Mamdani’s High-Wire Balancing Act Between ICE and NYPD Can’t Last
The piece argues Mamdani has condemned ICE but avoided addressing what NYPD officers did at the Oscar Belgal shooting scene.
Rhetorical techniques in the news, October 23, 2026
14 articles, drawn evenly from outlets rated left, center, and right. Each one lists the rhetorical techniques our model found — not a judgment of whether it's true.
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⚠️ This day is not evenly balanced: left 5, center 5, right 4. We had fewer articles available from right-rated outlets than from the others — usually because their feeds had already rotated the day's stories out by the time we built this page.
Kamala Harris gets crickets from Mississippi rally crowd after butchering motivational quote: ‘Let me repeat that’
Kamala Harris spoke at a Columbus, Mississippi rally for Senate candidate Scott Colom on Thursday.
NY Health Commissioner Says "Mother Nature" Is Punishing Amish Children With Measles Outbreak
The writer argues New York's former health commissioner showed hostility to the Amish with a "Mother Nature" remark about measles.
The Deep State Is Leaking Trump’s Most Sensitive Undercover Operations To The Washington Post
Washington Post reports the Pentagon is developing a deep-cover intelligence program to place operatives in private businesses to gather intelligence on China.
He Didn’t Ask | National Review
The piece argues President Trump did not consult the public before going to war with Iran.
GOP Candidate Confronted About Begging Supporters For Gas Money And Her Answer Says A Lot
NBC's Tom Llamas asked Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson about her request for gas money for the campaign bus.
Stunned CNN Host Blasts Trump for His Twisted Excuse for Sick MAGA Ad
Erin Burnett criticized Trump's defense of an ad in which Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar.
Virginia senator’s case is two different stories, depending on who’s telling it
Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas was indicted on racketeering conspiracy and marijuana distribution charges, 12 days before an election.
Texas congressman target of teen’s assassination plot
A 17-year-old from McKinney allegedly sought to kill Texas Rep. Keith Self, who was arrested by federal authorities early this month.
Fake pollster earlier said ‘We encourage reporters to ask us any questions’
Wedgewood Polls admitted its polls were fabricated, calling it a test of how easily fictitious data enters political coverage.
Trump pushback, Biden 'disaster' and gender surprise: 5 key moments from Kansas Senate debate
There’s a 100 Percent Chance These Polls Are Fake
Wedgewood Polls admitted its surveys were fabricated and deleted its website and social accounts.
Peter Pan Tariffs for Companies That Never Grow Up
The piece argues the infant industry case for tariffs has become a 'Peter Pan' argument for industries that never grow up.
Macron bans non-union protests amid France unrest
Macron said protests not organized by trade unions would be banned, ahead of demonstrations planned for Saturday.
How these articles were chosen
- Sources are a fixed, version-controlled list of outlets, not picked per day.
- Equal numbers are taken from left-, center-, and right-rated outlets, using the AllSides media bias ratings — those labels are theirs, not ours.
- Within an outlet we take the most recent articles from its politics or world section feed. No human picks the interesting ones.
- Live blogs, podcasts, video and photo galleries are skipped — they contain too little text to analyze.
The full source list
Ratings below are AllSides' own labels (retrieved 2026-09-09), not ours. We group Left and Lean Left together, and Lean Right and Right together, which balances direction but not intensity — the exact ratings are here so you can judge that yourself.
- Left: The Guardian (US) (Left), NPR (Lean Left), Vox (Left), Mother Jones (Left), The Guardian Tech (Left), Guardian Science (Left), NPR Business (Lean Left), NPR Technology (Lean Left), Guardian Opinion (Left), Mother Jones Environment (Left), HuffPost (Left), Slate (Left), The Intercept (Left), The Nation (Left), Salon (Left), The New Republic (Left), Common Dreams (Left), The Daily Beast (Left), The Atlantic (Left), Politico (Lean Left), ABC News (Lean Left), CBS News (Lean Left), NBC News (Lean Left), Al Jazeera (Lean Left), Axios (Lean Left), PBS NewsHour (Lean Left), Semafor (Lean Left)
- Center: BBC News (Center), Christian Science Monitor (Center), The Hill (Center), UPI (Center), Reason (Center), Ars Technica (Center), BBC Business (Center), CSM Environment (Center), Reason — Volokh Conspiracy (Center), Christian Science Monitor Commentary (Center), UPI Voices (Center), Bloomberg (Center), Straight Arrow News (Center), NewsNation (Center), Deutsche Welle (Center)
- Right: Fox News (Right), New York Post (Right), Washington Examiner (Lean Right), New York Post Business (Right), Fox Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Opinion (Lean Right), New York Post Tech (Right), Washington Examiner Business (Lean Right), New York Post Opinion (Right), Washington Times (Lean Right), National Review (Lean Right), The Federalist (Right), The Daily Wire (Right), The Daily Caller (Right), Washington Free Beacon (Right), Breitbart (Right), TheBlaze (Right), Just the News (Lean Right), RedState (Right)
Who owns each outlet, and every article we've analyzed from it: the outlets.
Limitations worth knowing
- Semblen detects rhetorical techniques, not left/right tilt.
- The model has known false positives on strong-but-legitimate language — particularly military reporting and opinion writing in the author's own voice.
- We list the techniques found. A technique flag is not a claim that an article is false, and we don't rank outlets against each other.
- Articles where the model found nothing are not published — there'd be nothing on the page.
- Each article is analyzed once, at the time shown on its page. Outlets sometimes update articles after publication, so a quoted phrase may no longer appear in the current version.
- Findings may include language an outlet is quoting rather than asserting — a politician's attack line, or an opponent's own words. We flag technique wherever it appears, including inside quotations.
- We link to each original article and quote only short phrases as evidence.