👤 Anna Merlan

9 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
9
2026-08-27 – 2026-11-02
Claims per article
36
322 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,016
characters
Writes for Mother Jones.
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.

What they cover

Politics
67%
Health
11%
Other
11%
Technology
11%
Most-tagged topics
AfDMAGAACIPAlternative fur DeutschlandAmericanAmericansCNND.C.

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 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 -0.41 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-11 · Mother Jones · Politics
The Far Right Can’t Stand Being Called “Far Right”
31 outlets covered this event
2026-09-06 · Mother Jones · Politics
Trump Wants to Make Sure Every Voter Knows the Midterms Are a Referendum on Trump
26 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-08-27 · Mother Jones · Technology
Meta Doesn’t Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore
9 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-13 · Mother Jones · Politics
Drone Strikes Didn’t Take out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It
3 outlets covered this event
2026-09-06 · Mother Jones · Politics
John Fetterman Accuses “Disgruntled Staffers” of Spreading “Lies”
2 outlets covered this event
2026-11-02 · Mother Jones · Politics
The Bigot’s Wager
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-08-27 · Mother Jones
Meta Doesn’t Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore
🔮 (Though it was somewhat buried in the announcement, Meta also stipulated that it would only commit to enforcing its time limits and “night” modes for five years, but said it would extend that commitment to ten years “if industry peers sign on to the agreement.”) assertive
2026-09-06 · Mother Jones
Trump Wants to Make Sure Every Voter Knows the Midterms Are a Referendum on Trump
🔮 And that’s presumably why many GOP lawmakers and candidates would rather not hold a big party celebrating the success of the administration and tying themselves to it just before voters head to the polls. assertive
2026-09-06 · Mother Jones
John Fetterman Accuses “Disgruntled Staffers” of Spreading “Lies”
🔮 A May 2025 story in New York magazine reported on what staffers said was an alarming series of personality changes over time. assertive
2026-09-11 · Mother Jones
The Far Right Can’t Stand Being Called “Far Right”
🔮 If other states follow suit, the result could be a brewing crisis for German democracy, and a further signal that authoritarian, xenophobic politics are ascendant in Europe. assertive
2026-09-22 · Mother Jones
The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained
🔮 Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the president himself have continued to insist that AI is essential for American technological advancement and military might. assertive
2026-10-05 · Mother Jones
RFK Is Gloating That His Changes to HHS Are Permanent
🔮 “Even if I got hit by a truck tonight,” he told the room, “HHS will never go back to what it was before.” assertive
2026-10-13 · Mother Jones
Drone Strikes Didn’t Take out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It
🔮 For example, one may reject accounts with opposing political views by labeling them as bot.” mixed
2026-10-29 · Mother Jones
The Mysterious Disappearance (And Reappearance) of Jezebel’s Archives
🔮 Former Jezebel staffers—including me—began receiving messages from people familiar with the site’s current owners, the media company Paste, warning us to check our own archives and try to preserve what we could of our work. assertive
2026-11-02 · Mother Jones
The Bigot’s Wager
🔮 Before the midterms, they suggested, proof would emerge that the Chinese Communist Party has tried to rig past elections. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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