At This Year’s World Cup, Make Way for Autocrats ^66.4%

The Nation - By Aaron Timms - 6/17/2026, 9:30 AM

Biased Writer Voice 93.8% - Negativity Bias 52.7% - Hasty Generalization 25%

The noise makes the first impression: a misting chorus rising off the stands. Transmitted through the TV screen, the lyrics—precise and witty on the ground—are flattened into a series of up-tempo chants about nothing: ohhhhh-ahhhh-ehhhhh, wahh-ehhh, wahh-ahhh-ehh-ehhhh, heh-ho, heh-ho, heh-ho. Quick raps of applause swarm from bay to... more

Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption ^41.7%

The Guardian - By Judith Levine - 5/27/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 49.3% - Biased Writer Voice 26.3% - Appeal to Emotion 17.9%

As his mentor Roy Cohn counseled, Donald Trump never admits wrongdoing or apologizes. But he occasionally evinces something resembling a qualm. In October, considering renewing claims against the government for $230m in compensation for federal investigations against him, he reflected on his own appointees deciding on the payout and him... more

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds ^73.8%

NPR - By Frank Langfitt - 3/20/2026, 4:01 AM

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country's democracy... more

Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow ^90%

NPR - By Frank Langfitt - 2/16/2026, 6:34 AM

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy. Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of Sweden's V-Dem Institute, which monitors democracy across the globe, says the U.S. has already crossed... more