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Publication: Slate

Slate has ^44.6% among publications. BS Score: 1.9%. Articles analyzed: 33. Words analyzed: 161,274.

Top reasoning patterns

Biased Writer Voice - 19.1% (30,779 hits)
Negativity Bias - 10% (16,114 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 7.6% (12,242 hits)
Framing Effect - 6% (9,612 hits)
Politically Left Leaning Bias - 5.6% (9,055 hits)
Appeal to Emotion - 5.1% (8,263 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 4.3% (6,868 hits)
Availability Heuristic - 3% (4,762 hits)

Analyzed articles

Who Could Replace Graham Platner? ^41.5%

Slate - By Jim Newell - 7/7/2026, 8:20 PM

Biased Writer Voice 37% - Negativity Bias 17% - Confirmation Bias 12.9%

Democrats’ brief experiment in letting their hair down and nominating a Senate candidate who makes them feel edgy has all but concluded. After a Politico story in which an ex claimed that Graham Platner sexually assaulted her, the party has seen enough. Democrats ranging from Chuck Schumer to Zohran Mamdani have called on Platner to drop... more

Brett Kavanaugh’s Anti-Trans Ruling Takes a New and Disturbing Turn ^63.1%

Slate Magazine - By Craig Konnoth - 7/7/2026, 7:35 PM

Negativity Bias 47.4% - Biased Writer Voice 38% - Confirmation Bias 21.2%

As Pride Month celebrations drew to a close on the last day of June, the Supreme Court delivered another blow to the LGBTQ+ movement. Earlier in its term, the court had backed anti-gay conversion therapy, undermined protections for transgender children in schools, and sided with the Trump administration’s refusal to let trans people use... more

What Congress could actually do about the Supreme Court. ^71.9%

Slate Magazine - By Alexis Romero - 7/6/2026, 6:46 PM

Negativity Bias 40.7% - Biased Writer Voice 39.4% - Indoctrination 29.4%

The Supreme Court had a field day this term mangling Congress’ laws. For a court that repeatedly claims to be deferential to the will of the legislature, it took nearly every opportunity to narrow, rewrite, or make ineffective a wide range of federal statutes. Slate has been covering this phenomenon all year, from the dangerous decision... more

How Shohei Ohtani helped me grieve my wife’s death. ^13.9%

Slate Magazine - By Max Perry Mueller - 7/6/2026, 4:11 PM

Appeal to Emotion 17.9% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 14.4% - Halo Effect 9.1%

The early months of the 2026 Major League Baseball season marked the beginning of what might become the greatest season ever played by the greatest baseball player—and my favorite player—who has ever lived. For years, I have watched Shohei Ohtani with the kind of devotion only baseball invites: daily, statistically, ritually, and... more

So It’s Gonna Be Forever, Huh? ^63.7%

Slate Magazine - By Heather Schwedel - 7/5/2026, 12:22 PM

Biased Writer Voice 86.3% - Negativity Bias 30% - Availability Heuristic 26.1%

So It’s Gonna Be Forever, Huh? I’m a frivolous person who writes about celebrities for a living, but even I can’t quite believe what I’ve seen of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. Congratulations are in order for Taylor Swift. Not for getting married—though that too, I suppose—but for pulling off something with a much higher... more

Why Do Some Women Buy Into Right-Wing Ideology? ^51.5%

Slate Magazine - By Laura Miller - 7/5/2026, 9:45 AM

Biased Writer Voice 47.3% - Negativity Bias 27.7% - Anecdotal 25.5%

Sharon, one of the 85 women interviewed by academic Katie Gaddini for her insightful new book Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, lives in Portland, Oregon, “a famously liberal administration in a notoriously blue state.” Because Sharon is Black, everyone at the state government office where she works assumes... more

This Is What America Is Like at 250. But What Will We Be Like at 500? ^33.3%

Slate Magazine - By Luke Winkie - 7/4/2026, 9:40 AM

Hasty Generalization 33.1% - Biased Writer Voice 20.1% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 9.1%

This Is What America Is Like at 250. But What Will We Be Like at 500? I made some guesses. 2026 turns out to be an awkward time to reflect upon the 250<sup>th</sup> birthday of the United States. Our great nation’s international esteem has flatlined under the incredible weight of the second Trump administration. Normal Americans have to... more

America: Is 250 years old or young for a country? ^30.4%

Slate Magazine - By Rebecca Onion - 7/4/2026, 9:35 AM

Ambiguity (Equivocation) 24.2% - Appeal to Authority 23.3% - Anecdotal 19.7%

This Saturday, the United States turns 250, and despite everything, we’re all going to try our best to have fun at the birthday party. But the occasion raises the question: Is 250 really all that “old” for a country anyway? After all, we’re on a planet where the city of Rome has been continually inhabited for 2,700 years, and the... more

Dutton Ranch Is the True Successor to Yellowstone. But There’s One Key Difference. ^36.3%

Slate Magazine - By Rebecca Onion - 7/3/2026, 2:00 PM

Biased Writer Voice 61% - Negativity Bias 31.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 14.8%

This piece contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Dutton Ranch. One of those odd overlaps between television and real life unfolded in late May, when an episode of the Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch had Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) discovering that a new bull he’d purchased for his South Texas ranch had infected his herd with... more

America Was Never a Democracy ^61%

Slate Magazine - By Lizzie O’Leary - 7/3/2026, 1:00 PM

Confirmation Bias 25.4% - Hasty Generalization 24.8% - Negativity Bias 21.7%

This Independence Day, we will tell ourselves a lot of stories about what it means to be American. One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the genocide of Indigenous people that kicked the whole thing off. According to Rebecca Nagle, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, a writer and... more

Publication: Slate

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

Who Could Replace Graham Platner? 41.5%

Brett Kavanaugh’s Anti-Trans Ruling Takes a New and Disturbing Turn 63.1%

What Congress could actually do about the Supreme Court. 71.9%

How Shohei Ohtani helped me grieve my wife’s death. 13.9%

So It’s Gonna Be Forever, Huh? 63.7%

Why Do Some Women Buy Into Right-Wing Ideology? 51.5%

This Is What America Is Like at 250. But What Will We Be Like at 500? 33.3%

America: Is 250 years old or young for a country? 30.4%

Dutton Ranch Is the True Successor to Yellowstone. But There’s One Key Difference. 36.3%

America Was Never a Democracy 61%