🎙️ What a show tells
The Daily (NYT)
- CENTERour grouping of the show
- 24claims in our motif index
- 38motifs they came up in
⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.
What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.
✍️ Its signature
the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do
🧩 Debt crisis 🧩 Politicians' empty promises 🧩 Political accountability 🧩 The buck stops here
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ WSJ What's News 33% alike · center
- 🎙️ Breaking Points 26% alike · center
- 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 21% alike · left
- 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 21% alike · left
- 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 20% alike · left
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 Debt crisis ×3 🧩 Political accountability ×2 🧩 The buck stops here ×2 🧩 Politicians' empty promises ×2 🧩 Owned politician ×1 🧩 Passing the buck ×1 🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers ×1 🧩 Targeting minorities ×1 🧩 Political party surge ×1 🧩 Blaming technology ×1 🧩 Blue Texas ×1 🧩 Data center panic ×1 🧩 Pain at the pump ×1 🧩 Be more French ×1 🧩 It's the economy, stupid ×1 🧩 Pants on fire ×1 🧩 Cruel and unusual ×1 🧩 Tail wags the dog ×1 🧩 Broken electoral math ×1 🧩 Cancel culture ×1 🧩 The puritanical woke ×1 🧩 Guillotine ×1 🧩 Inflation ×1 🧩 The regime-change playbook ×1 🧩 Bowling alone ×1 🧩 Markets hate uncertainty ×1 🧩 Divided government ×1 🧩 He doesn't want peace ×1 🧩 Lapdog ×1 🧩 After the election ×1 🧩 Picking their voters ×1 🧩 Even his own mother ×1 🧩 Sleeping giant ×1 🧩 The war hits your wallet ×1 🧩 Facts don't care about your feelings ×1 🧩 War drums ×1 🧩 Ducking the inquiry ×1 🧩 Mr. Security ×1
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-26 “Trump failed to deliver on campaign promises regarding electricity prices, gas prices, housing affordability, and healthcare.”
🧩 Political accountability 🧩 Politicians' empty promises 🧩 It's the economy, stupid - 2026-10-26 “Donald Trump has failed to fulfill many of the promises made during his campaign.”
🧩 Political accountability 🧩 Politicians' empty promises - 2026-10-26 “Amy Acton is a liar who cannot be trusted to be governor.”
🧩 Pants on fire 🧩 Even his own mother - 2026-10-26 “Democrats use economic frustration to emotionally override rational voter experiences.”
🧩 Facts don't care about your feelings - 2026-10-24 “Greg Abbott does the bidding of the world's biggest moneyed interests by allowing data centers to descend on rural Texas.”
🧩 Owned politician 🧩 Data center panic - 2026-10-24 “Democrats believe Texas could be a new battleground for success in the governor and Senate races.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Blue Texas - 2026-10-23 “Republicans are redrawing congressional maps to carve up Black districts and gain a conservative advantage.”
🧩 Targeting minorities 🧩 Broken electoral math - 2026-10-23 “Redistricting benefited Republicans and helped them gain seats.”
🧩 Picking their voters - 2026-10-23 “The Supreme Court decision on voting rights has caused a surge in Black voter turnout.”
🧩 Sleeping giant - 2026-10-22 “Donald Trump is completely under the control of Netanyahu and Israel.”
🧩 Tail wags the dog 🧩 Lapdog - 2026-10-22 “The U.S. and Israel plan to strike Iran's energy, nuclear, and military infrastructure.”
🧩 After the election 🧩 War drums - 2026-10-22 “Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to appoint a National Commission of Inquiry to investigate what went wrong during the October 7th attacks.”
🧩 Ducking the inquiry - 2026-10-22 “Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has devoted his life to protecting the security of Israel.”
🧩 Mr. Security - 2026-10-21 “Trump's trade wars have caused the price of many goods to increase.”
🧩 The buck stops here 🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers 🧩 Inflation 🧩 The regime-change playbook - 2026-10-21 “Trump's decision to go to war with Iran caused oil prices to spike.”
🧩 The buck stops here 🧩 Pain at the pump 🧩 The war hits your wallet - 2026-10-21 “Rising interest payments on debt will squeeze government finances and limit their ability to spend.”
🧩 Debt crisis - 2026-10-21 “High interest rates and huge deficits mean the federal government spends a trillion dollars a year on interest.”
🧩 Debt crisis - 2026-10-21 “A Democratic victory in the House and Senate could check President Trump's actions and affect the economy.”
🧩 Markets hate uncertainty 🧩 Divided government - 2026-10-20 “Social media platforms use a broken business model that leaves people lonelier and more disconnected.”
🧩 Blaming technology 🧩 Bowling alone - 2026-10-19 “Trump has publicly blamed Zelenskyy for the current state of the war.”
🧩 Passing the buck 🧩 He doesn't want peace - 2026-10-09 “Protesting against imperfect conditions is a part of the French tradition.”
🧩 Be more French - 2026-10-09 “France is facing a fiscal crisis due to years of overspending.”
🧩 Debt crisis - 2026-10-08 “Lethal injection was adopted as a way to make executions appear more humane.”
🧩 Cruel and unusual 🧩 Guillotine - 2026-10-03 “The current era of wokeness lacks forgiveness and functions like the Old Testament.”
🧩 Cancel culture 🧩 The puritanical woke