Political identity isn't a label you pick once. It shifts with the news, with what you learn, and with where you're standing that week.
How I Lean is a place to see where you actually lean, and to watch it move.
Nine quick questions across Gut, Heart and Head: instinct first, reasoning last. Two more short parts sharpen the result.
React to a few news stories each week, and mark the heated debates people argue about most.
Every quiz and story answer moves your leaning a little, and your drift shows how it has changed.
Only you can see your own answers, username and picture. Others see totals with no names attached, and you can delete your account and everything in it at any time. .
Results are named by six orientations, from Democratic Socialist to America First / MAGA, rather than just "left" or "right", because people who share a side often disagree with each other. There are no leaderboards and no points for picking a side: your results show where you overlap with other orientations as well as where you differ.
Every question offers answers written to sound like each orientation at its most reasonable, in a shuffled order. The wording, the descriptions and the positions behind them are our best approximation, and we're arranging an outside review to check them for fairness. If something reads as unfair, .
An independent project, funded by the people who use it.