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Topic: North America

North America has ^61.7% among topics. BS Score: 4.3%. Articles analyzed: 26. Words analyzed: 12,828.

Top reasoning patterns

Framing Effect - 25.5% (3,273 hits)
Biased Writer Voice - 20.7% (2,652 hits)
Negativity Bias - 17.9% (2,293 hits)
Indoctrination - 10.6% (1,356 hits)
Post Hoc (False Cause) - 10.3% (1,323 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 9.4% (1,208 hits)
Appeal to Authority - 9.1% (1,172 hits)
Overconfidence Bias - 7.5% (963 hits)

Analyzed articles

America’s 250th celebrations marked by severe weather, political division ^28.8%

The Washington Post - By Layli Nazarova, Olivia George, Hannah Natanson, Liam Scott, Juan Benn Jr., Natalie Allison, John Woodrow Cox - 7/4/2026, 3:56 PM

Negativity Bias 44.2% - Biased Writer Voice 44.2% - Hindsight Bias 26.9%

Dawn had just cracked on America’s 250th birthday when a couple from Texas jogged past a sign outside the U.S. Capitol that read “POLICE LINE — DO NOT CROSS.” It was the start of a day that did not go according to plan. more

Voters are angry with Washington, and other takeaways from the Colorado primaries ^96%

The Washington Post - By Erin Cox - 7/1/2026, 9:04 AM

Framing Effect 100% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 100% - Unattributed Quote 100%

Democrats in Colorado rode a backlash against Washington to victory Tuesday night, as a surge of primary voters picked candidates without ties to Congress. Colorado’s Democratic primary had been closely watched to see whether the wave of democratic socialist victories in New York last week would travel west — out of coastal, urban... more

Protest changes policy when communities stay organized ^58.9%

Brookings - By Rashawn Ray - 6/29/2026, 1:09 PM

Post Hoc (False Cause) 36.7% - Overconfidence Bias 27.9% - Appeal to Authority 23.6%

The American promise of free speech and collective action is not merely a constitutional abstraction. It is the mechanism through which every major expansion of civil rights and democratic participation has been achieved. From the labor movement to the suffrage campaigns to the civil rights revolution, organized community power has... more

Why resisting Trump has galvanized Black Democrats as the midterms approach ^97.4%

The Washington Post - By Gregory S. Schneider - 6/29/2026, 9:00 AM

Framing Effect 98.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 98.3% - Biased Writer Voice 98.3%

ST. STEPHEN, S.C. — Black voters in South Carolina and other southern states are turning out in defiance of what many see as President Donald Trump’s efforts to suppress their political power, fueling Democratic hopes of clinching upset wins in the region in this fall’s midterm elections. more

With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules ^99.6%

The Washington Post - By Patrick Marley, Ben Binday - 6/28/2026, 10:00 AM

Framing Effect 100% - Negativity Bias 100% - Biased Writer Voice 100%

President Donald Trump’s efforts to alter how elections are run faced an avalanche of setbacks last week, as Republican senators rebuffed him and court after court hindered his administration’s plans to, as one judge put it, undercut “the sacred right to vote.” more

U.S. says it hit targets in Iran as hostilities erupt over Hormuz for third day ^77.1%

The Washington Post - By Victoria Craw, Suzan Haidamous - 6/27/2026, 1:08 PM

Framing Effect 54.1% - Negativity Bias 45.9% - Confirmation Bias 38.8%

The U.S. military on Saturday launched a fresh round of airstrikes against targets in Iran, hours after officials there said they were targeting U.S. interests in the Middle East. The clashes marked the latest threat to a ceasefire and ongoing talks toward a broader peace. Central Command said its forces targeted Iranian military... more

Deal with Trump hands Iran economic lifeline as leaders eye postwar gains ^95.2%

The Washington Post - By Susannah George - 6/27/2026, 9:00 AM

Framing Effect 100% - Biased Writer Voice 100% - Confirmation Bias 78.9%

The preliminary peace agreement between the United States and Iran, a broad framework still taking shape in early rounds of talks, hands Iran’s leadership a major economic lifeline as Tehran looks to consolidate strategic gains after months of war with Israel and the United States. more

In killing gang leader, Trump brings war-on-terror tactics to Latin America ^73%

The Washington Post - By Terrence McCoy - 6/20/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 76.1% - Framing Effect 59.7% - Negativity Bias 52.2%

MEXICO CITY — At a summit of Latin American leaders, President Donald Trump mused over the best way to take on the “bloodthirsty cartels.” It was simple, he said. “We’ll use missiles,” he said at the March event. “They’re extremely accurate — pew — right into the living room. That’s the end of that cartel person.” more

Trump condemned Obama’s Iran deal. Here’s how his own compares. ^64.5%

The Washington Post - By Sammy Westfall - 6/19/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 85.7% - Confirmation Bias 57.1% - Anecdotal 57.1%

President Donald Trump left no ambiguity as to how he felt about the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. In Trump’s first term as president, he withdrew from the accord, having called it “horrible,” “defective at its core,” “one sided,” a “road to a nuclear weapon,” and “one of the worst and dumbest” agreements “ever made... more

First steps in peace deal demand far more from U.S. than Iran ^98.2%

The Washington Post - By Greg Miller - 6/18/2026, 6:38 PM

Framing Effect 100% - Negativity Bias 100% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 100%

The memorandum to end the U.S.-Israel war with Iran is a document of diplomatic loopholes, Western officials and experts said, with hazy pledges to “undertake” steps in search of a lasting peace, a two-month timeline to solve issues that have vexed negotiators for years, and calls for finding an unspecified “mechanism” to enforce terms... more

Topic: North America

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

America’s 250th celebrations marked by severe weather, political division 28.8%

Voters are angry with Washington, and other takeaways from the Colorado primaries 96%

Protest changes policy when communities stay organized 58.9%

Why resisting Trump has galvanized Black Democrats as the midterms approach 97.4%

With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules 99.6%

U.S. says it hit targets in Iran as hostilities erupt over Hormuz for third day 77.1%

Deal with Trump hands Iran economic lifeline as leaders eye postwar gains 95.2%

In killing gang leader, Trump brings war-on-terror tactics to Latin America 73%

Trump condemned Obama’s Iran deal. Here’s how his own compares. 64.5%

First steps in peace deal demand far more from U.S. than Iran 98.2%