White House spokesman Jay Carney brought up birtherism while answering questions Tuesday, mocking reporters for repeatedly asking questions on a numbe...

Texas lawmakers debated a bill Monday that, if passed, would require presidential hopefuls to prove they are natural born U.S. citizens, Austin's KTBC...

Barack Obama's mother was born in Kansas... Ted Cruz's mother was born in Delaware. Barack Obama's father was born in Kenya... Ted Cruz's father was born in Cuba. See a pattern?

A Republican lawmaker questioned President Obama's birthplace on Tuesday, joining the ranks of conservative "birthers" who have raised doubts about th...

Nothing succeeds like persistence - unless you're Orly Taitz....

Donald Trump has been called in to campaign for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, making robo-calls for use in key swing states as well as ...

Now he says he supports funding FEMA. (Are we surprised? We are not surprised.) ...

Obama made a birth certificate joke while attacking Mitt Romney at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday. The president made the remark while critic...

Paul Ryan has figured out a way of letting the birthers down gently....

Joe Arpaio calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” but the Arizonan might instead be the biggest fraud in law enforcement, San Diego County ...

The great thing about birtherism is that it is forever on the verge of reaching its apotheosis, leaving spectators to its surreality-based derangement...

President Barack Obama's weekend trip through Florida had many photogenic moments, most notably when he got picked up by the owner of a pizza place. O...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's that birther thing again. President Barack Obama was at an Orlando sports bar, snapping a University of Florida Gators' sign, ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Viewers tuning into the Republican National Convention have heard Ann Romney speak lovingly of her husband and New Jersey Gov. Chris Ch...

Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday downplayed presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney's recent joke about President Barack Obama'...

Mitt Romney made a joke about his birth certificate at a rally in Commerce, Mich. on Friday. Speaking about his Michigan roots, he said, "No one's ...

A former Navy SEAL leading an anti-Obama group is the latest to question the president's birthplace, noting he thinks Obama "is not who he says he is....

Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of the Age of Insanity. Here's a wealthy educated man. Influential. A New York icon. And yet, he believes that Barack Obama is some kind of Manchurian Candidate president. Let's examine the logic.

Arizona State Sen. Lori Klein (R) held a fundraiser Friday night in Prescott, Ariz., featuring Ohio GOP congressional candidate Samuel Wurzelbacher, m...

More than a year after President Barack Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate, real estate mogul Donald Trump is still not convince...

You know, we make fun of Rep. Steve King for the way he opposes restricting dogfighting on the grounds that boxing exists, and isn't that the same thing? (No.) But you've got to hand it to King -- the man is an innovator. Scott Keyes (who I guess is on the Steve King beat these days, not that I'm complaining) has now caught King indulging in a little bit of Birther Calvinball. He's pretty sure that Obama's papers are legit, but you never know, because reasons. The whole point to Birtherism, though, is that you don't need to conclusively make this case to sell it. It's just that the buyers are all blithering loons.

While there are ways to present information more effectively, the extensive social science research we review in our New America report suggests that misperceptions are very difficult to counter.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Juneau man has filed a lawsuit trying to compel the state of Alaska to prove that President Obama is qualified to be on the ...

PHOENIX — Investigators for an Arizona sheriff's volunteer posse have declared that President Barack Obama's birth certificate is definitely fra...