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Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a look back at yellow journalism and the Spanish-American War By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2022 Is the Buffalo Bills' Highmark stadium built on an early Erie Indian village? By Cassidey Kavathas • April 21, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What’s Ukraine’s history of trying to join NATO? By Bill McCarthy • April 14, 2022 How misinformers manufacture and embellish embarrassing presidential moments By Bill McCarthy • April 12, 2022 Putin’s one-sided history of Ukraine’s relationship with Russia By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2022 A far-left group bombed the Capitol in 1983. Here’s how that’s different from the Jan. 6 attack By Madison Czopek • February 22, 2022 When George Washington fought misinformation By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 21, 2022 False flags: They’re real, but far less widespread than social media suggest By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2022 Why Holocaust comparisons by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. are grossly inaccurate By Bill McCarthy • January 27, 2022 How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry By Bill McCarthy • September 9, 2021 Vietnam and Afghanistan: Different wars, similar endings? By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2021 Explaining the many sides of Chief Black Hawk’s story By Madison Black • June 28, 2021 Juneteenth’s 156-year path to becoming a federal holiday: Here’s the history By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2021 Georgia’s election law sparks ‘Jim Crow’ rhetoric, as well as pushback By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2021 The Trial of the Chicago 7: What the movie gets right, and wrong By Samantha Putterman • April 18, 2021 Fact-checking 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' the film about the killing of a Black Panther leader By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2021 Why is Archie not a prince? Fact-checking prince protocol after Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview By Bill McCarthy • March 9, 2021 Can Congress impeach and remove a president who’s left office? A look at the history By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2021 Joe Biden’s inauguration in extraordinary times, fact-checked By Jon Greenberg • January 20, 2021 A history of breaches and violence at the US Capitol By Amy Sherman • January 7, 2021
