Author: Damon Root
Damon Root
has 20.1% among authors.
BS Score: 1.9%.
Articles analyzed: 5.
Words analyzed: 15,600.
Analyzed articles
Reason.com
- By Damon Root
- 6/30/2026, 5:20 PM
Appeal to Authority 21.9% - Biased Writer Voice 20.4% - Confirmation Bias 18.3%
When the 14th Amendment was introduced in the U.S. Senate in 1866, the first senator to speak out in opposition to it was a Pennsylvania Republican named Edgar Cowan. He objected in part because the Citizenship Clause of the proposed amendment would make American citizens out of the U.S.-born children of unwelcome immigrants. "Is it... more
Reason.com
- By Damon Root
- 6/30/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 25.6% - Negativity Bias 17.2% - Pessimism Bias 14%
In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously stopped President Franklin Roosevelt from firing a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for purely political reasons. The FTC "cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive," the Court declared in <em>Humphrey's Executor v. United States</em>. On... more
Reason.com
- By Damon Root
- 6/29/2026, 4:50 PM
Negativity Bias 27.6% - Biased Writer Voice 22.4% - Framing Effect 19.9%
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a far-reaching decision on the constitutionality of a law enforcement tool that allows police to access the location histories of millions of cell phone users. In a welcome result for civil libertarians, the Court ruled on Monday that "geofence warrants" count as a "search" under the Constitution and... more
Reason.com
- By Damon Root
- 6/27/2026, 10:00 AM
Negativity Bias 21.5% - False Dilemma 14% - Hasty Generalization 13.2%
In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. In 1790, the British statesman Edmund Burke published the work that made his name. Part diatribe and part manifesto, Reflections on the Revolution in France denounced that world-shaking upheaval not only for its "crude and... more
Reason.com
- By Damon Root
- 6/25/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 41.3% - Negativity Bias 27.3% - Unattributed Quote 14.5%
Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. The month of June is rapidly coming to a closing, and the U.S. Supreme Court has officially begun its mad dash to the finish line, aiming to release all opinions in argued cases by either the end of the month or—judicial vacation plans permitting—by sometime... more