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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Or as Scalia put it in his dissent from Plaed Parenthood v. Casey (1992), Value judgments . . . should be voted on, not dictated." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "This is a serious moment, said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who served with Pelosi during 9/11," | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "This is a serious moment, said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who served with Pelosi during 9/11," | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Long before the riot at the Capitol, Pelosi has considered solemn duty to the institution as part of her leadership post." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Pelosi's play this week infuriated McCarthy, the first House GOP leader during her nearly 20 years in power with whom she has almost zero relationship." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "This is deadly serious, Pelosi said Thursday, raising her voice and growing unusually animated as she explained her determination to move ahead with the select panel despite Republican protests." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Pelosi had a friendly rapport with former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and was cordial with former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Pelosi had a friendly rapport with former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and was cordial with former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Pelosi huddled with the panel's seven Democrats and sole GOP member, Rep. Liz Cheney, in her office on Thursday afternoon." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Pelosi huddled with the panel's seven Democrats and sole GOP member, Rep. Liz Cheney, in her office on Thursday afternoon." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The facts will take us where we go, not anything else, Pelosi told the group, according to a source in the room." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Members of Pelosi's ier circle insist that she doesn't consider the select panel as legacy-defining work during what could be her final turn with the gavel." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "She was going to go forward no matter what, said Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Mi.), who leads the GOP's campaign arm." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "They were hunting her, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The answer of 'we did no investigation' is just not a legacy that anybody -- forget about the speaker, but anybody, including Republicans -- should be willing to live with, said Rep. Jim Himes (D-Co.)." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "When Pelosi called McCarthy to inform him of her decision to block Jordan and Banks from serving on the panel, she was met with a wall of screaming, according to a source familiar with the conversation." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "A second source confirmed the call was tense but said both McCarthy and Pelosi had raised voices." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "McCarthy and his GOP members generally see Pelosi's decision to veto two of their members as undermining the seriousness of the select panel." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "I think she wants to show a clear contrast between a serious leader, a serious party that is serious about governing, and this unseriousness on the other side, said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "But the most popular parlor game in Washington is guessing when Pelosi might finally exit the Hill after a storied two-decade tenure atop the Democratic caucus." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "And as much as some in her party might want to move on from Trump, the speaker has made overseeing an investigation of the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries into a core mission this year -- putting her squarely in the path of the former president who Democrats say played a central role in the insurrection." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And no matter when Pelosi and her two longtime lieutenants -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn -- step down, their responses to the deadly insurrection and its aftermath will shape their legacies." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And no matter when Pelosi and her two longtime lieutenants -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn -- step down, their responses to the deadly insurrection and its aftermath will shape their legacies." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And no matter when Pelosi and her two longtime lieutenants -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn -- step down, their responses to the deadly insurrection and its aftermath will shape their legacies." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Her GOP opponents are warning that Pelosi's close involvement in the select committee on Jan. 6 exposes its efforts to politicization and failure." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Pelosi stued much of Washington this week by ridding the Jan. 6 select panel of a pair of vociferous Trump allies --" | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Pelosi stued much of Washington this week by ridding the Jan. 6 select panel of a pair of vociferous Trump allies --" | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Back in her office, staffers cowered under tables as rioters angrily chanted Pelosi's name outside a locked door." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But Democrats close to Pelosi dismissed those concerns, saying the 2022 election will be won or lost on the state of the economy and not anything else." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Then came Jan. 6, when Pelosi and other party leaders were whisked from the floor just minutes before rioters broke into the House chamber." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "I'm not talking about him, Pelosi told reporters when asked about McCarthy Thursday." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "And the sight of a mostly Democratic select committee had some of the most vulnerable members in Pelosi's caucus whispering about the potential fallout ahead of a brutal midterm election." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "They argue that the speaker's unprecedented step to pluck Trump's biggest defenders off the GOP roster shows that the investigation's mandate is chiefly to fight the former president." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The volatile former president and Pelosi foe is long gone from the White House but still haunts Capitol Hill." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Democrats close to Pelosi say although the speaker no longer engages in daily verbal combat with Trump, she still sees him and his loyal band of insurgent followers as a once-in-a-generation threat to American democracy." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Democrats close to Pelosi say although the speaker no longer engages in daily verbal combat with Trump, she still sees him and his loyal band of insurgent followers as a once-in-a-generation threat to American democracy." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Instead, her confidants say, Pelosi feels like she was left with no choice after GOP leaders mobilized to block an independent probe and a separate Senate-led investigation was dismissed as too narrow, with virtually no discussion of Trump's role." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Instead, her confidants say, Pelosi feels like she was left with no choice after GOP leaders mobilized to block an independent probe and a separate Senate-led investigation was dismissed as too narrow, with virtually no discussion of Trump's role." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "For both parties, this week was a reminder that Congress is still in the throes of a painful reckoning over Donald Trump's hold on the GOP, as the former president's influence only grows across the campus since his election loss." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "But Pelosi and many Democrats insist a full investigation -- a separate committee with its own resources -- would uncover new details about exactly where order broke down and how Trump and his GOP allies fueled the violence at the Capitol." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "But Pelosi and many Democrats insist a full investigation -- a separate committee with its own resources -- would uncover new details about exactly where order broke down and how Trump and his GOP allies fueled the violence at the Capitol." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "And it was yet another sign that Pelosi -- who has already shepherded her party through two Trump impeachments -- won't hesitate to wage brutal combat with her political opponents, despite her party's slimmest margins in decades." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "And it was yet another sign that Pelosi -- who has already shepherded her party through two Trump impeachments -- won't hesitate to wage brutal combat with her political opponents, despite her party's slimmest margins in decades." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "And with Trump sidelined, Pelosi has been able to shift her focus away from countering his administration's policies to shielding Congress from what she sees as his dangerous brand of politics, a clash with implications for the institution that will long survive her tenure." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "And with Trump sidelined, Pelosi has been able to shift her focus away from countering his administration's policies to shielding Congress from what she sees as his dangerous brand of politics, a clash with implications for the institution that will long survive her tenure." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The move left Trump's chief antagonist in his own party, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), as the sole GOP member of the investigation, although Pelosi hinted Thursday she might add more Republican representation." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The move left Trump's chief antagonist in his own party, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), as the sole GOP member of the investigation, although Pelosi hinted Thursday she might add more Republican representation." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The move left Trump's chief antagonist in his own party, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), as the sole GOP member of the investigation, although Pelosi hinted Thursday she might add more Republican representation." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Nancy Pelosi has some unfinished business with Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Nancy Pelosi has some unfinished business with Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) -- drawing fierce criticism from Republicans, who slammed it as the latest example of her overreach as speaker." | Negative | -80% Liberal |
| "Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) -- drawing fierce criticism from Republicans, who slammed it as the latest example of her overreach as speaker." | Negative | -80% Liberal |
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48% : Or as Scalia put it in his dissent from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), "Value judgments . . . should be voted on, not dictated."*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.