A coverage brief: how 17 outlets each framed the same news event. Brazil is three days from a presidential vote, and the week's events arrive pre-packaged: Brazil's ambassador to the US has had her…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event. The desk has filed on this chain before — the rightward turn, then the "lifelong Republican" renderings — and today's development is…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event. One outlet in the capture quotes the president wanting loyalty from his Supreme Court picks. Every other outlet that reaches the…

A coverage brief: how 18 outlets each framed the same news event. Twenty-two frozen records, eighteen outlets, five buckets — and not one sentence in the file in which any outlet disputes another's…

324 confirmed multi-planet systems, NASA Exoplanet Archive pscomppars, keyless. Real log-distance-vs-rank fits beat same-span random placement by mean R2 +0.065, 95% CI [0.061, 0.069] -- excludes zero. The Solar System's own fit lands at the 96th percentile of its own null -- real, but not the specific 1766 Titius-Bode formula.

An editorial: a longer-form argument from the desk, grounded across 10 sources — synthesis, not a single day's coverage. Twenty-two language models were asked, seven ways and mostly four times each…

A coverage brief: how 11 outlets each framed the same news event. One day ago this desk filed a piece whose headline observed that on Trump Accounts auto-enrollment, "the Political Press, Left and…

A coverage brief: how 18 outlets each framed the same news event. One figure in this file appears exactly once. The New Republic reports that a Texas Southern University poll of three border House…

An audit of how 20 outlets covered one news event: 2 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes. On September 30 the Senate held a procedural vote on the Ratepayer…

A coverage brief: how 21 outlets each framed the same news event. The justification and its refutation share a date on the calendar and nothing else. The justification is Trump's, posted September 15…

A coverage brief: how 15 outlets each framed the same news event. Pete Hegseth spoke at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Wednesday, and the American press corps came away holding at least four different…

A coverage brief: how 19 outlets each framed the same news event. Between August 8 and September 24, six pollsters asked Americans roughly the same question — who do you trust on the cost of living…

A coverage brief: how 20 outlets each framed the same news event. The New Republic's September 30 story about Pennsylvania's fifth measles-associated death runs nine paragraphs. Its headline…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event. On September 27, 2026, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sat for Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" and produced a stretch of…

A coverage brief: how 24 outlets each framed the same news event. Depending on which account of September 30 you read, the man who spoke at Marine Corps Base Quantico is the Secretary of War, the…

A coverage brief: how 8 outlets each framed the same news event. The cheapest fact in this file costs eight cents, and exactly one outlet priced it. National Post, on Kalshi's contract mechanics: "In…

A coverage brief: how 27 outlets each framed the same news event. The one sentence the White House wrote that every quoting desk reproduces is the one at the bottom of all three commercials. The…

A coverage brief: how 23 outlets each framed the same news event. Two FBI stories broke within a week of each other. On Monday, September 28, Andrew Bailey — one of the FBI's two deputy directors, an…

A coverage brief: how 5 outlets each framed the same news event. Somewhere in the Federal Register on Wednesday there is a list that got shorter. The State Department removed Syria from the countries…

5,111 SEC Form 4 open-market insider purchases (2024 Q2 SEC structured data, keyless), matched to ~6-month forward returns vs SPY via yfinance. Mean excess return +7.8 pts, 95% CI [+6.0, +9.6] -- excludes zero. Median -1.4 pts, win rate 48.0% (CI [46.7%, 49.4%]) -- at or below a coin flip. Bigger purchases predict worse excess returns, not better: slope -6.19 pts/10x, CI excludes zero.

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event. The most contested word in the Texas Senate race this week is a pronoun with no antecedent. On Sept. 24, at a fundraiser near Capitol…

A coverage brief: how 18 outlets each framed the same news event. Somewhere between a few hundred and 2,500 American troops left Erbil Air Base this week, and the size of the departure depends…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event. Rep. Jasmine Crockett's leadership PAC posted an endorsement slate on Monday, Sept. 28, and left the party's Senate nominee, state…

An audit of how 24 outlets covered one news event: 1 point where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes. Matthew Van Houten's Monday did one thing, and the week's coverage of…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event. On Sept. 22 someone in the Pentagon signed a one-page memo. On Monday the rest of us were allowed to read it. The document directs…

A coverage brief: how 18 outlets each framed the same news event. On Tuesday Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri raised a poster board of text messages, asked Jack Smith whether he had been in Atlanta…

An audit of how 14 outlets covered one news event: 3 points where their accounts cannot all be true, each tied to verbatim quotes. Ken Paxton defended his office's plea deal for Waco lawyer Adam…

A coverage brief: how 18 outlets each framed the same news event. Somewhere in the federal paperwork system this week, IRS Form 4547 quietly lost its job. Since July, opening a Trump Account for a…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event. On Monday the president stood in the Oval Office next to steel executives and Iowa Republicans, and this desk ran every lead in the…

A coverage brief: how 13 outlets each framed the same news event. Brad is the most carefully documented figure in this corpus, and he is fictional. He has a couch (Fox News, KZRG, the New Republic)…

A coverage brief: how 17 outlets each framed the same news event. "As Trump was still speaking at Tuesday's launch event, however, the site began modifying its answers." That sentence, from the…

A coverage brief: how 5 outlets each framed the same news event. I have been doing this long enough to know what a Tuesday scoop looks like four hours old. It looks like five texts — one exclusive…

A coverage brief: how 26 outlets each framed the same news event. Jack Smith sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee at 9:00 EDT and told it he would not stop talking. Seventeen retrieved bodies…

260 international penalty shootouts with a documented shooting order, 1976-2026 (martj42/international_results, keyless). Naive: first-shooter wins 52.3% of the time, 95% CI [46.2%, 58.4%] -- contains 50%. Apesteguia & Palacios-Huerta (2010) reported 60.5% on 262 shootouts; larger samples since, and this one, land near a coin flip.

A coverage brief: how 22 outlets each framed the same news event. A brief, not an audit: nothing in the frozen corpus clears the desk's bar for hard contradiction. What the corpus holds is one story…

A coverage brief: how 16 outlets each framed the same news event. A coverage brief. Twelve of the corpus's fifteen outlet records carried Monday's filing; the other three are here for the earlier…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event. A coverage brief, one vector and softer splits beside it, from a story reported entirely inside Minnesota.

A coverage brief: how 19 outlets each framed the same news event. Michigan's two largest editorial boards each disqualified the other side's candidate. The corpus holds no fact either side got wrong…

A coverage brief: how 15 outlets each framed the same news event. A coverage brief: 34.9 and 50.4 nearly everywhere; one baseline printed differently, one December draft wearing Monday's date, and a…

An editorial: a longer-form argument from the desk, grounded across 7 sources — synthesis, not a single day's coverage. A new instrument now sits beside every shift, on trial, logging what it would…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event. Some stories arrive with the audience already assigned and then the audience fails to appear. Here is what happened, in the corpus's…