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The Dispatch→ Biden’s ‘Internet for All’ Initiative, Explained
Is the White House’s $42 billion plan to ensure internet access for every family realistic?
The Dispatch→ SCOTUS Gives POTUS a Policy Pass
The justices say Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the Biden administration’s immigration policy.
The Dispatch→ Biden Withholds Weapons That Could Help Ukraine Win the War
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the German federal Chancellery on May 14, 2023, in Berlin. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)Cluster munitions are controversial, but the potential benefits outweigh the risks.Continue reading Biden Withholds W
The Dispatch→ Tucker Carlson Out at Fox News
Tucker Carlson speaks during the 2022 Fox Nation Patriot Awards. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images)Plus: Mortgage fee changes burn better borrowers.Continue reading Tucker Carlson Out at Fox News »
The Dispatch→ Beijing’s American Hostages
Stock art from Getty ImagesWhat will happen to those detained as U.S.-China relations deteriorate further? Continue reading Beijing’s American Hostages »
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: What Has the Biden Administration Said About Uganda’s Anti-LGBT Law?
Joe Biden. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images.) A digitally altered image attributed to President Joe Biden’s verified personal Twitter account is circulating online. The fake tweet, proliferated across social media platforms in the context
The Dispatch→ America’s Child Labor Problem
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the U.S. Capitol, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)No one knows how big the problem has become, complicating eradication efforts: A Dispatch Explainer.The post America’s Child Labor Problem appeare
The Dispatch→ The United States’ Terrestrial Weekend
The National Security Council’s John Kirby speaks at a White House press briefing following the U.S. downing of a number of unidentified aerial phenomena. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Why has the military suddenly begun shootin
The Dispatch→ Balloons, Biden, and American Power
The Chinese spy balloon flies above in Charlotte NC, United States on February 4, 2023. (Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.)What the spy balloon incident tells us about America as a superpower.The post Balloons, Biden, and American Power a
The Dispatch→ Saudi Nuclear Ambitions Could Upend the Middle East
Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud. (Photo by Askin Kiyagan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)And there are steps the U.S. can take to ward them off.The post Saudi Nuclear Ambitions Could Upend the Middle East appeared first on The Dis
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Twitter Files’ Hearing Further Exposes How It ‘Bent and Broke’ Rules for the Trump Administration
A House Oversight Committee ostensibly geared toward showing “suppression” of information regarding the laptop of Hunter Biden — the son of United States President Joe Biden and a frequent target of far-right conspiracist fantasies
The Dispatch→ What We Talk About When We Talk About Balloons
A Chinese spy balloon flies above Charlotte, North Carolina on February 4, 2023.(Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.)Sputnik, but dumber.The post What We Talk About When We Talk About Balloons appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Warnings That We Shouldn’t ‘Provoke’ Putin Miss the Point
Soldiers of the Ukrainian 55th artillery brigade operate a U.S. made Howitzer M777 cannon amid artillery fights on December 29, 2022 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images.)It’s in our national interest to give Ukraine what it needs
The Dispatch→ Will South Korea Go Nuclear?
President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. (Photo by Kim Min-Hee - Pool/Getty Images)As Pyongyang grows its nuclear arsenal, Seoul considers its atomic options.The post Will South Korea Go Nuclear? appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine
People look at a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made Shahed-136, in central Kyiv. (Photo by Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images.)Biden’s chronic risk avers
The Dispatch→ Biden’s 2024 Tightrope Starts With Border Balancing Act
President Joe Biden speaks with Customs and Border Protection at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.)There are no easy answers, and even simple measures are politically untenable.The post
The Dispatch→ The Alternative to Winning in Ukraine Is Endless War
A woman cries as she prepares to evacuate from Kherson. Weeks after liberation, Kherson and surrounding villages are bombarded daily by Russian troops. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images.)Advocates for a hasty peace are wrong to think Russia w
The Dispatch→ How to Really Turn the Screws on North Korea
Unprecedented missile tests deserve a more serious diplomatic and economic response.The post How to Really Turn the Screws on North Korea appeared first on The Dispatch.
Snopes→ Did the White House Change the Definition of ‘Recession’?
"Apparently the White House is changing the definition of recession this week so we can pretend that we’re not in one," said one prominent Biden critic.
Snopes→ White House Seeks More Power to Counter Use of Drones in US
The Biden administration is calling on Congress to expand authority for federal and local governments to take action to counter the nefarious use in the U.S. of drones.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘George Washington Mandated Inoculation’
On September 13 2021, a Facebook account shared a screenshot of the following tweet, which claimed that George Washington mandated inoculation: George Washington mandated inoculation against small pox. The Supreme Court has ruled state vaccine manda
Truth or Fiction?→ Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Echoes ‘Doctor’s Plot’ Rhetoric
An ongoing medical disinformation campaign took a sharp turn in July 2021, when right-wing commentators and politicians pivoted to direct attacks against continued efforts by the Biden administration to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. T
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Joe Biden ‘Thinking About Extending’ Public Education to 16 Years?
A pop culture blog grabbed attention in June 2021 with a tweet miscasting part of United States President Joe Biden’s American Family Plan. The post, by an account called @MyMixtapez. said that Biden believes that “12 years of public school
Truth or Fiction?→ Did 20 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses ‘Go Missing’?
Online speculation around former presidential advisor Jared Kushner swirled on social media after stories appeared about ongoing problems facing United States President Joe Biden’s administration as it continued fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, n
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Jen Psaki Have a Brother Working for Citadel LLC?
As discourse and debate surrounding online trading in general and the app Robinhood in particular continued to spread in January 2021, some right-wing social media users attempted to link it to new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, claiming that
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Lloyd Austin Considering ‘Defunding’ or ‘Maybe Disbanding’ the U.S. Army?
The efforts to push disinformation about United States President Joe Biden’s administration began within days of his January 2021 inauguration, with a graphic falsely claiming that the U.S. military faced possible “defunding.” The me
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Joe Biden’s Rolex Really Beau Biden’s Rolex?
A January 22 2021 New York Times piece headlined, “Joe Biden, Watch Geek in Chief” observed that newly inaugurated United States President Joe Biden wore a Rolex during his inauguration, leading to at least two viral tweets asserting th
Poynter→ U.S. fact-checkers expect new debates over policy as Joe Biden prepares to take office
U.S. fact-checkers are planning for a smooth transition from their work fact-checking the outgoing Trump administration to new claims about coronavirus relief, immigration and economic policy coming out of the soon-to-be inaugurated Biden administratio
Truth or Fiction?→ Was a ‘Biden Election Official’ Arrested for Voter Fraud in Texas?
Shortly after the arrest of a Texas woman accused of election tampering, right-wing social media users began trying to spin the case into an attack on U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden’s decisive win over outgoing president Donald Trump. Embattled
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘George Soros With the Owner of Smartmatic’
As conspiracy theorists continued trying to convince themselves that Donald Trump did not definitively lose the November 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, they also found another way to recycle — yet again — a reliable boogeyman in
Truth or Fiction?→ Neera Tanden Didn’t Tweet ‘Hitler Was Certainly Controversial But No One Gives Him Proper Credit for Fighting to the Death Against Communism’
On December 1 2020, a fabricated tweet attributed to Neera Tanden began circulating, which read, “Hitler was certainly controversial but nobody gives him proper credit for fighting to the death against Communism”: .@neeratanden, WHAT pic