Five Myths

Challenging everything you think you know.

Five myths about political conventions
Five myths about political conventions
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Five myths about Obama’s stimulus
(The Washington Post, August 10, 2012; 5:14 PM)
 
Five myths about the middle class
(The Washington Post, August 3, 2012; 5:10 PM)
 
Five myths about mass shootings
(The Washington Post, July 27, 2012; 1:50 PM)
 
Five myths about campaign ads
(The Washington Post, July 19, 2012; 4:18 PM)
 
Five myths about free enterprise
(The Washington Post, July 13, 2012; 2:06 PM)
 
Five myths about Pepco
(The Washington Post, July 6, 2012; 2:17 PM)
 
Five myths about the veepstakes
(The Washington Post, June 29, 2012; 10:24 AM)
 
Five myths about the Dream generation
(The Washington Post, June 22, 2012; 4:27 PM)
 
Five myths about Marco Rubio
(The Washington Post, June 15, 2012; 12:40 PM)
 
Five myths about swing states
(The Washington Post, June 8, 2012; 3:21 PM)
 
Five myths about breast-feeding
(The Washington Post, May 31, 2012; 5:12 PM)
 
Five myths about marriage
(The Washington Post, May 25, 2012; 4:08 PM)
 
Five myths about independent voters
(The Washington Post, May 17, 2012; 6:46 PM)
 
Five myths about gay marriage
(The Washington Post, May 11, 2012; 5:12 PM)
 
Five myths about America’s decline
(The Washington Post, May 3, 2012; 7:09 PM)
 
Five myths about conservative voters
(The Washington Post, April 27, 2012; 5:04 PM)
 
Five myths about female voters
(The Washington Post, April 20, 2012; 2:47 PM)
 
Five myths about super PACs
(The Washington Post, April 13, 2012; 12:10 PM)
 
Five myths about water
(The Washington Post, April 6, 2012; 3:48 PM)
 
Five myths about Obama’s foreign policy
(The Washington Post, March 30, 2012; 10:28 AM)
 
Five myths about the health-care law
(The Washington Post, March 23, 2012; 3:17 PM)
 
Five myths about Syria
(The Washington Post, March 15, 2012; 3:48 PM)
 
Five myths about March Madness
(The Washington Post, March 9, 2012; 11:15 AM)
 
Five myths about Vladimir Putin
(The Washington Post, March 2, 2012; 3:03 PM)
 
Five myths about Medicare
(The Washington Post, February 24, 2012; 11:38 AM)
 
Five myths about Mardi Gras
(The Washington Post, February 18, 2012; 6:50 PM)
 
Five myths about the presidency
(The Washington Post, February 16, 2012; 3:51 PM)
 
Five myths about cheating
(The Washington Post, February 13, 2012; 4:10 PM)
 
Five myths about white people
(The Washington Post, February 10, 2012; 10:44 AM)
 
Five myths about Charles Dickens
(The Washington Post, February 2, 2012; 7:34 PM)
 
Five myths about China’s power
(The Washington Post, January 26, 2012; 2:52 PM)
 
Five myths about Barack Obama
(The Washington Post, January 20, 2012; 10:09 AM)
 
Five myths about the Keystone XL pipeline
(The Washington Post, January 18, 2012; 1:35 PM)
 
Five myths about the Arab Spring
(The Washington Post, January 12, 2012; 6:21 PM)
 
Five myths about the American dream
(The Washington Post, January 6, 2012; 10:44 AM)
 
Five myths about the Iowa caucuses
(The Washington Post, December 29, 2011; 5:18 PM)
 
Five myths about Margaret Thatcher
(The Washington Post, December 22, 2011; 4:30 PM)
 
Five myths about Christmas
(The Washington Post, December 16, 2011; 12:18 PM)
 
Five myths about Ron Paul
(The Washington Post, December 9, 2011; 1:18 PM)
 
Five myths about Newt Gingrich
(The Washington Post, November 22, 2011; 4:56 PM)
 
Five myths about student loans
(The Washington Post, November 18, 2011; 2:54 PM)
 
Five myths about J. Edgar Hoover
(The Washington Post, November 9, 2011; 1:58 PM)
 
Five myths about the world’s population
(The Washington Post, November 4, 2011; 1:33 PM)
 
Five myths about the G-20
(The Washington Post, October 28, 2011; 12:20 PM)
 
Five myths about Dodd-Frank
(The Washington Post, October 21, 2011; 8:09 PM)
 
Five myths about healthy eating
(The Washington Post, October 14, 2011; 4:55 PM)
 
Five myths about voter fraud
(The Washington Post, October 7, 2011; 4:13 PM)
 
Five myths about social media
(The Washington Post, September 30, 2011; 5:37 PM)
 
Five myths about millionaires
(The Washington Post, September 23, 2011; 1:03 PM)