👤 Alec MacGillis

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-24 – 2026-11-06
Claims per article
138
277 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
20,375
characters
Writes for ProPublica.
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.

What they cover

Politics
100%
Most-tagged topics
ChillicotheCongressMuseumNational Museum of American HistoryOhioOhio UniversityRepublicanSmithsonian

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Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-06 · ProPublica · Politics
On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-24 · ProPublica · Politics
How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-24 · ProPublica
How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
🔮 One exhibit speculated that Ben Franklin may have shocked enslaved people in electric experiments. assertive
2026-11-06 · ProPublica
On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle
🔮 Ramaswamy, a biotech billionaire, nodded and offered some token reassurance and moved down the line, toward the arena where he would soon be appearing with President Donald Trump and Sen. Jon Husted and the rest of the Republican slate in a state that Trump had won by 11 percentage points two years ago, and which the party had dominated during the era of Trump. assertive
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