Ranked by volume. Each topic, its narrative nudge and a real headline to verify.
Reading the headlines…
Why it works on you
The levers.
Each emotion pushed is a documented lever in persuasion science. You see it → you resist it better.
🧬 Methodology
Each public RSS headline is classified by AI into a fixed list of topics, then each topic is analyzed (tone, narrative nudge). Every article is filed — no invented figures.
Signal vs noise ·
What's talked about. What's moving.
We continuously measure structural tension in the United States. Here we compare: do our 9 sources cover what is actually under strain?
▸ Our tension scale
CalmWatchStrainedVery strained
Cross-referencing…
🧬 How we calculate
We track public data (Census/ACS, CDC, BLS, FRED, WID) and convert it into a 0–100 tension level per topic. In parallel we analyse the headlines of nine major U.S. outlets every morning — not the whole press: our 9 sources are listed below. When a topic is highly strained but missing from their front pages, we call it a blind spot. A topic with no matching data — crime stories, culture — is never force-matched.