The mental effort required to sustain a lie can be overwhelming. Lying typically causes cognitive dissonance — the unease felt when your actions don’t align with your beliefs or self ...

How and why do politicians lie? And how can we, the public, keep the facts in check–even in the face of increased mis- and disinformation online? The Institute for Rebooting Social welcomes Bill Adair ...

Lying and denial go hand in hand. Every time a lie is told, a denial must be concocted to protect the lie by denying that it is a lie. What Donald Trump realized decades ago when he was pursuing ...

PolitiFact Founder and Duke University professor Bill Adair talked about the impetus for his book, "Beyond the Big Lie." PolitiFact Founder and Duke University professor Bill Adair talked about ...

Once that lie is uncovered, the whole gig is up. So now we have another lie: the “enemy within” lie. This is a 33-second clip of an interview Trump did with Maria Bartiromo. It started ...

Author and PoliticFact founder Bill Adair joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our ...

14 at 11 am ET. Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the biggest lie the Biden-Harris administration told: that Mr. Hunter Biden’s laptop was not real. Three weeks before the 2020 election ...

do not change the fact the medical fact that an abortion is about life in the womb. The question is, to end the new life or not to end the new life? That is not a lie. Dette Reh ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear came out swinging against the former president and his current running mate when he said on ABC’s “This Week” that “there is no lie too big for Donald Trump and ...

The accusation that Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio city are abducting and eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs relies ...

But Vance's novel spin on the Big Lie isn't just a sad attempt to look ... Vance didn't spell out the implications of this dramatic shift in the definition of "American," but it's not hard to ...

In “Beyond the Big Lie,” Bill Adair worries that the world of spin and fabrication in America has gotten out of hand. By Reeves Wiedeman Reeves Wiedeman is a features writer at New York ...