Work first. Juice boxes later.

By Clint Hendler   Oct 29, 2008 at 04:05 PM

Kid reporter Damon Weaver (taking a break from his day job as a student at Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary... More

Behind the Money

By Clint Hendler   Oct 29, 2008 at 09:22 AM

Politico's Mike Allen writes up an email from the Obama campaign, cataloging a raft of October fundraisers that trade access... More

All by himself…

By Clint Hendler   Oct 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM

McCain's planning a rather unorthodox election night tableau. From the AP: Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at... More

Better late than never

By Clint Hendler   Oct 22, 2008 at 03:06 PM

A quote from Seymour Hersh, portending interesting stories on the Bush administration, even after inauguration day: "You cannot believe how... More

We’re All Just A Little Bit Socialist

And the press could point out that it’s no big deal

By Clint Hendler   Oct 22, 2008 at 01:51 PM

Forgive the foray into middle school essay writing, but here goes: The Oxford English Dictionary defines socialism as: A theory... More

“That’s Not Right.”

What to do when confronted with the “Obama is a Muslim” rumor?

By Clint Hendler   Oct 20, 2008 at 01:17 PM

It was a cold night in early January when Dana Goldstein, a writer for The American Prospect, was interviewing caucus... More

Trib goes for Obama

By Clint Hendler   Oct 17, 2008 at 04:57 PM

In a not entirely unexpected move (Chicago Reader media critic Mike Miner suggested the possibility last month) the Chicago Tribune... More

Kicked Around

By Clint Hendler   Oct 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM

At a rally in North Carolina yesterday, Joe Killian, a reporter for the Greensboro News & Record, got kicked to... More

Iceland: “Back to Fish”

By Clint Hendler   Oct 16, 2008 at 02:36 PM

There's been a decent amount of coverage of tiny Iceland over the last couple of weeks, as the country's banking... More

Plumbing out the Context

By Clint Hendler   Oct 16, 2008 at 09:54 AM

As Joe The Plumber enjoys his 15 minutes, would it be too much to ask that some of that time... More

IM’ing past each other

By Clint Hendler   Oct 15, 2008 at 04:36 PM

Today New York magazine moderated--egged on?--an instant messaging bout between Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and The National Review's Byron York.... More

Live, From A Blog, It’s Debate Night!

Live bloggers dish on the process

By Clint Hendler   Oct 15, 2008 at 04:10 PM

Most political bloggers would say that their craft requires a careful, often uneasy balance between taking the time to develop... More

ADN editorial page is clear on Palin

By Clint Hendler   Oct 14, 2008 at 01:14 PM

On Friday, an Alaska investigative committee released a report into Palin's attempts to remove her ex-brother in law from the... More

Cleverer smears, please

By Clint Hendler   Oct 14, 2008 at 10:02 AM

An otherwise charming Pat Healy piece on Palin's rhetorical style and campaign gets a little detail wrong: “Man, I love... More

Irony, meet Objectivity

By Clint Hendler   Oct 14, 2008 at 09:46 AM

The constraints that come along with writing for an excellent newspaper, like The New York Times, often cut down on... More