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• A very different type of president opens the Theodore Roosevelt Library

  By Jandoli Institute on July 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Donald Trump wants to be on Mount Rushmore. Teddy Roosevelt already is there in stone.

• Is Niagara Falls more popular than the Great Wall and the Great Pyramids?

  By Jandoli Institute on June 23, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Does Niagara Falls attract more tourists than either the Great Wall of China or the Great Pyramids in Egypt? 

• The new term may be ‘affordability,’ but it’s ‘still the economy, stupid’

  By Jandoli Institute on June 23, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Republican Bruce Blakeman and Democrat Kathy Hochul are focusing on economic issues in their campaigns for governor of New York.

• Students in PolitiFact workshop hold public officials accountable

  By Jandoli Institute on June 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Holding public officials accountable through rigorous fact-checking is vital to our democracy.

• Bob Dylan and the inverted pyramid

  By Jandoli Institute on May 24, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  The Bob Dylan song that folllowed the standard format of a news story.

• If you call my college roommate…

  By Jandoli Institute on March 10, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  On the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, here are some thoughts about today’s phone usage.

• Is a speech still the best way to deliver the State of the Union?

  By Jandoli Institute on February 21, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  State of the Union addresses have become elaborate and sophisticated events. Is all the fanfare needed?

• The treason of the clerics

  By Jandoli Institute on February 15, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  A lifetime academic explains why he is dismayed by today’s higher education leaders.

• Jandoli Institute begins another PolitiFact workshop

  By Jandoli Institute on February 13, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  St. Bonaventure University students are once again working with PolitiFact Chief Correspondent Louis Jacobson and Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee to check facts and write articles for PolitiFact.

• Challenger explosion remains a vivid memory 40 years later

  By Jandoli Institute on January 28, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Jan. 28, 1986, was one of those days a journalist always remembers because it involved reporting a historic event — and in this instance an extremely tragic one.

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