Lies, Truth, Humility and the Public’s Trust Perhaps one day it will be unacceptable for reporters to avoid facts inconvenient to their political causes, but I doubt it will arrive soon. Share ...

The need for trust. Lying is wrong because if such a practice were universalized – if we lived in a world where we did not expect truth telling – it would be nearly impossible for most social ...

The sky is not falling. The Earth is not flat. Fiction is not at all the same as facts no matter how loud you scream. It is time to rally against the popular wholesale rejection of truth.

WASHINGTON — This is the season of lies. We watch with fascination as candidates for the world’s most powerful job trade falsehoods and allegations of dishonesty. Republican presidential ...

If you haven't yet done so, please read "Illusory Truth, Lies, & Political Propaganda: Part 1" first. "Propaganda is the art of making up the other man's mind for him." —Raymond Dodge (1920) ...

These same voters, I have no doubt, would have cheered Gingrich for doing just that in 1998 when he led the charge to impeach President Clinton for his dalliance with a younger woman who worked in ...

David DeCosse is the director of Religious and Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethics Programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Facebook has said that it will not take down ads ...

This year we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of a man who, more than any other, trained the modern world in the art of fiction. In 2016 we also seem destined to pass another mileston… ...

Indeed, belief in the truth may be partisan. A Pew Trust report shows that by 2023, the gap in media trust "had widened dramatically, with just 11% of Republicans trusting the media, compared with ...