Publication: Jacobin
Jacobin
has 26% among publications.
BS Score: 1.6%.
Articles analyzed: 13.
Words analyzed: 79,294.
Analyzed articles
Jacobin
- By Logan McMillen
- 7/3/2026, 2:52 PM
Hasty Generalization 22.8% - Confirmation Bias 16.5% - Negativity Bias 15.3%
An often forgotten historical truth about the American Revolution is the crucial role that Spain played in providing financing, logistical support, and supplies. As Greg Grandin details in America, América, in late 1776, Benjamin Franklin entered secret talks with the Bourbon Court to plead support for the revolutionaries’ cause. Spain... more
Jacobin
- By Ed Simon
- 7/3/2026, 8:50 AM
Anecdotal 42.3% - Appeal to Authority 19.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 17.5%
A popular anecdote maintains that, upon their defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British fife-and-drum regiment was instructed by General George Washington to perform the Royalist anthem “The World Turned Upside Down.” As appealing as the story is, it’s almost certainly apocryphal. Traditionally, the losing army would have... more
Jacobin
- By Maxwell G. Burkey
- 7/3/2026, 8:42 AM
Framing Effect 15% - Hasty Generalization 11.7% - Negativity Bias 4.7%
This 250th year of American independence has seen no shortage of paeans to Thomas Paine, the high priest of the American Revolution. Organs of liberal-left politics from the Atlantic to the New York Times to the Nation have implored a return to Paine and his 1776 tract, Common Sense, in our moment of democratic peril. Meanwhile, a widely... more
Jacobin
- By Bhaskar Sunkara
- 7/2/2026, 12:07 PM
Confirmation Bias 15.8% - False Dilemma 15.5% - Appeal to Authority 14.5%
Jonathan Chait has an essay in the Atlantic warning that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has become the very thing it was founded to oppose. There is nothing wrong with a liberal writer in a liberal publication taking aim at the socialist left. If anything, it is a good sign. The socialist movement in the United States is... more
Jacobin
- By Jill Lepore
- 7/2/2026, 9:17 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 53.7% - Negativity Bias 45.2% - Hasty Generalization 33%
The US Constitution is “not a living document,” Justice Antonin Scalia once said. “It’s dead, dead, dead.” In her Pulitzer Prize–winning book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, Harvard historian Jill Lepore shows that the document’s demise came slowly. Before originalists like Scalia put the final nail in the coffin,... more
Jacobin
- By Corey Robin
- 7/2/2026, 8:46 AM
Hasty Generalization 19.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 16.9% - Negativity Bias 16%
In a probing Substack, John Judis writes, “In ten or fifteen years, it is very possible that the Democratic Party will be known as ‘democratic socialist’ in the same way it is now known widely as ‘liberal.’” Before you dismiss this as ideological patter from a political adventurer, you should know that Judis is a relentlessly... more
Jacobin
- By Marie Gottschalk
- 7/1/2026, 11:30 AM
Negativity Bias 47% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 41.4% - Biased Writer Voice 37.2%
The United States is an exceptionally militarized, lethal, and violent country. The growing concentration of economic, political, and military power is draining America of vital resources to sustain healthy and peaceful communities. It is pushing more people to the margins, where a police officer, a prison cell, a tent, a military... more
Jacobin
- By Doug Henwood
- 7/1/2026, 9:32 AM
Biased Writer Voice 62.3% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 46.5% - Genetic Fallacy 31.9%
One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics. Although we often feel (correctly) that democracy is eroding in the United States, we shouldn’t forget that, despite our image, our... more
Jacobin
- By Sofia Guimarães Cutler
- 7/1/2026, 1:51 AM
Politically Left Leaning Bias 48.8% - Negativity Bias 32.8% - Biased Writer Voice 29.6%
Labor unions have historically played an essential role in the fight for democracy and workers’ rights. Yet they have largely retreated during Donald Trump’s second presidency in the face of his administration’s vicious attacks on organized labor. In 2025, the number of strikes in the United States declined by 36 percent from their... more
Jacobin
- By Vivek Chibber, Suzy Lee, Melissa Naschek
- 6/30/2026, 12:57 PM
Framing Effect 7.2% - Straw Man 1.5% - Begging the Question 0.9%
Donald Trump has made the issue of immigration a key battleground in American politics. But with public opinion swinging against the brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and deportations over the past year, how should the Left respond? On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek... more