👤 Will Saletan

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-09-03 – 2026-10-07
Claims per article
30
268 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,417
characters
Writes for The Bulwark.
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
RepublicansBulwarkGOPRepublicanAmericaCongressFox NewsVenezuela

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
7 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.37 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-04 · The Bulwark · Politics
Even Fox News Won’t Hide the Truth About Trump’s Grotesque Oil Deal
34 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-03 · The Bulwark · Politics
Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business
34 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-29 · The Bulwark · Politics
Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
19 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-30 · The Bulwark · Politics
Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
16 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-03 · The Bulwark · Politics
Trump Just Posted GOP Sen. Tom Cotton’s Private Phone Number
14 outlets covered this event
2026-10-07 · The Bulwark · Politics
Susan Collins Couldn't Answer One Simple Question About Trump
8 outlets covered this event · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-03 · The Bulwark
Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business
🔮 ON WEDNESDAY, FIVE DAYS AFTER Donald Trump announced a deal that would give the United States a stake in Venezuelan oil fields containing an estimated 65 billion barrels of oil, Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Caracas for a meeting with Delcy Rodríguez, the country’s acting president. assertive
2026-09-04 · The Bulwark
Even Fox News Won’t Hide the Truth About Trump’s Grotesque Oil Deal
🔮 Will Saletan takes on Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, as the president openly brags that Venezuelan oil has already paid for the war “many times over” and Republicans argue that U.S. Will Saletan takes on Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, as the president openly brags that Venezuelan oil has already paid for the war “many times over” and Republicans argue that U.S. oil companies deserve benefits for the next 100 years. assertive
2026-09-15 · The Bulwark
Republicans’ “Anti-Communist” Obsession Backfires Spectacularly
🔮 Will Saletan runs their own definition of “communism” against Donald Trump’s promises of $5,000 checks, government stakes in private companies, admiration for China, and even his jokes about being “the greatest communist in history”—and finds the GOP’s argument collapsing under its own weight. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Bulwark
Trump Said It Out Loud. His Cabinet Says It Never Happened.
🔮 Will Saletan meticulously breaks down Todd Blanche’s defense of Trump’s press crackdown, Mike Waltz getting confronted with the president’s own words, and the shifting story about the war with Iran. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Bulwark
Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
🔮 In the first ad, he declares, “Together we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism in America.” assertive
2026-09-30 · The Bulwark
Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
🔮 The committee’s senators, listening to Smith’s remarks, could have chosen to identify with the honest Republicans he cited as models. assertive
2026-10-03 · The Bulwark
Trump Just Posted GOP Sen. Tom Cotton’s Private Phone Number
🔮 Will Saletan and Joe Perticone take on the strange fight, the golf-industry interests behind it, and why Trump is picking on one of his own loyal allies with Republicans already staring down a brutal midterm environment. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Bulwark
Jack Smith Reveals the Words That Could Have Buried Trump
🔮 Jack Smith Reveals the Words That Could Have Buried Trump Will Saletan lays out the case against Donald Trump that Jack Smith never got to present at trial. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Bulwark
Susan Collins Couldn't Answer One Simple Question About Trump
🔮 Susan Collins Couldn't Answer One Simple Question About Trump assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
💬Give feedback
🕘History 🎫Support