The news, with footnotes.
Sift curates 72 outlets across the political spectrum and adds the context the news assumes you already know — the background, the people and organizations involved, and how to read each source. Every link goes to the original.
4th firefighter dies from injuries while fighting western Colorado’s fast-moving wildfire
A 43-year-old firefighter died from burn injuries sustained while fighting a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border last month, marking the fourth firefighter fatality from this incident. The story highlights the deadly dangers firefighters face battling western wildfires.
The news is written for people who already have the context.
Most reporting assumes you know the players, the precedent, and where the source is coming from. Sift adds it back — so you can read across the spectrum and judge for yourself, with the footnotes in front of you.
Hand-picked to balance the spectrum and clear a factual-reporting bar. Outlets without a political-lean rating are peer-reviewed journals or sector specialists.
A footnote on every story.
Not a summary that replaces the article — context that lets you actually read it. The methodology is the product as much as the feature.
What you should know first
A short primer on the background the story takes for granted — the precedent, the stakes, why it matters now.
Terms you may not know
The jargon, acronyms, and procedure defined inline, so the paragraph actually makes sense the first time through.
Who's involved
Dossiers on the senators, agencies, and organizations named — who they are and where they sit, without leaving the story.
The source & the spread
Each outlet's AllSides lean and MBFC factual tier — cited and linked, never our own rating — plus how other outlets framed the same story.
One story, three angles.
Sift shows what each outlet chose to emphasize — described, not labeled “biased” or “objective.” You read; the product does the legwork.
Powell signals patience as inflation stays sticky; Fed leaves rates unchanged.
Markets read between the lines: rate cuts unlikely before the fall.
Wall Street recalibrates as rate-cut bets fade and bond yields climb.
Same event, three emphases. Sift puts them side by side and lets you draw the line.
72 curated outlets. Every rating sourced.
Hand-picked across Left, Center, and Right, each with a dossier: ownership, funding model, AllSides lean, and MBFC factual tier — cited verbatim with a link, reviewed quarterly, and applied symmetrically to every outlet.
- ABC News
- Al Jazeera
- Ars Technica
- Associated Press
- Axios
- BBC News
- Bloomberg News
- Business Insider
- Canary Media
- Carbon Brief
- CBS News
- CBS Sports
- CNBC
- CNN
- Deutsche Welle
- El País
- ESPN
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- Fox News
- France 24
- Inside Climate News
- Jacobin
- Le Monde
- MIT Technology Review
- Mother Jones
- MSNBC
- National Review
- Nature
- NBC News
- New York Post
- Nikkei Asia
- NPR
- PBS NewsHour
- Politico
- ProPublica
- Reason
- Reuters
- Science (AAAS)
- Slate
- Sports Illustrated
- STAT
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- The American Conservative
- The American Prospect
- The Athletic
- The Atlantic
- The Bulwark
- The Daily Caller
- The Daily Wire
- The Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Federalist
- The Free Press
- The Guardian
- The Hill
- The Intercept
- The Nation
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- The Times
- The Verge
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- The Washington Times
- USA Today
- Variety
- Vox
- Washington Examiner
- WIRED
What never enters the pipeline
- Aggregators — no original reporting.
- AI-content farms — synthetic articles without bylines.
- Low-factual outlets — regardless of political lean.
- Sites without — mastheads, bylines, or corrections policies.
- Crypto & supplement sites — dressed up as news.
Read today's news — with the footnotes.
72 curated outlets, the civic context the news assumes you already know, and a link to the original on every story.