👤 Samantha Michaels

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-10 – 2026-10-05
Claims per article
120
239 extracted in total
Hedged claims
15%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
14,669
characters
Writes for Mother Jones.
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

Crime & Law
50%
Politics
50%
Most-tagged topics
ICEAmericaEl PasoMemphisORRTennesseeTexasthe Halo Law

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 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.
2026-10-05 · Mother Jones · Politics
“You Kidnapped My Son”
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-10 · Mother Jones · Crime & Law
Memphis Has Spent a Year Under Federal Occupation. ICE Would Rather You Didn’t Notice.
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-10 · Mother Jones
Memphis Has Spent a Year Under Federal Occupation. ICE Would Rather You Didn’t Notice.
🔮 You might not have heard about this just because there’s a lot going on (gestures everywhere). assertive
2026-10-05 · Mother Jones
“You Kidnapped My Son”
🔮 For several days this spring, trapped inside a Texas immigration detention center, Luis made frantic phone calls, one after the other, to everyone he could think of. 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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