Vox

Average by layer

Word choice 80Temperature 86Flagged attribution phrases 94Headline wording 98 A weak layer pulls the total down.

Score over time

One snapshot a day from the archive. A change of method version is marked.

How each party is described

Sentences that mention only one side's party or politicians, counted for each side. Democratic side: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Democrat, Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Newsom, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Walz, Harris. Republican side: Republican Party, Republicans, Republican, Thune, Johnson, McConnell, DeSantis, Cruz, Greene, Vance, Trump. Asymmetry runs from −1 to +1; positive means the Democratic side gets more of that treatment, given how often each side is mentioned. Shown beside the score, never part of it. How it works

Asymmetry = (pD − pR) ÷ (pD + pR), where p = (count + 1) ÷ (sentences + 2) for each side. Shown when the two sides together have 3 or more cases. From 96 reports.

What its reports give readers to check

Averages across 96 full-text news reports. Shown beside the score, never part of it.

• Named sources per report: 1.0
• Unnamed sources per report: 0.2
• Primary-record links per report: 1.6
• Documents cited per report: 0.3
• Reports that cite no one: 2
• Reports noting a correction: 0

Words counted most often

• actually 115
• very 106
• of course 30
• huge 22
• backlash 20
• massive 19
• sweeping 15
• obviously 12
• reportedly 12
• arguably 11
• deeply 10
• claimed 10
• dramatically 9
• outrage 9

Steering signals

• Repeated framing: supreme court 7 of 96
• Front page: 1. History has a warning for the new Democratic majority; 2. Democrats made three big economic promises. They’ll need to break one.; 3. Hegseth escapes impeachment — for now
• Coverage choices: 55 of 72 widely covered stories in the last 14 days were not in this outlet's feed.
• Numbers: 15 sentences framed a figure as a gain and 16 as a loss in the last 30 days.
• Sponsor labels: none found.

These describe presentation and do not change the score. What each signal means and the research behind it.

Recent reports

• History has a warning for the new Democratic majority 72 Wed, Nov 11, 4:45 PM ET
• Democrats made three big economic promises. They’ll need to break one. 86 Wed, Nov 11, 6:30 AM ET
• Hegseth escapes impeachment — for now 97 Tue, Nov 10, 6:55 PM ET
• Hegseth’s “maximum lethality” comes back to haunt him 84 Tue, Nov 10, 5:30 PM ET
• What to know about the Republican-led effort to impeach Pete Hegseth 88 Tue, Nov 10, 3:50 PM ET
• The biggest blue wave in 50 years, explained in 7 charts 83 Tue, Nov 10, 6:30 AM ET
• Can Trump still be the religious right’s “imperfect vessel”? 94 Mon, Nov 9, 6:25 PM ET
• Trump’s mixed messages on immigration 96 Mon, Nov 9, 6:10 PM ET
• Sex, spies, and microchips 73 Mon, Nov 9, 5:25 PM ET
• Two cities just voted to get Flock cameras out. It’s only the beginning. 94 Mon, Nov 9, 11:00 AM ET
• Did the midterms kill MAGA? 71 Sun, Nov 8, 7:00 AM ET
• How Democrats can make good on their new mandate 70 Sat, Nov 7, 8:00 AM ET
• Trump doubles down on everything that lost him the midterms 91 Fri, Nov 6, 6:20 PM ET
• JD Vance’s bad week gets worse 87 Fri, Nov 6, 6:10 PM ET
• Dems won the midterms. How should they work with Trump? 74 Fri, Nov 6, 4:55 PM ET
• Los Angeles is about to test a new kind of housing politics 93 Fri, Nov 6, 1:15 PM ET
• The decency was the point 84 Fri, Nov 6, 12:00 PM ET
• What the midterms could mean for Trump’s Cabinet 86 Thu, Nov 5, 5:50 PM ET
• Midterm voters clearly wanted to make America nice again 88 Thu, Nov 5, 5:30 PM ET
• Rahm Emanuel knows how congressional Democrats can keep winning 89 Thu, Nov 5, 4:30 PM ET
• The moment Donald Trump blew the midterms 80 Thu, Nov 5, 1:30 PM ET
• The midterms were a youth revolt 86 Thu, Nov 5, 12:35 PM ET
• An unexpected winner of the midterm election: Animals 92 Thu, Nov 5, 6:30 AM ET
• A tiny Ohio town just found a way to make data centers pay 85 Thu, Nov 5, 6:00 AM ET
• Donald Trump would like to change the subject 94 Wed, Nov 4, 6:25 PM ET
• How Democrats won the Deep South 77 Wed, Nov 4, 6:00 PM ET
• Whose fault is the GOP’s cataclysmic defeat? 3 theories are gaining steam on the right. 88 Wed, Nov 4, 5:25 PM ET
• Democrats just seized one of the Republican Party’s most powerful weapons 75 Wed, Nov 4, 4:30 PM ET
• Abortion rights weren’t the story of the midterms. They still won. 89 Wed, Nov 4, 3:20 PM ET
• Five lessons from the blue tsunami 85 Wed, Nov 4, 3:05 PM ET
• Inside the GOP’s midterm bloodbath 85 Wed, Nov 4, 2:55 PM ET
• A million people could gain health insurance in Texas after Democrats’ huge win 93 Wed, Nov 4, 1:25 PM ET
• 10 ways Democrats could make healthcare cheaper after their huge election wins 79 Wed, Nov 4, 1:10 PM ET
• Who gets called a communist in America? 94 Wed, Nov 4, 12:01 PM ET
• How Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate race 87 Wed, Nov 4, 7:20 AM ET
• Why did voters (finally) hand Trump a historic defeat? 78 Wed, Nov 4, 1:55 AM ET
• The two issues that finally brought down Susan Collins 87 Wed, Nov 4, 12:43 AM ET
• A massive blue wave just hit America. Here’s what it could bring next. 87 Wed, Nov 4, 12:35 AM ET
• The Christian left is here 95 Tue, Nov 3, 11:40 PM ET
• What a blue wave could actually do 83 Tue, Nov 3, 5:00 PM ET