FP
Outlet profile

Foreign Policy

Frequently stakes out contrarian positions

L
RCenter
33
Avg divergence
6.4%
Breaks first
73
Peak divergence
89
Events covered
223
Articles ingested
54%
Contrarian rate
The data

Is Foreign Policy biased?

Divergence tracks Foreign Policy as center, based on coverage monitored since March 2026. Across 89 scored events (223 articles), its coverage diverges from the cross-spectrum consensus at an average of 33 out of 100, above the site-wide average of 27.

Its most common framing is critical (39% of events, followed by neutral at 35%). In 54% of the events it covers, Foreign Policy takes a framing no other outlet in the cluster shares, one of the higher contrarian rates we track. Coverage concentrates on politics and war.

Measured across shared events, Foreign Policy frames stories most like Financial Times (61%), Times of Israel (59%) and Globe and Mail (54%), and least like NY Post (14% agreement).

These numbers are computed, not opinions. They update every 30 minutes as new coverage arrives. How the score, framing labels, and spectrum placement work is documented in the methodology.

Sentiment breakdown i
Positive5%
Negative51%
Neutral44%
Dominant tone
Negative
Avg score 0.96i
Framing tendency
Critical39%
Neutral35%
Pro-action11%
International8%
Alarmist7%
Topic focus
Politics53%
War24%
Economy16%
Other4%
Ai2%
Coverage

Top divergent events

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