Author: Michael Birnbaum
Michael Birnbaum
has 75% among authors.
BS Score: 5.3%.
Articles analyzed: 11.
Words analyzed: 4,548.
Analyzed articles
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum
- 6/21/2026, 9:00 AM
Framing Effect 100% - Negativity Bias 100% - Biased Writer Voice 100%
President Donald Trump’s effort to strike a deal with Iran faced significant headwinds on Sunday, as Tehran flexed its control of the Strait of Hormuz, Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes and the right flank of Trump’s party continued to accuse him of making too many concessions to secure an agreement. more
The Washington Post
- By Maegan Vazquez, Michael Birnbaum
- 6/20/2026, 3:09 PM
Framing Effect 100% - Negativity Bias 100% - Biased Writer Voice 100%
Iran’s military command said Saturday it is closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to state media, testing a fragile ceasefire agreement intended to lead to a broader peace with the United States. more
The Washington Post
- By Tara Copp, Michael Birnbaum
- 6/19/2026, 7:56 PM
Negativity Bias 73.8% - Halo Effect 73.8% - Anecdotal 73.8%
President Donald Trump on Friday visited the Qatari 747 jumbo jet that has been converted so it can serve as Air Force One, speaking in front of a newly painted plane that he said would deliver “a level of luxury that nobody’s ever seen before.” more
The Washington Post
- By Dan Diamond, Natalie Allison, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Michael Birnbaum
- 6/17/2026, 8:32 PM
Framing Effect 100% - Negativity Bias 100% - Biased Writer Voice 100%
ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — President Donald Trump issued a freewheeling defense of his Iran ceasefire deal at the close of the G-7 summit, veering from warnings about the economic costs of war to<b> </b>criticism of Israel’s campaign in Lebanon and comments<b> </b>suggesting a break with decades of U.S. opposition to Iran’s ballistic... more
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum, Karen DeYoung
- 6/15/2026, 9:08 PM
Optimism Bias 81.3% - Recency Bias 81.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 81.3%
President Donald Trump said Monday that the Strait of Hormuz will fully reopen to shipping traffic by Friday, the day that senior U.S. and Iranian officials plan to meet in Geneva for a ceremony to mark an end to the four-month war and kick off weeks of negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program. more
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum
- 6/15/2026, 4:16 AM
Hindsight Bias 41.3% - Negativity Bias 41.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 41.3%
President Donald Trump declared an end to his campaign against Iran’s leaders with an exhortation on Sunday: “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” With the Iranian regime still in place, he was celebrating a resumption of the way the world was on Feb. 27, the day before the United States and Israel attacked Iran. more
The Washington Post
- By Victoria Craw, Michael Birnbaum, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Meg Kelly
- 6/10/2026, 11:55 AM
Availability Heuristic 27.3% - Representativeness Heuristic 27.3% - Framing Effect 27.3%
The U.S. launched strikes on “multiple targets in Iran” late Wednesday afternoon Eastern time, U.S. Central Command said in a statement, without providing further details. Explosions could be heard in several southern Iranian cities, according to semiofficial Iranian news outlets. more
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum, Gerry Shih
- 6/8/2026, 11:12 PM
Biased Writer Voice 90.3% - Confirmation Bias 50.5% - Anecdotal 50.5%
When previous U.S. presidents sought to tie the hands of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader often exploited rifts in U.S. politics to find a friendlier ear in Washington and wriggle free from constraints placed on him. As Trump clamps down on Netanyahu, the Israeli leader is finding he has few avenues of appeal among... more
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum, Isaac Arnsdorf
- 5/16/2026, 10:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 80.2% - Optimism Bias 39.6% - Primacy Effect 39.6%
BEIJING — President Donald Trump was riding the early high of his return to power last year when he took his first major foreign trip and declared that he would make a sharp break from years of U.S. nation-building around the world. A year ago, Trump promised a new era during the first major foreign trip of his second term. On his recent... more
The Washington Post
- By Michael Birnbaum, Isaac Arnsdorf
- 5/13/2026, 9:00 AM
Negativity Bias 9.4% - Optimism Bias 7.9% - Primacy Effect 6.2%
BEIJING — President Donald Trump came into office 16 months ago promising to take a hard line against Chinese trade policies that he said were stealing jobs and opportunities from Americans. But as he arrived Wednesday in Beijing on his first visit in nearly a decade, he wasn’t coming seeking a fight. Trump’s summit with Chinese... more