Publication: Reason.com
Reason.com
has 29.1% among publications.
BS Score: 1.7%.
Articles analyzed: 32.
Words analyzed: 126,644.
Analyzed articles
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- By Matt Welch
- 7/3/2026, 11:45 AM
Biased Writer Voice 56.7% - Appeal to Emotion 36.1% - Hasty Generalization 32.5%
In 1757, a full generation before the American Revolution, British soldiers in Albany, New York—the main military staging area for the French and Indian War—demanded that the local sheriff open up his jail to detain a town farmer accused of harassing nearby troops. The sheriff, a physically unimpressive shoemaker in his early 30s named... more
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- By J.D. Tuccille
- 7/3/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 31% - Negativity Bias 22.4% - Appeal to Emotion 22.4%
Nearly half of Americans don't understand what we're celebrating for America's 250th anniversary, according to a new poll. Clearly, the festivities aren't about the quality of the country's public schools, since this year marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Something else we should be celebrating,... more
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- By Jacob Sullum
- 7/2/2026, 9:10 PM
Negativity Bias 22.5% - Biased Writer Voice 21.3% - Confirmation Bias 19.8%
Former Houston narcotics officer Gerald Goines is serving a 60-year sentence for his role in a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, whom he falsely accused of selling heroin. But the officer who actually killed Tuttle and Nicholas was Felipe Gallegos, whose justification for the shots he... more
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- By Nick Gillespie
- 7/2/2026, 8:28 PM
Negativity Bias 46.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 32.2% - Hasty Generalization 27.3%
As America gears up to celebrate its 250th birthday, you've probably encountered headlines like this Newsweek one: US Gen Z, Young Millennials Less Patriotic Than Older Generations: Poll. It's true that polls consistently show that younger Americans are more likely to be ambivalent about the United States than their parents or... more
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- By Autumn Billings
- 7/1/2026, 6:33 PM
Negativity Bias 37.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 33.2% - Biased Writer Voice 30.6%
It's been nearly a year since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While the legislation was advertised as a sweeping tax bill, it also allocated roughly $191 billion to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up immigration enforcement. Included in this total was $75 billion for Immigration and... more
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- By J.D. Tuccille
- 7/1/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 42.3% - Negativity Bias 33.1% - Appeal to Emotion 20.4%
The Trump administration took office last year promising to reverse the speech-unfriendly policies of the Biden administration, which had pressured social media companies to censor inconvenient stories and ideas. The new White House, we were promised, would "ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or... more
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- By Jacob Sullum
- 7/1/2026, 4:01 AM
Negativity Bias 42.8% - Biased Writer Voice 22.6% - Unattributed Quote 16.2%
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that "an agreement not to appeal a sentence is unenforceable when it would result in a miscarriage of justice." This week, the Court held that a government-ordered analysis of cellphone location data qualifies as a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. In both cases, Justice Neil Gorsuch agreed with... more
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- By Meagan O'Rourke
- 6/30/2026, 6:17 PM
Biased Writer Voice 34.4% - Appeal to Authority 31.1% - Negativity Bias 23.1%
Democrats are gearing up for the 2028 election and preparing a list of policy priorities—dubbed "Project 2029"—should they retake the White House. The first Project 2029 proposal is not about affordability, healthcare, or foreign policy. No, the Democrats' first proposal concerns children's online safety: the issue fueling lawmakers'... more
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- 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
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- By Germania Rodríguez Poleo
- 6/30/2026, 12:00 PM
Confirmation Bias 33.3% - Hasty Generalization 15% - Biased Writer Voice 9.4%
In 2005, when I was 11, my mother and I fled Venezuela because the government was going to arrest her for her reporting. She was among the first investigative journalists to document how President Hugo Chávez and the socialist party were taking control of the judiciary and integrating Cuban operatives into the military and security... more