Language Corner

Logue jam

A catalog of dialogues

By Merrill Perlman   May 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM

“Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans... More

The Audit

Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes

By Ryan Chittum   May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM

Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More

Campaign Desk

Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?

What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)

By Trudy Lieberman   May 15, 2012 at 03:19 PM

We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for... More

The Observatory

Attachment parenting, detached debate

Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance

By Curtis Brainard   May 15, 2012 at 02:15 PM

Time touched a nerve this week with its provocative cover photo of 26-year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet and her 3-year-old son... More

Behind the News

Stories I’d like to see

Press-dinner proceeds, cat-and-mouse China reporting, testing the testers

By Steven Brill   May 15, 2012 at 08:41 AM

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

Magazine: Review

The astroturf Cassandra

Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web

By Maureen Tkacik   May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Long before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At... More

Swing States Project

For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers

Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal

By Erika Fry   May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM

When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt... More

Page Views

What it takes to win the White House

A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate

By Jordan Michael Smith   May 14, 2012 at 03:00 PM

The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press... More

Swing States Project

Pushing back, making connections

Michigan political reporters have a job to do

By Anna Clark   May 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM

MICHIGAN — Quinn Klinefelter is a longtime news editor at WDET, the National Public Radio station in Detroit. His voice... More

The Audit

The business press embarrasses Jamie Dimon

London Whale, sighted one month ago, knocks billions off JPMorgan’s worth

By Ryan Chittum   May 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM

In what FT Alphaville called "the most excruciating bank conference call we’ve ever heard," press favorite Jamie Dimon announced last... More

Magazine: Feature

Postage due

The USPS is running out of money. Where does that leave magazines?

By Lauren Kirchner   May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General... More