Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The American Prospect in the Strong Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. The American Prospect is a print and online publication “promoting informed discussion on public policy from a progressive perspective.” Founded in 1990, the nonprofit corporation is based in Washington, D.C. The print magazine is published every two months.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for The American Prospect according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 33.11

Bias: -16.09

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
The Ambulance Chasers of Totaled Hospitals	-6.33	50.33
Trump’s Economy: Brute Force and Favor-Trading	-14.33	33.33
What Really Went Down at the Teamsters	-15	25.33
The New Kamala	-12.67	33
What Really Happened on October 7?	-13.33	36
To His Coy Fellow Democrats	-22.33	22
The Republican Party Is Coming for Birth Control	-21.33	25
Republican Court Rulings Keep Helping Republicans Win Elections	-16	36.67
Quackonomics	-1	52.67
Biden’s Nakba	-21.17	22
American Steel’s Succession	0	46.67
Silicon Valley Congressman Fundraising With Whiny Venture Capitalist	-20.33	29.33
The Fake ‘Left-Wing Attack on Science’	-16	35.33
Lawsuit: Defense Contractor Fired Whistleblower for Reporting Accounting Irregularities	0	46.67
The Problem Lender of Second-to-Last Resort	0	38.33
The Occupation Is Eating Israeli Democracy	-14	33.33
The Double Standard for Keeping Capital and Labor Honest	-12	34.67
Corporations Dominate Trade Advisory Panels	-11.33	42.33
The Grotesque, Wonderful Respect for Marriage Act	-13.67	36
Undone by Crazy Uncles	-26.33	21
In the Wake of ‘Dobbs,’ Biden Leans on Familiar Excuses for Inaction	-24	31
On Infrastructure, a Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal at All	-18	35.33
Court vs. Farmworkers May Foreshadow Court vs. All Workers	-19	36.33
Justice Department Shot Through With Corporate Influence	-15.67	36.67
The Crisis in State Governments Isn’t the Budgets, It’s the Governance	-7	42.67