The Atlantic
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The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1857 in Boston as The Atlantic Monthly, it began as a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Today it features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- 🌶️ Worded to stir 47% of its headlines · median 32 · 1.5× the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 46% of its headlines · median 40 · 1.1× the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 5.1 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · 1.4× the median
- 📡 Wire copy 0% AP or Reuters headlines · median 0 · like the median outlet
The bar is this outlet; the tick ▏ is the median of the 145 outlets on the outlets page, over 30 days.
🧬 Its fingerprint
🏷️ No settled type
It sits between the types that
hold together.
📡 Wire: 4th percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 4% of the 83 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 52nd percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 52% of them.
👯 Behaves most like The Economist, Vox and Foreign Policy.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (25 of our stories, 335 headlines), not from its ratings.
🎭 The feelings in its headlines
😱 more fear than most less calm 🥛
Its headlines on its front page now against the average outlet's, ranked-choice style: to the right in orange, more of a feeling than the average outlet; to the left in teal, less; grey, within 2 points of it. The figure is in percentage points; hover or tap a row for both shares.
- 😱 fear +8 pts
- 🤬 anger +8 pts
- 🤯 surprise +5 pts
- 🤞 hope ≈ same
- 🤮 disgust -2 pts
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 😭 sadness -4 pts
- 🥛 no strong feeling -12 pts
📰 On its front page now
🐑 With the pack
headlines in our stories, by the story's rank among the 73 we follow now (the most outlets first); the bar is how many outlets run the story, 🫏 blue the left-rated share and 🐘 red the right-rated
🦄 Only here
headlines in none of the stories we follow: few or no other outlets ran them, as far as our matching can tell; numbered by their place on its front page
- 🦄 Democrats Should Cut a Deal With Trump
- 🦄 Can Republicans Quit Trump?
- 🦄 The Christian Nationalists Have a Plan
- 🦄 The Tension Between Two of the Democrats' Biggest Promises
- 🦄 Getting Too Close to Trump Was a Mistake
- 🦄 Jensen Huang's Apology May Be the Only Correct Use of AI
- 🦄 Prepare for the AI Apocalypse Like You'd Prepare for a Snowstorm
- 🦄 Trump Has Been Corroded by Hate
- 🦄 Can ICE Be Abolished Now?
- 🦄 Modi Is Facing 'A Million Mutinies'
- 🦄 The Case Against a 'Religious Left'
- 🦄 The Perverse Reason Health-Care Costs Are About to Surge