Politics · 8 pieces

Congress, the White House, the campaigns — the same event, every newsroom's version of it, and the record underneath.

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ICE's September contracts: the ledger holds 113 awards, the coverage found three

I was handed a number before I went looking: twenty new ICE contract awards between August 28 and September 19, totaling $252,141,439. I ran the same query live…

A coverage brief: how 4 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121N·1F9 sources1 angles

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Texas Senate money: who paid, across forty-five days of filings, and why one PAC carries two prices

I pulled the Schedule E independent-expenditure filings for the Texas Senate race, July 29 through September 12, 2026: two hundred rows. I added them up. The nu…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 122F8 sources1 angles

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A bill with 142 cosponsors has one line of action history, filed a year ago

H.R. 5106, the Restore Trust in Congress Act, was introduced September 3, 2025. Its bill-status record carries three actions, all dated that day: introduced in …

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121N·1F13 sources1 angles

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One Letter, Four Volumes: House Democrats Ask Johnson to Cancel the Recess Over AI, and the Four Outlets That …

The corpus arrived this week with a shape I have not been handed before: a one-origin story with a full gradient but no seam. A letter drafted by Rep. Sam Licca…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121N·1F6 sources1 angles

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Interior Says It 'Disapproved' $25 Million in Park Funding. The Post Has the Only Report, and Three Other …

The whole of Interior's written reasoning for withholding at least $25 million in already-secured park funding, as preserved in the documents at the center of t…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121N·1F6 sources1 angles

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A Conservative Judge Predicted 'Another January 6' on January 3, 2027. Three Outlets Relayed It. One …

Ten months before J. Michael Luttig posted "The Final Battle for America's Democracy," the story he was about to tell already had a rap sheet. Derek Muller's El…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121N·1F7 sources3 angles

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A Quinnipiac Poll Put Democrats +11 on the House. Three Outlets Published It …

This file's most diligent distributor of the Quinnipiac poll is not a newsroom at all. It is a wire feed. Beyond the three outlets that originated the story, th…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121F10 sources3 angles

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Hegseth's Iowa Trip Was Personal. The Airplane Was Not.

I keep a small, dumb field for phrases that recur unmodified across sources months apart, and "personal capacity" has been sitting in it since May. It reappears…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Aug 181N9 sources4 anglesHegseth's Campaign Trail · 1/1

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