Every Monday, Pierce automatically reads across the political spectrum so you never have to choose a side.
Listening Across the Spectrum
Six podcast voices — Pod Save America, The Daily (NYT), The Journal (WSJ), BBC Global News, Reason, and The Ben Shapiro Show — are read in full each week. Together they span left, center-left, center-right, hard right, libertarian, and international perspectives. Pierce records every major topic each show chose to cover, and how they framed it.
Reading the Wires
Hundreds of articles from Reuters, AP, BBC, NPR, Politico, The Hill, and The Guardian are pulled and analyzed each week — including full Guardian article text, not just headlines. Wire services and straight-news desks are prioritized because they report facts, not narratives — they form the factual baseline before framing is layered on.
Pulling the Primary Data
Five primary data feeds bring in what news coverage often misses: Federal Reserve press releases, EIA energy data, Pew Research polling, Federal Register rules and notices, and Congress.gov bill activity. Fifteen FRED economic indicators provide weekly context on jobs, inflation, interest rates, housing, and the federal deficit — sourced directly from the St. Louis Fed.
Finding This Week's Topics
Claude AI reads all podcast coverage and identifies 3–5 major political topics for the week. These are the stories that broke through across the political spectrum — not just what one side was focused on.
Building the Brief
For each topic, Pierce generates a structured brief with seven layers: The Point (the most counterintuitive or underreported fact), The Through Line (what the preponderance of evidence actually suggests), What Happened, What the Data Says, Where Sources Agree, Where They Disagree, and What Each Side Might Be Missing. While writing, Claude runs live web searches to verify key facts and pin down specific numbers — vote margins, polling figures, dollar amounts — against primary sources.
What Pierce Is Not
No hot takes written to keep you angry. No algorithm deciding what you see next. No editor with a political home. Just a pipeline that runs every Monday and publishes what it finds.