Fairness means listening to different perspectives and opinions. It does not always require giving equal weight or time to those different sides. So how does this work in practice? When people have ...

CNN anchor Pamela Brown shut down Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) election comparison Thursday, saying the contrast he made between the 2016 and 2020 contests was a “false equivalence.” Brown ...

It’s time to break up with false equivalence. Those who followed politics in 2017 will remember the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in which neo-Nazis, neo-confederates and white ...

“Reality,” Stephen Colbert once said, “has a well-known liberal bias.” He was joking–or “joking”–but he identified a serious problem for political reporters in a polarized era. What do you do when the ...

Sal jaywalks. Tom slips a candy bar in his pocket at a 7-11 and leaves without paying. Jim robs a bank. Chris kills someone in cold blood. Sal, Tom, Jim and Chris are all criminals. They all broke the ...

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Markus Fish’s column (“As I See It: Tragedy doesn’t equal tyranny,” Daily News of Newburyport, Jan. 12, 2026) is a neat little piece of false equivalence.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...