Editor's note: PolitiFact Editor Angie Drobnic Holan wrote this column for the media news website Poynter.org. You might expect a website that fact-checks American politics to use the word "lie" a lot ...

Measuring the frequency of words and themes in a document can offer insights, reveal underlying messages, and even illuminate ...

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The distinction between “lay” and “lie” continues to fade. Almost without exception, people say, “I laid on the couch.” They never seem to say, “I lay on the couch.” Plus, people usually throw in the ...

In its bid for objectivity and fairness, writes Alex Green, NPR seems to be ceding too much ground to a serial dispenser of untruths. Pictured: An Oxford English Dictionary, source of NPR's definition ...

If you have ever said or written, "lay down," when you meant "lie down," this column is for you. In other words, if you are a doctor, nurse, physical therapist, yoga instructor, Pilates coach or dog ...

The word “liberal” was once considered a compliment. It meant fair, principled and thoughtful. The Age of Enlightenment was birthed by “classical liberals” with their then-fantastical notions about ...

There's an active debate inside newsrooms, and particularly within the NPR newsroom, about how to characterize the statements of President Trump when they are at odds with evidence to the contrary.

You might expect a website that fact-checks American politics to use the word “lie” a lot. But at PolitiFact, we don’t. We use the word lie once a year, when we consider a year’s worth of ...