The Aporia · Nick Catoggio

Articles

24

2026-08-26 – 2026-10-14

Claims per article

2

51 extracted in total

Hedged claims

2%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

332

characters

Writes for The Dispatch.

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.

Politics

83%

Other

8%

Entertainment

4%

Sports

4%

Most-tagged topics

AmericanAmericansBoiling FrogsUkraineAsianCIAChandigarhClaremont

-0.32 average ± 0.11 · -0.35 median · 15 scored articles

Sits to the left of their own outlet, which averages -0.09 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-09-11 · The Dispatch · Politics

Unserious Men

26 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-09-30 · The Dispatch · Politics

Up Schmitt Creek

16 outlets covered this event · leans right

2026-10-01 · The Dispatch · Politics

Impeaching Pete

15 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-10-14 · The Dispatch · Politics

Something Like Sabotage

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-10-13 · The Dispatch · Politics

Fake But Accurate

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-10-12 · The Dispatch · Politics

Sneak Preview

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-08-26 · The Dispatch

He Went to Jared

🔮 For instance, next month the president will roll out the red carpet for a nuclear-armed Asian communist dictator whose political enemies routinely end up in gulags. assertive

2026-08-28 · The Dispatch

World War 2.5

🔮 The last time it happened before this week was November 2021, when William Burns felt obliged to warn the Kremlin in person that we knew what it was planning for Ukraine. assertive

2026-09-14 · The Dispatch

To Hell With Assimilation

🔮 How racist can a party’s voters be if they’re willing to nominate a guy named “Vivek Ramaswamy” to be governor of Ohio? assertive

2026-09-24 · The Dispatch

The Red’s Carpet

🔮 We might call that “Hegseth’s paradox” in honor of our defense secretary, who’s forever complaining about the low-T softness of those who serve under him when he’s not tongue-bathing the Florsheims of the man under whom he serves. mixed

2026-09-30 · The Dispatch

Up Schmitt Creek

🔮 It’s hard to do justice to his exchange yesterday with former special counsel Jack Smith, the man who would have prosecuted Donald Trump for multiple crimes if Americans hadn’t handed control of federal law enforcement over to the suspect. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Dispatch

Credibility Gap

🔮 If I told you that Americans are less likely to trust mass media now than they were in 2020, would it surprise you? assertive

2026-10-08 · The Dispatch

Greece-ing Palms

🔮 No rule of thumb is foolproof but this one will seldom fail you: If you run across someone on social media with an image of Greek antiquity as his avatar, his politics trend fascist. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Dispatch

Something Like Sabotage

🔮 One way to understand the home stretch of the midterm campaign is as an experiment to see how much s--t Reaganite conservatives are willing to eat in the name of partisanship. assertive

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