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Publication: The Intercept

The Intercept has ^44.9% among publications. BS Score: 2%. Articles analyzed: 210. Words analyzed: 1,250,503.

Top reasoning patterns

Negativity Bias - 12.5% (156,127 hits)
Biased Writer Voice - 11% (137,642 hits)
Framing Effect - 9.5% (119,025 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 7.1% (88,280 hits)
Appeal to Emotion - 6.5% (81,279 hits)
Politically Left Leaning Bias - 6.5% (80,814 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 5.3% (66,849 hits)
Appeal to Authority - 3.6% (45,605 hits)

Analyzed articles

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Investigating Terrorism Now, Too ^80.1%

The Intercept - By Jessica Washington - 7/2/2026, 9:50 AM

Negativity Bias 49.1% - Biased Writer Voice 36.5% - Appeal to Emotion 28%

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking a beat from his busy day job ending the scourge of vaccines and modern medicine to take up a right-wing push attempting to link the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the United States to terrorism. The MAHA enthusiast announced last month that HHS was demanding... more

Trump Has Already Launched More Death Penalty Prosecutions Than in His Entire First Term ^25.6%

The Intercept - By Liliana Segura - 7/1/2026, 2:09 PM

Biased Writer Voice 33.4% - Negativity Bias 20% - Appeal to Emotion 12.7%

Less than halfway through Trump’s second term, the U.S. Department of Justice has authorized a rash of new death penalty prosecutions, already surpassing the total number of capital cases brought during Trump’s previous four years in office. Since Trump returned to the White House, DOJ prosecutors have moved to seek the death penalty... more

Socialist Momentum Grows as Melat Kiros Wins in Denver ^70.8%

The Intercept - By Akela Lacy - 7/1/2026, 4:09 AM

Negativity Bias 42.4% - Framing Effect 40.8% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 21.6%

Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent they’d made the face of the Democratic Party’s failures on Tuesday in Denver amid an anti-establishment wave that has powered progressive and socialist midterm victories across the country. Voters chose democratic socialist Melat Kiros, an attorney who lost her job for condemning her industry’s... more

How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades ^45.2%

The Intercept - By Natasha Lennard - 6/30/2026, 11:00 PM

Negativity Bias 25.9% - Framing Effect 24.6% - Biased Writer Voice 16.7%

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. The months after the October 7, 2023, attacks saw a wave of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/">questionable</a> mainstream <a... more

Congressional Dems Shift to Overwhelmingly Oppose Involvement in Israel’s War on Lebanon ^46.5%

The Intercept - By Matt Sledge - 6/30/2026, 8:02 PM

Negativity Bias 19.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 10.3% - Biased Writer Voice 10.2%

Democratic Party leaders in the House reversed course and moved to back a resolution against U.S. involvement in Israel’s war on Lebanon on Tuesday, giving the bill overwhelming support from Democrats for the first time since Congress began seeking to address the conflict. The resolution sponsored by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., failed... more

Even the Liberal Supreme Court Justices Ceded Ground in the Fight for Trans Existence ^82%

The Intercept - By Natasha Lennard - 6/30/2026, 5:32 PM

Biased Writer Voice 87.6% - Negativity Bias 69% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 34.5%

The far-right Supreme Court majority marked the final day of Pride month with an anti-trans decision upholding state bans on trans girls from playing girls’ sports. That the ruling from the right-wing court had been long expected made it no less horrendous. With a 6–3 judgment applying to two cases, one from Idaho and one from West... more

Army Women Are More Likely to Be Killed by Army Men Than by War ^28.8%

The Intercept - By Daniel Johnson, Austin Campbell - 6/30/2026, 9:59 AM

Appeal to Emotion 20.1% - Negativity Bias 19.8% - Appeal to Authority 16.4%

Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in the head. Roque wasn’t in a war zone, and the killer wasn’t an enemy combatant. It was Wooster Rancy, a fellow soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, who had gone to Walmart for trash bags on the last day Roque was... more

Socialists Are Surging. In Colorado, a 29-Year Incumbent Is Sweating. ^74.1%

The Intercept - By Akela Lacy - 6/30/2026, 8:51 AM

Appeal to Emotion 28.2% - Hasty Generalization 21.1% - In-Group Bias 20.7%

Rep. Diana DeGette has had a tough few weeks. The Colorado Democrat is facing her first competitive primary in her 30-year House career on Tuesday. After a series of confrontations with voters — including a public meltdown in a coffee shop — an unfavorable poll kept out of public view, and speculation that she called on powerful allies... more

Abdul El-Sayed Gets JVP Action’s First-Ever Senate Endorsement ^71.8%

The Intercept - By Jonah Valdez - 6/29/2026, 5:00 PM

Framing Effect 33.2% - Appeal to Emotion 26.8% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 20%

The political action arm of a Jewish anti-Zionist group best known for staging sit-ins to protest genocide in the halls of power is endorsing its first-ever candidate for U.S. Senate: Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Jewish Voice for Peace Action is building off of the momentum from a string of victories for the insurgent left in Democratic... more

The Businessman Who Helped Peter Thiel Kill Gawker Wanted to Save Journalism. Then His Site Went Dark. ^36.5%

The Intercept - By Tekendra Parmar - 6/29/2026, 9:35 AM

Biased Writer Voice 33.4% - Negativity Bias 29.5% - Appeal to Emotion 20.4%

Aron D’Souza, the brainchild behind the lawsuit to kill Gawker Media, says he wants to fix journalism. To that end, in the spring he launched a platform that he described as a “private AI tribunal” to adjudicate the veracity of media claims. “Today, anyone can publish allegations. Almost no one can afford to challenge them. Objection... more

Publication: The Intercept

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Investigating Terrorism Now, Too 80.1%

Trump Has Already Launched More Death Penalty Prosecutions Than in His Entire First Term 25.6%

Socialist Momentum Grows as Melat Kiros Wins in Denver 70.8%

How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades 45.2%

Congressional Dems Shift to Overwhelmingly Oppose Involvement in Israel’s War on Lebanon 46.5%

Even the Liberal Supreme Court Justices Ceded Ground in the Fight for Trans Existence 82%

Army Women Are More Likely to Be Killed by Army Men Than by War 28.8%

Socialists Are Surging. In Colorado, a 29-Year Incumbent Is Sweating. 74.1%

Abdul El-Sayed Gets JVP Action’s First-Ever Senate Endorsement 71.8%

The Businessman Who Helped Peter Thiel Kill Gawker Wanted to Save Journalism. Then His Site Went Dark. 36.5%