Politics in the last 24 hours.
4,457 articles from 281 domains, grouped into 3,487 stories; 362 of them were covered by 2+ domains. Most are about Government and policy. Updated Nov 8, 10:25 AM UTC.
What is being written about
Colour shows tone, positive minus negative coverage in points: red from −50 to −8 is more negative, grey between −8 and +8 is about even, green from +8 to +50 is more positive. A dashed tile has too few rated articles.
Size = number of stories · ▲▼ = change in share vs previous 24h
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Tone ≠ price forecast. Not investment advice.
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Political news tone today
According to Sonar, the political news tone index for the 24 hours to November 8, 2026, 10:25 UTC is 6/100 (strongly negative): 4% of rated articles positive, 54% negative, based on 4,457 articles from 281 domains. Against the usual level of 11, today's tone of political news is lower. In total, 3,487 stories from 281 domains in 24 hours. Top topics: government and policy (40%), security and terrorism (25%) and war and conflict (23%).
How the index is calculated
A model rates the tone of every article, and the index is the gap between the positive and negative shares, put on a 0 to 100 scale: 50 means they balance, and neutral articles are left out. The usual level is the mean daily index over the last 30 days. More in the methodology
How the media write about politics →
Topics in political news
- Government and policy — 40% of stories, index 16 (strongly negative)
- Security and terrorism — 25% of stories, index 0 (strongly negative)
- War and conflict — 23% of stories, index 5 (strongly negative)
- Elections and campaigns — 21% of stories, index 0 (strongly negative)
- Rights and protests — 16% of stories, index 5 (strongly negative)
- Geopolitics and diplomacy — 15% of stories, index 11 (strongly negative)
What Sonar is
Sonar reads 382 wires and newsrooms from across regions and the political spectrum, merges reprints into stories and rates the tone of the event, never of a side: de-escalation and agreements read positive, conflict and crises negative, procedure and polls neutral.