbergasting comment that here we are, a week later, and it is still a major topic of discussion. February 19, 2024 Tom Jones
