The New Yorker Cover Up

Why we’re talking so much about so little

By Clint Hendler   Jul 16, 2008 at 08:05 AM

It’s hard to know what to make of the week’s early outrage over the New Yorker cover depicting the Obamas.... More

Lieberman, not quite told

By Clint Hendler   Jul 14, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Today, The New York Times writes up the inevitable “What of Joe Lieberman?” piece, teasing the uneasy relationship between some... More

A Day at CJR

By Clint Hendler   Jul 3, 2008 at 02:59 PM

The Nation is running a little contest to get people to sign-up for their email lists. The grand prize? One... More

Cindy, We Hardly Know You

By Clint Hendler   Jun 30, 2008 at 12:53 PM

If you don’t feel like you know a thing about Cindy McCain, this Newsweek profile by Holly Bailey is worth... More

Where’s the Outrage?

Nader hints at a racial landmine

By Clint Hendler   Jun 27, 2008 at 02:35 PM

On Wednesday, Ralph Nader entered the campaign churn for the first time since he announced his run on Meet the... More

Len Downie, Author

By Clint Hendler   Jun 25, 2008 at 05:06 PM

Another excerpt from that valedictory interview with the Washington Post’s Len Downie, this one on his plans to write fiction... More

Len Downie, Automaton

By Clint Hendler   Jun 25, 2008 at 02:44 PM

As flagged by Romenesko, here’s a hard to believe exchange from an online Q&A with now-officially outgoing Washington Post editor... More

PDF: Where the Web, Politics, (and Hotpants) Met

By Clint Hendler   Jun 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM

On Monday and Tuesday, several hundred lovers of technology and democracy converged on New York’s Time-Warner Center to talk about... More

Annals of Worthless Quotes, Pt. 2765

By Clint Hendler   Jun 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM

Sometimes a quote provides evidence or elucidates a point. Sometimes it fills a hole and makes you scratch your head.... More

Turning Point: Immigration

Candidates not eager to talk? No problem.

By Clint Hendler   Jun 17, 2008 at 09:17 AM

This is part eight of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More

Mr. Sinclair Goes to Washington

By Clint Hendler   Jun 13, 2008 at 04:24 PM

Perhaps you’ve not yet heard of Larry Sinclair, the YouTube star who attests that in 1999 he shared coke, crack,... More

Big Fish, Low Rates

By Clint Hendler   Jun 13, 2008 at 11:32 AM

This week, The Wall Street Journal exposed that Obama V.P.-vetter James Johnson had obtained favorable loan rates with the help... More

Dart to the Ottawa Citizen

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By Clint Hendler   Jun 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Dart to the Ottawa Citizen for a little Canadian logrolling. When the Canwest media conglomerate launched a proprietary wire service... More

Turning Point

It’s been a hell of a race. Now, let’s get serious.

By Clint Hendler   Jun 6, 2008 at 10:21 AM

This is Part Two of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More

What About Edwards?

“Altering” Michigan’s results

By Clint Hendler   May 22, 2008 at 04:04 PM

Jonathan Alter’s most recent Newsweek column rightly takes Hillary Clinton to task for her insistence that more people have voted... More