How workers – not companies – are bearing the growing burden of government
By Sage Ross (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University Tax day is here…
Read MoreNews
Pulitzer Prize Winners and their Bias Ratings
We thought it might be interesting to look at the Pulitzer Prize winners and their bias ratings. If a source won more than one Pulitizer,…
Does Donald Trump Own Stock in the Company that Manufactured Tomahawk Missiles for Syrian Bombing?
We were asked by a reader, citing the Palmer Report, to fact check whether Donald Trump owns stock in the company that produces the Tomahawk…
Strikes against Syria: Did Trump need permission from Congress?
President Donald Trump after speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service Launching 59 cruise…
A Few Website Updates
I wanted to give some brief updates about what is happening here at MBFC as there is a lot going on behind the scenes that…
With Syria missile strikes, Trump turns from non-intervention to waging war
Military strikes against a Syrian airforce base mark Donald Trump’s first big foreign policy test as president. Ben Rich, Curtin University The United States’ unilateral…
Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we fall for it today
German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories…
In shake up, Rick Perry moves into Trump’s national security inner circle
By Gage Skidmore (Flickr: Rick Perry) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune April 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — A new…
(Fact Check) Is Trump Removing LGBTQ from the Census?
We were asked by a reader if President Donald Trump is removing LGBTQ questions from the upcoming census. On March 28th, several media outlets reported that…
The White House Wouldn’t Post Trump Staffers’ Financial Disclosures. So We Did.
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz ProPublica, April 1, 2017, 11:38 a.m. In a remarkable Friday night news dump, the Trump administration made dozens of…