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Useful answers.
Evidence attached.

Connect your assistant to News That Doesn’t Suck. Find a visual explainer, read its claims and follow the sources behind it.

Public, read-only access · Educational beta · No API key

Connect with MCP.

Add this URL to a client that supports remote MCP over Streamable HTTP:

https://newsthatdoesntsuck.com/api/mcp

No account or credential is required. Access is limited to the publication’s public explainers and evidence records.

Protocol versions: 2026-07-28, 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26. Current clients use server/discover; older clients use initialize. Responses are JSON, with no persistent session.

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Read the registry manifest →

The manifest describes this endpoint. Registry publication and client installation are separate steps.

Six tools

From a question to its evidence.

Publication and coverage

get_publication

Read the publication identity, coverage, available topics and editorial status. Current content is educational explainers, not live news or election results.

Browse visual explainers

list_explainers

List actual public explainers, optionally filtered by a topic identifier from get_publication. Returns canonical links, dates and review status.

Search public explainers

search_explainers

Search the publication’s existing titles, reader questions, claims and context using words in the query. Returns matching explainers with canonical links and review status. No matches means no coverage; this does not search the web or invent reporting.

Read an explainer and its evidence

get_explainer

Read a public explainer, its answer, claim-level sources, scope, unknowns, review status and revision record, including its canonical citation link. Educational models remain explicitly illustrative.

Trace a claim to original evidence

get_evidence

Read a public claim’s scoped evidence trail, source retrieval dates, original records, limitations and unresolved lineage. Repeated reports do not become independent evidence.

Inspect a knowledge connection

get_knowledge_record

Read a public source, claim, topic, institution or mechanism with its typed connections. Relationships and hypotheses are not by themselves proof of causation.

Use with care

Dates and limits travel with the answer.

The current edition contains educational drafts awaiting human review. Sample counts and models are illustrative. Cite the linked explainer and original records, preserve uncertainty, and treat an empty search as no coverage. Follow official election offices for actual voting information and results.

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