FAQs
The basics
Neither. We have writers from across the political spectrum who advocate to make sure their political views are fairly represented. The Pour Over aims to be politically neutral not because the middle is correct – it’s often not – but because we believe it is what is most helpful in understanding current events.
Yes! TPO is always free, and always will be. If you want more, our app has the option to pay for a premium Christ-first news experience (where you also get to hang out a little more with our squirrel mascot, Shadrach).
The Pour Over is 97% owned and controlled by employees (the other 3% is friends and family). We have complete editorial independence, so all our mistakes are our own!
We believe in the sanctity of life, and we believe that Christians are called to love and care for the unborn, single mothers, women who have received abortions, and people who passionately disagree with us on this topic.
How we work
Our goal is to understand all sides of a story before we summarize for our readers. This means we read a wide range of sources, including outlets that are generally politically center (e.g., Reuters, The Hill), overtly conservative (e.g., Fox News), overtly liberal (e.g., CNN), and plenty of others (e.g., WSJ, AP, Axios, BBC). We typically link multiple sources in every story for you to fact-check or dive deeper into a story.
Click here to read more about how we handle story selection.
We use AI tools like you’d use an untrained intern… they help us with our grunt work and we use them as a sounding board, but we’re always triple-checking their work because we don’t *totally* trust them (read: we barely trust them at all). Writers use ChatGPT to bounce ideas around and provide feedback, but content originates in our heads, and any AI insights undergo robust human editing before seeing the light of your inbox. AI tools don’t play the role of sounding board (or any role whatsoever) in the composition of prayers for The Pour Over.
We send the news to your inbox on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and send a deeper dive into one audience-voted topic in Saturday’s “TPO Explains.”
Absolutely! We love emails, but you can also find our podcast, it's the newsletter, but for your ears, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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