Tribunal is built for fast-moving political and current-affairs publishing. It combines a bold, information-dense homepage with a ranked "Power Index" module, Markdown content collections, built-in static search, strong SEO defaults, persistent light/dark modes, accessible navigation, and provider-neutral forms, all shipped as mostly static Astro output with no client framework runtime.
Features
- Bold political front page: full-bleed hero, briefing columns, "Power Index" ranking, and a category slider
- Markdown articles via Astro content collections, with validated frontmatter (title, excerpt, category, author, tags, cover image, video)
- Category, tag, and author archive pages with pagination
- Built-in static search; no external service required
- Article pages with photo/video credits, share menu, and related stories
- Persistent light/dark mode
- Canonical URLs, sitemap, RSS, Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, and JSON-LD structured data
- Responsive, optimized Astro images
- System font stacks and local icons; no external font or icon requests
- Accessible navigation, skip link, focus states, and reduced-motion support
- Named newsletter signup and configurable contact form (provider-neutral)
- Tailwind CSS 4 design tokens
- Ready for static hosting or Cloudflare Workers deployment
Best Used For
- Political news outlets and policy publications
- Election and campaign coverage
- World-affairs and civic-accountability journalism
- Independent political writers and think tanks
