In a recent attempt to get caught up on the important events occurring in the former Soviet Union, I rediscovered the importance not only of learning data but of exploring the ideology behind the data. In an effort to update my students on the vast changes in our country's former adversary, I read as many diverse sources as possible in order to make sense of the events. Out of this came the predictable, yet fascinating, conclusion that political “facts” may be perceived so differently by observers with diverse ideological perspectives that the facts themselves appear to change depending upon who is describing them. I soon realized I was doing both substantive research into the “facts” and an equally important investigation into the biases underlying the reporting of the “facts.”