“For me, this was opposition research,” Donald Trump Jr. told Sean Hannity on Tuesday night on Fox News. “Someone sent me an email — I can’t help what someone sends me. I read ...

Opposition research exists mostly in the political shadows. So perhaps it's fitting that this boot camp is in an generic conference room in a generic airport hotel outside of Washington ...

I know better than most what opposition research is, and it’s most certainly not this. That’s because for the past three years, I've run the largest opposition research effort focused on Trump ...

Joseph Rodota is the host of Oppo File, a podcast about the history and practice of opposition research. He is on X at @oppofile and @josephrodota. The candidates in the second GOP presidential ...

WASHINGTON — Psst. Wanna hear something bad about your opponent? As any political strategist can attest, opposition research is a lifeblood of campaigning, with documents, recordings and tips ...

And it was just as clear that everyone suddenly noticed the lack of opposition research. As someone who has spent decades working in research, I was of two minds about the situation. Part of me ...

Reporting from Washington — Joe Biden was not the only one who found himself in crisis when a videotape emerged during the 1988 presidential primary exposing him as a plagiarist. The political ...

We're talking about opposition research, or "oppo" — basically, digging up dirt on your political opponents. Bryan Anderson wrote about oppo in North Carolina politics this week for the online ...

Where was the opposition research on this guy? On episode 61 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene chat with TNR staff writer Daniel Strauss about the first two months ...

"This is a golden age" of opposition research, said Jeff Berkowitz, who dug dirt on Democratic candidates for the Republican National committee from 2002 to 2010. The sort of search tools that ...