The logical fallacy of false equivalence occurs when one compares two items or ideas and concludes they are equal when, in fact, they only share partial (or vague) similarities and as a whole are ...

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 ...

In a recent local commentary, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown claimed that two viewpoints on immigration can both be valid. Krishna Flores is a resident of Los Alamos.

One of my colleagues here at The Rachel Maddow Show reminded me this afternoon of comments President Obama made to Associated Press last week about the false-equivalence fallacy. Obama said, "I think ...

What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...

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 ...