Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
-0.43
average ± 0.17·
-0.45 median·
18 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages
-0.37. On this many articles the
difference between the two is inside the margin.
Leaning rates the writing, not the subject.
How it is scored.
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🔮 They consider how the media environment has changed, what Democrats can learn from Republican political infrastructure, how a broad pro-democracy coalition can manage internal disagreements, and what a successful strategy against Trumpism could look like. mixed
🔮 Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country. assertive
🔮 Bill Kristol and Richard North Patterson trace how America went from a seemingly conventional political system to Trump’s second term, where the institutions and powerful people expected to serve as guardrails have often failed to stand up to him. assertive
🔮 Here we were thinking nothing interesting would happen in Congress for the rest of the year—and suddenly there was Rep. Thomas Massie yesterday, introducing articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. assertive
🔮 On the one hand, Trump has promised to sign a sweeping package which—as Andrew wrote yesterday—would hit Russia’s elite with new sanctions and give Trump the ability to hit Russia’s energy customers with tariffs. assertive
🔮 They also discuss Trump’s unfinished ambitions in Greenland, Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, and Kagan’s warning that the breakdown of the postwar order could move much faster than Washington is prepared for. assertive
🔮 A recording from The Bulwark’s live video
Trump’s White House is racking up losses, picking fights with the press, and increasingly operating without anyone willing to tell the president no. assertive
🔮 Darline is a High Quality person, maybe the Highest, and Annie Trannie is not, in particular, as it pertains to representing the Values of the Great People of South Carolina assertive
🔮 About an hour and a half later, Trump had a further thought to share, this time in ALL CAPS:
MY RALLIES ARE SAVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AGAIN!!!
Lots of Republicans would beg to differ with the leader of their party. assertive
🔮 We don’t know: Homeland Security hasn’t claimed he was resisting arrest, attacking an officer, or anything else that might have provoked such a response. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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