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 ...

The false equivalence displayed by William Baxley (“Divide and conquer,” Feb. 11) is a clear danger to democracy. The Democratic led House of Representatives has passed almost 400 bills aimed at ...

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 ...

The closer we get to the November election, the more I hear from people demanding what I interpret as a false equivalency in our stories and opinion pieces. No. No. No. No. No. The only standard that ...

Two recent writers encouraged a “no” vote on Proposition 50 arguing that the election commission won’t be restored in 2030 because so-called “temporary” legislative bills often become permanent. What ...

Will the mainstream media ever wise up to the fact that both sides in our political debate don’t play by the same rules? By a rough estimate, this is my 500th column; what a long, strange trip it’s ...

This week, 17 student groups released a statement portrayed as seeking “unity and solidarity” in the aftermath of the senseless violence in Charlottesville. Yet the groups curiously seek such unity by ...

Yesterday, a jury in Washington, DC awarded renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann more than $1,000,000 in damages in a defamation lawsuit he brought against two bloggers.1 I was a witness in the ...