Fox News pumps up the 'Texas textbook war'

Coverage on the Fox News Channel says Texas officials are planning to eliminate references to Christmas and the Constitution from school textbooks. PolitiFact Texas finds the claim Pants-on-Fire wrong. 

By Ciara O'Rourke :: Published on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 6:12 p.m.

Chain e-mail evolves to Facebook updates

We check out a chain Facebook status update on President Obama and whether he gave a puny raise to the military. PLEASE RE-POST THIS!!!

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert :: Published on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 2:11 p.m.

Parsing abortion in the health care bills

We continue our fact-checking on health care reform and abortion, this time looking at the latest versions of legislation.

By Robert Farley :: Published on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 4:39 p.m.

Democrats' health care bill: Job killer or job creator?

We sort through the numbers and find conflicting evidence when it comes to jobs.

By Catharine Richert :: Published on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 6:49 p.m.

Obama on health care reform: 50 plus one? Git 'er done!

We put Obama on the Flip-O-Meter and find that he rejects broad consensus in favor of passing his proposal.

By Robert Farley :: Published on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 5:04 p.m.

Fact-checker's delight: Bachmann vs. Grayson

Could we resist fact-checking the most quotable firebrands of the right and the left when they appeared together on CNN? No, we could not.

By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 7:06 p.m.

Mailbag: Bipartisan bouquets and brickbats

Readers sound off on our recent fact-checks, and one suggests a bipartisan "revolution."

By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 6:10 p.m.

No need to pay down the debt? Not what he said.

Hillary Clinton takes a few liberties in remembering Alan Greenspan's thoughts on the 2001 Bush tax cuts.

By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 p.m.

Announcing PolitiFact Florida!

We launch our latest state site, this one in a partnership with the Miami Herald.

By Bill Adair :: Published on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 10:06 a.m.

Health care reform: A simple explanation, updated

We summarize the latest versions of the Democratic and Republican health care reform plans.

By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 6:04 p.m.

GOP health care reform: A simple explanation, updated

We revisit our analysis of the Republican health care plan to cover the latest updates.

By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 6:03 p.m.

Fact-checking Obama's bipartisan health care reform meeting

We're watching the president's health care summit with our Truth-O-Meter handy.

By Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Catharine Richert :: Published on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 12:59 p.m.

The nuclear options

Harry Reid says science has settled the question of what to do with nuclear waste. It hasn't.

By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 10:32 a.m.

The stimulus is funding what?

Republican leaders in Congress have put out lists of stimulus projects that they say are wasteful or unrelated to creating jobs. We took a look to see if the projects were as billed.

By Robert Farley :: Published on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 5:26 p.m.

A stimulus report card

One year after the passage of the economic stimulus, we assess how many jobs have been created and how much money has gotten into the economy.

By Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson :: Published on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 8:58 p.m.