Publication: Salon.com
Salon.com
has 53.5% among publications.
BS Score: 2.3%.
Articles analyzed: 28.
Words analyzed: 155,765.
Analyzed articles
Salon.com
- By Melanie McFarland
- 7/3/2026, 5:30 PM
Hasty Generalization 19.9% - Ad Hominem 11.1% - Biased Writer Voice 11.1%
Imagine that you’re relaxing at a casual family gathering. Conversation is flowing, the food is hitting just right and everybody is enjoying each other’s company. Suddenly, your good time is interrupted by an elder pulling you aside and pushing you toward a paunchy, bespectacled sack lurking in a corner. “Your poor uncle is by himself at... more
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- By Andi Zeisler
- 7/3/2026, 4:00 PM
Negativity Bias 39.1% - Hasty Generalization 24.5% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 21.3%
Joey remembers falling asleep to the sounds of league bowling when she was a little kid in Eastern Michigan. “Both my parents bowled, and my older brother was supposed to keep an eye on me, but he would tell friends to meet him there to play pinball,” she recalls. That left her free to nest in a pile of family coats under a row of seats.... more
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- By Amanda Marcotte
- 7/3/2026, 10:45 AM
Biased Writer Voice 73.4% - Negativity Bias 38.7% - Ad Hominem 20.1%
Donald Trump’s well-documented ability to destroy everything he touches has come for what should have been the easiest of tasks: making the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence fun. If there is one thing the world’s oldest democracy is good at, it’s throwing Independence Day parties, hosting outdoor... more
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- By Russell Payne
- 7/3/2026, 10:30 AM
Negativity Bias 43.3% - Appeal to Emotion 22% - Hasty Generalization 17.4%
In late June in Texas, nine activists were found guilty of a myriad of criminal charges brought against them after an immigration protest grew chaotic — but critics say the charges and sentencing were unusually excessive and represent overreach from the Trump administration. A 2025 Fourth of July noise protest outside an immigration... more
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- By Sophia Tesfaye
- 7/2/2026, 5:30 PM
Negativity Bias 36.6% - Biased Writer Voice 35.2% - False Dilemma 17.8%
Here we go again with the extraordinary, taxpayer-funded disappearing acts of Republican politicians. A headline in the Louisville Courier-Journal crystalized the state of affairs on Capitol Hill: “As Tom Kean returns, Mitch McConnell‘s absence now DC’s biggest mystery.” Reporter Lucas Aulbach noted that the 84-year-old former Senate... more
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- By Francesca Giangiulio
- 7/2/2026, 2:55 PM
Indoctrination 21.5% - Anecdotal 19.5% - Optimism Bias 18.9%
About three years ago, Frankie Celenza says he ran out of ideas. The Emmy Award-winning chef had just completed nine back-to-back seasons of his popular Tastemade show “Struggle Meals” — a concept that was born out of his time as a student at NYU, hoping to teach other students how to eat and cook well while living on a budget — and says... more
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- By Sophia Tesfaye
- 7/1/2026, 5:30 PM
Biased Writer Voice 55.4% - Negativity Bias 52.3% - Ad Hominem 31.4%
Signed on his first day back in office, Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to unilaterally dissolve the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of automatic citizenship to virtually every child born on American soil perfectly exemplifies the core obsessions of his era’s politics. It was flatly unconstitutional. Yet even before the... more
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- By Melanie McFarland
- 7/1/2026, 1:00 PM
Confirmation Bias 16% - Hasty Generalization 15.3% - Halo Effect 9.3%
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” – George Washington, 1788 “We’re Americans, with a capital A! You know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the... more
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- By Amanda Marcotte
- 7/1/2026, 10:45 AM
Negativity Bias 58.3% - Biased Writer Voice 33.8% - Hasty Generalization 30.8%
The decades-long Republican quest to force Christianity on those they see as unwashed heathens reached a new low on June 26, when the GOP-controlled Texas State School Board put Bible stories on mandatory reading lists for every level of public school student. The decision is disturbing on many levels, starting with the outright... more
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- By Kirk Swearingen
- 7/1/2026, 10:30 AM
Politically Left Leaning Bias 49.1% - Negativity Bias 43.7% - Appeal to Emotion 31.8%
The six Federalist Society-vetted members of the Supreme Court claim to be close readers of the Constitution, “originalists,” who parse the intentions of the founders and, somehow, even the attitude of the public, whenever a law was created. The latter approach is their fairly new “history and traditions” gambit. Chief Justice John... more