Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol: We're Governed by Broken Men ⁠86%

By Sarah Longwell⁠91%

7/20/2026, 12:59:44 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Confirmation Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 55.3% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 1,183 faulty-reasoning hits from 237 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 78.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (3,114 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.80% of the article peer group.

Trump tried to steal the limelight and the valor of Spain at the World Cup, even as more troops died overseas; Stephen Miller regularly encourages ICE to be violent while Pete Hegseth pushes soldiers to be macho bullies. 
The leaders in this country are men with no center and no core. 
Now with the arrest of the Tate brothers in Miami, Trump gets a chance to extend his record of standing by sex pests and assaulters. 
Plus: Iran and the U.S. are dangerously escalating the war, ICE is going even more rogue, Maine Dems have a replacement for Platner, and generic ballot polling suggests voters aren't necessarily gravitating to Democrats—and the noisy DSA may have a lot to do with that. 
Bill Kristol joins special guest host Sarah Longwell. 
Show notes: 
Monday's "Morning Shots" 
Sam and Mark Hertling on the Iran strikes on an air base in Jordan 
Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" piece 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 45.6%Sarah Longwell: 9.9%The Bulwark: 5.8%Confirmation Bias45.6%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.8%The Bulwark: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 19.0%Sarah Longwell: 3.4%The Bulwark: 2.9%Availability Heuristic19.0%This article: 5.5%Sarah Longwell: 0.8%The Bulwark: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic5.5%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 5.5%Sarah Longwell: 0.7%The Bulwark: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias5.5%This article: 4.2%Sarah Longwell: 13.7%The Bulwark: 6.8%Framing Effect4.2%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 2.1%The Bulwark: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.8%The Bulwark: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.3%The Bulwark: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.3%The Bulwark: 1.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.5%The Bulwark: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 55.3%Sarah Longwell: 23.5%The Bulwark: 11.2%Negativity Bias55.3%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.7%The Bulwark: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 35.0%Sarah Longwell: 3.8%The Bulwark: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error35.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 3.1%The Bulwark: 3.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.1%The Bulwark: 1.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.5%The Bulwark: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 3.4%The Bulwark: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.3%The Bulwark: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 4.2%Sarah Longwell: 1.0%The Bulwark: 0.5%Primacy Effect4.2%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 26.6%Sarah Longwell: 8.0%The Bulwark: 3.3%Ad Hominem26.6%This article: 19.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.8%The Bulwark: 0.7%Straw Man19.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.8%The Bulwark: 3.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.8%The Bulwark: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.1%The Bulwark: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 40.5%Sarah Longwell: 12.2%The Bulwark: 8.2%Hasty Generalization40.5%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 2.2%The Bulwark: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.4%The Bulwark: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 35.0%Sarah Longwell: 11.5%The Bulwark: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion35.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.8%The Bulwark: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 29.5%Sarah Longwell: 3.1%The Bulwark: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)29.5%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.5%The Bulwark: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 5.5%Sarah Longwell: 0.2%The Bulwark: 0.3%Composition/Division5.5%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.6%The Bulwark: 2.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 5.5%Sarah Longwell: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.2%No True Scotsman5.5%This article: 14.8%Sarah Longwell: 2.4%The Bulwark: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.8%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.5%The Bulwark: 2.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 16.0%Sarah Longwell: 1.3%The Bulwark: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection16.0%This article: 55.3%Sarah Longwell: 24.6%The Bulwark: 15.3%Biased Writer Voice55.3%This article: 10.5%Sarah Longwell: 6.8%The Bulwark: 2.8%Indoctrination10.5%This article: 19.0%Sarah Longwell: 12.9%The Bulwark: 5.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias19.0%This article: 16.0%Sarah Longwell: 2.1%The Bulwark: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias16.0%This article: 31.6%Sarah Longwell: 28.3%The Bulwark: 4.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…31.6%

237 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers16%attributed speech199writer words
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Sarah Longwell • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 45 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageThe Bulwark Podcast • 13 words • 100.0% coverageThe Bulwark Podcast • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Sarah Longwell

100%flagged-word coverage
10 attributed words26% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+39.2 ptsWriter: 60.8%Sarah Longwell: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -23.6 ptsWriter: 23.6%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-22.6 ptsWriter: 22.6%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-19.1 ptsWriter: 19.1%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -19.1 ptsWriter: 19.1%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-12.6 ptsWriter: 12.6%Sarah Longwell: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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