The author, founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website PolitiFact, draws on nearly 20 years of journalistic experience to reveal the patterns of political lies, why Republicans do more of it, and the frightening consequences for our democracy. This book goes behind the scenes of campaigns, to show the cynical calculations of officials who have accepted lying as a routine weapon in daily political battles. Showing that political...

"A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault...