Author: Akela Lacy
Akela Lacy
has 33.7% among authors.
BS Score: 2.4%.
Articles analyzed: 13.
Words analyzed: 45,868.
Analyzed articles
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 7/1/2026, 4:09 AM
Negativity Bias 42.4% - Framing Effect 40.8% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 21.6%
Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent they’d made the face of the Democratic Party’s failures on Tuesday in Denver amid an anti-establishment wave that has powered progressive and socialist midterm victories across the country. Voters chose democratic socialist Melat Kiros, an attorney who lost her job for condemning her industry’s... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 6/30/2026, 8:51 AM
Appeal to Emotion 28.2% - Hasty Generalization 21.1% - In-Group Bias 20.7%
Rep. Diana DeGette has had a tough few weeks. The Colorado Democrat is facing her first competitive primary in her 30-year House career on Tuesday. After a series of confrontations with voters — including a public meltdown in a coffee shop — an unfavorable poll kept out of public view, and speculation that she called on powerful allies... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 6/24/2026, 1:55 AM
Biased Writer Voice 30.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 21% - Hasty Generalization 20.2%
THree key primaries in New York City delivered whopping victories for an emboldened left led by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, as democratic socialists sought to define the future of the Democratic Party. All three candidates Mamdani backed — democratic socialists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, and his onetime mayoral... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 6/23/2026, 10:00 AM
Negativity Bias 29.1% - Appeal to Emotion 20.7% - Framing Effect 12.5%
Eleven months after unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil from his home in Morningside Heights, he met with his congressional representative, Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., for the first time. The February meeting was scheduled as Espaillat, a fifth-term incumbent, was trying to improve his... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 6/18/2026, 1:25 PM
Negativity Bias 25% - Unattributed Quote 15.6% - Biased Writer Voice 14.8%
In the early hours of January 6, 2026, two 911 callers near Ypsilanti, Michigan, reported a white van driving erratically. Within an hour, police had found a white van, crashed into it twice on purpose, and fired 27 shots at the driver while the vehicle lay on its side, burning. At least eight cops watched as 34-year old Navy veteran... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 6/16/2026, 9:46 AM
Negativity Bias 26.1% - Appeal to Emotion 18% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 15.5%
An outspoken progressive running for Congress in the Tennessee district at the center of Republicans’ efforts to sabotage voting rights and maintain control of the House earned the endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday. Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson found himself the unexpected front-runner in the Democratic primary when... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy, Jessica Washington
- 5/20/2026, 12:22 AM
Appeal to Authority 41.4% - Unattributed Quote 28.2% - Halo Effect 23.9%
The Democratic Party’s left flank is hoping to add to its ranks in Congress in Philadelphia on Tuesday in what’s been viewed as a contest between the party’s moderate and progressive wings. Progressives coalesced around state Rep. Chris Rabb in the tight four-way race to replace retiring Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa. Limited polling has shown... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 5/19/2026, 9:57 AM
Negativity Bias 44.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 19.5% - Hasty Generalization 17.7%
When leading California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra was state attorney general, his office pushed the state Supreme Court to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ in order to execute him. Following the lead of his predecessor, former California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Becerra’s office was battling a defense that argued... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 5/12/2026, 7:29 PM
Negativity Bias 40.4% - Biased Writer Voice 23.3% - Confirmation Bias 20.5%
A recently released FBI file shines new light on the days immediately leading up to the arrest of then-Columbia University student and Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil. On March 6 of last year, two days before unidentified officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement abducted and arrested Khalil at his home, the FBI... more
The Intercept
- By Akela Lacy
- 5/1/2026, 9:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 28.2% - Negativity Bias 27% - Framing Effect 20.9%
The Federal Bureau of Investigation multiplied the number of employees assigned to immigration by a factor of 23 in the first nine months of the second Trump administration, The Intercept has found. There were 279 FBI personnel working on “immigration-related matters” before Trump took office in January 2025, according to bureau records... more