Author: Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby
has 18.2% among authors.
BS Score: 1.8%.
Articles analyzed: 2.
Words analyzed: 12,440.
Analyzed articles
Washington Monthly
- By Tamar Jacoby
- 2/20/2026, 10:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 33.6% - Appeal to Emotion 19.2% - Halo Effect 15.9%
Looking back, it should have been obvious—the warning wasn’t subtle. When I texted my friend, the frontline commander I called Fin—I always used his army call sign, not his civilian name—the screen stared back at me ominously: “Last seen January 3, 2026”—at least three weeks earlier. I told myself it was nothing. He’d probably changed... more
Washington Monthly
- By Tamar Jacoby
- 1/29/2026, 10:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 22.3% - Hasty Generalization 20.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 17.4%
“Wait ‘til it gets cold—really cold, Ukrainian cold,” a friend warned when I arrived in Kyiv in 2022. I didn’t know what he meant until this year—recent winters here, like almost everywhere, have been relatively mild. But 2026 is a throwback: it’s been snowing off and on for weeks, and temperatures, at their lowest in years, are hovering... more