The Aporia · Peter Hartcher

Articles

6

2026-09-14 – 2026-11-02

Claims per article

58

351 extracted in total

Hedged claims

5%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

6,750

characters

Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

Politics

67%

Technology

17%

World

17%

Most-tagged topics

AmericaAustralianUkraineAmericanAustraliaCanadaCanadianCentral Committee

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3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.27 (leans left).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

China is a dictatorship. The midterms will prove if the US has also become one

12 outlets covered this event

2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Donald Trump is not only coddling Vladimir Putin. He is becoming Vladimir Putin

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

When Trump gets a thrashing at the midterms, four words will come back to haunt him

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Technology

Plenty of people believe that AI can be God. Just not the Pope

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · World

Why this new Ukraine pact is a war-game changer for Australia

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-09-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Euro-vision: Could Australia join the European Union? One key minister is open to it

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Euro-vision: Could Australia join the European Union? One key minister is open to it

🔮 When Donald Trump announced his so-called Liberation Day tariffs on just about every country on earth, while excepting Russia, of course, I asked an eminent economist how bad the damage would be. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Why this new Ukraine pact is a war-game changer for Australia

🔮 When Russia sent its first cruise missiles slamming into Kyiv and its mighty convoy roared toward the Ukrainian capital, the Western world expected that it would fall under Moscow’s control within three days. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Plenty of people believe that AI can be God. Just not the Pope

🔮 “One of their tenets is that we should start worshipping AI now, otherwise the AI will get upset that we didn’t recognise its divinity early enough,” says the chief scientist at UNSW.ai, the AI Institute of NSW University. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

When Trump gets a thrashing at the midterms, four words will come back to haunt him

🔮 Trump’s words from February will ring through the years. assertive

2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Donald Trump is not only coddling Vladimir Putin. He is becoming Vladimir Putin

🔮 Trump claimed this would cut the price of diesel in America. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

China is a dictatorship. The midterms will prove if the US has also become one

🔮 All the accumulating problems of China’s system will have to be confronted eventually, he predicts. assertive

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👤 Peter Hartcher

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