When Points Weren't Personal, Liberties Were Taken With the Truth
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In a debate laden with detailed assertions and rebuttals, Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards often stretched the facts.
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America's growing reliance on drugs may have blurred the line between what is cheating and what isn't.
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Questions have been raised about whether the meat industry has been given too much leeway to police itself.
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History can help us keep faith in the public square in perspective.
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Sometimes, a thing looks too bad to be true.
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Technological changes and  personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions of  privacy emerged more than a century ago.
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Despite what you may have heard about the occasionally dodgy veracity of damnable statistics, on this occasion the numbers donât fib.
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But not necessarily for the reason you think.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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The precious balance between individual freedoms and national security has never been defined in absolutes. In times of war, when our security is threatened, people are asked to make concessions with their freedoms.
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President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry made few major factual errors in their first debate, although on occasion they stretched the truth or left out inconvenient facts -- or may have confused viewers as they spoke in policy shorthand.
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Critics question whether the standards process is as independent as it's cracked up to be.
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Don't take the headlines too seriously, because they're long on facts, short on truth, and they just don't matter.
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His own fascination with Talking Points and Hardball weakened the defense's argument that he had bigger things to worry about than telling lies
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A media sting operation gone awry revives a debate on media regulation
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Even the most virtuous decisions have unforeseen, often damaging, consequences, and full disclosure may create as many problems as it solves.
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The congressional Republicans, in changing rules to protect Tom DeLay, were criticized as hypocritical. Such criticism was not founded on all the facts and ignores the reason for the change.