Paradox Project Blog

PolitiFact’s Own Truth Rating? Biased

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...

Don’t Attack Carrier. Attack Tesla.

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...

Please, Nominate This Man

Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons By J.D. ECARMA and MATT SHAPIRO Back in what seems like a much more innocent time (2004), National Review published a tongue-in-cheek cover story on Howard Dean asking...