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Reports are for the longest arguments on the site: pages where the claim only works if the sourcing, chronology, and caveats are visible together.

Reports hold the longest arguments on the site. These are pages where the claim only works if the sources, the timeline, and the caveats are all visible together. They are not fast takes with footnotes bolted on. They are the part of the site built to survive serious scrutiny.

That takes more than length. A report should tell the reader four things. What question it is trying to answer. What kind of sources carry the argument. Where the analogy or timeline becomes open to debate. What stays uncertain even after a lot of reading. When a report uses polling, it should follow the disclosure norms from AAPOR and Pew Research Center. When it uses diplomatic history, it should point back to the record itself, including Office of the Historian materials and primary treaty texts.

Use this section when a short explainer is not enough. A reader who opens a report should feel the page expected to be checked.