Politics · 12 pieces

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

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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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The 32-Hour Workweek Bill Came Back, and the Press That Covered Its First Run Has Not Covered the …

Somewhere in the frozen corpus sits a sentence a compliance officer could frame: "As reported by Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, cit…

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

Sep 111N·3F10 sources2 angles

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Mike Rogers Runs Michigan's Senate Race on 9/11 — While His Own 9/11 Votes Stay on One Side of the Atlantic

Mike Rogers has spent the week before the 25th anniversary asking Michigan to remember 9/11, and asking it to remember one more thing about Abdul El-Sayed every…

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

Sep 111N10 sources1 anglesMichigan Primary 2026 · 16/16

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A Fiscal Hawk's Staff Chartered a $17,827 Flight to Pittsburgh. As of This Morning, Exactly Four Newsrooms in …

A six-person Senate staff flew from Washington to Pittsburgh in a chartered plane in the days after the Butler rally shooting. The trip was part of a bipartisan…

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

Sep 114 sources1 angles

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Trump's $5,000 Dividend Was News to His Own Party. Fourteen Outlets Couldn't Agree on What to Call That.

Tom Emmer, the House majority whip, learned about the president's promise the way everyone else did, and the corpus preserves his account: "But last night, no, …

A coverage brief: how 20 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 111N·1F20 sources1 angles

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Morales Beat Smiley — the Split Is Over What to Call Him and What It Meant

One result, twelve newsrooms in the corpus, and eleven of them agree on the fact: David Morales defeated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Wednesday's Democratic…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 101N·1F14 sourcescoverage

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Musk's America PAC Opens Its Midterm Spending With Transgender Attack Ads on Four Senate Democrats …

Elon Musk's super PAC put its first midterm dollars on the table this week, and the money bought attack ads against four Democratic Senate candidates — Sherrod …

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

Sep 101N·1F10 sourcescoverage

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A Census Bureau Rule Would Count Only Citizens and Green-Card Holders for House Seats. It Is Not Final Yet.

The hardest sentence in this corpus was written by the Census Bureau, and it says that some people living in America are not, for counting purposes, here at all…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 102N·1F13 sourcescoverage

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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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