Brendan Nyhan

Month: December 2015

  • New NYT: Trump’s misdiagnosis of extremist opinion

    From my new Upshot column: On Monday, Donald Trump singled out American Muslims as supporting repression and violence, citing a discredited poll from an anti-Muslim group as evidence for imposing border restrictions. But if he is worried about extremist public opinion in the United States, he should take a broader look around. Research shows that

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  • New On the Media interview on fact-checking

    My interview with Brooke Gladstone about the prospects for fact-checking in the age of Trump: (I also did a related interview on fact-checking and Trump with New Hampshire Public Radio.)

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