Ten ways of reading the same news.

Reads everything through class and power. Sees society split between the people who own (factories, banks, media) and the people who work. It treats capitalism itself as the root cause of inequality, war, and injustice, and reads strikes, foreign policy, and corporate profits as class struggle and empire.

Read here, for example: People’s World, Liberation News, Workers World.

The same critique of capitalism, but through the ballot box. Shares the view that capitalism produces deep inequality, but wants to move past it through elections, unions, and public ownership rather than revolution. It sees the Democratic establishment as too cautious and corporate to deliver real change.

Read here, for example: Jacobin, The Intercept, Truthout.

Institutions, norms, and incremental reform. Trusts courts, agencies, universities, and the professional press to improve society gradually. It supports a strong safety net and regulated markets, and treats threats to democratic norms and the rule of law as the top story.

Read here, for example: The Guardian, NPR, CNN, The Atlantic.

Process over position. The view from the middle. Reports what officials say and do without an explicit agenda. It values procedure, access, and institutional stability over any theory of what good government should look like, which is why it reads as "just the facts" and why critics call it false balance.

Read here, for example: Reuters, Associated Press, BBC News, The Hill.

Free markets, strong institutions, the establishment right. The free-market, institutional right of the GOP establishment, defined as much against MAGA populism as against the left. It backs free trade, fiscal discipline, and a hawkish internationalism, and prizes constitutional and institutional guardrails over populist disruption.

Read here, for example: National Review, City Journal, The Dispatch, the WSJ editorial page.

Liberty first, on both the economy and your private life. The only lens here that opposes government from both directions at once: against economic regulation and against moral regulation. It backs free markets and free speech, drug legalization and open immigration, and is often the sharpest critic of tariffs and executive power on the right.

Read here, for example: Reason, Cato Institute, The Free Press.

Nation first. Elites distrusted. A populist-nationalist movement, not traditional conservatism. It combines economic protectionism, cultural conservatism, and deep distrust of the media, federal agencies, and academia, and is comfortable with strong government when it serves nationalist ends.

Read here, for example: Breitbart, The Federalist, Daily Wire.

Faith and moral order as the lens on public life. Reads politics through religion and a traditional moral order, broadened past evangelical Protestantism to the whole religious right, Catholic and Protestant. Abortion, religious liberty, and the family are defining issues. Internally it spans populist evangelical broadcast, intellectual Catholic post-liberalism, and anti-war paleoconservatism.

Read here, for example: CBN News, Christianity Today, First Things, The American Conservative.

The news as lived by America’s communities, and where they split. Many community standpoints under one lens (Black, Latino, Asian American, Jewish, Palestinian and Arab American, LGBTQ, Muslim, women, disability, Native, and more), each asking first how a story lands on its community. They often disagree sharply with one another, and we analyze this lens for that internal split, never as a scoreboard.

Read here, for example: The Root, The Forward, Mondoweiss, The 19th, Al Jazeera.

The technology debate the left-right dial can’t see. Treats technology, AI, and the capacity to build as the first-order political question. It is internally split between build-it optimists and brake-it skeptics, a divide that cuts across left and right, so we analyze it for the geometry of the argument rather than a single verdict.

Read here, for example: Wired, 404 Media, Noahpinion, Marcus on AI.