👤 Michael Mechanic

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-09-12 – 2026-10-30
Claims per article
82
326 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
10,850
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
50%
Economy/Business
25%
Technology
25%
Most-tagged topics
RepublicanAlabamaAmericaAnthropicBillionaire TaxCaliforniaClaudeDHS

Leaning

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4 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.
2026-10-30 · Mother Jones · Economy/Business
California Billionaires May Well Prevail in Their Quest to Block a State Wealth Tax
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-25 · Mother Jones · Technology
How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-14 · Mother Jones · Politics
States Already Have a Good Way to Ensure Election Integrity—and MAGA Hates It
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-12 · Mother Jones · Politics
ICE at the Polls? Ain’t Never Gonna Happen, Says This Voting Expert
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-12 · Mother Jones
ICE at the Polls? Ain’t Never Gonna Happen, Says This Voting Expert
🔮 At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan” nonprofit, threw a bucket of ice water on fears that the Trump administration might send federal troops or ICE agents to polling places. mixed
2026-09-14 · Mother Jones
States Already Have a Good Way to Ensure Election Integrity—and MAGA Hates It
🔮 And after a national election, if requested, ERIC will produce reports flagging any signs of potential illegal voting—of a person casting ballots in two or more states or casting more than one ballot in one state, or voting on behalf of a recently dead relative, for example. assertive
2026-09-25 · Mother Jones
How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI
🔮 Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III. assertive
2026-10-30 · Mother Jones
California Billionaires May Well Prevail in Their Quest to Block a State Wealth Tax
🔮 If Prop. 40 passes, it would be the first-ever tax on excessive wealth, as opposed to income, in the United States. assertive
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