Ending “Lame” Data

Aneesh Chopra gives an update on the Open Government Directive

By Clint Hendler   Jun 4, 2010 at 02:01 PM

This morning, Aneesh Chopra, who as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer was charged with the development of the Obama... More

Ellsberg and Assange

America’s most famous leaker meets a WikiLeaks founder

By Clint Hendler   Jun 3, 2010 at 02:23 PM

It was a meeting across generations and technology. Daniel Ellsberg, who made his name nearly forty years ago by providing... More

Taking out the Sestak Trash

By Clint Hendler   May 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM

With Obama’s promise at yesterday’s press conference that the White House would imminently (“When I say ‘shortly,’ I mean shortly.... More

Massa in the movies?

By Clint Hendler   May 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Just when you thought the only thing left to come of the Congressman Massa resignation (the one that brought us... More

Secretary of Best Guesses

Timeline sinks longstanding Sestak Navy rumor

By Clint Hendler   May 26, 2010 at 09:00 AM

Last Wednesday, after Pennsylvania Democrats picked Representative Joe Sestak over long serving (and recently Republican) incumbent Arlen Specter as their... More

The Novak Files

By Clint Hendler   May 21, 2010 at 09:40 AM

Yesterday, The Washington Post ran an article on the late Robert Novak's FBI files. It turns out that in the... More

Blumenthal Blunders

NPR shines where the Times didn’t

By Clint Hendler   May 19, 2010 at 01:27 PM

Despite a congressional sex scandal and three closely watched Senate primaries, yesterday’s news was dominated by The New York Times’s... More

Opening the Presidential Records Act

By Clint Hendler   May 13, 2010 at 02:52 PM

We’ve just published a piece discussing how the Presidential Records Act contours access to documents that Supreme Court Elena Kagan... More

Following Kagan’s Paper Trail

Meet the gatekeeping Presidential Records Act

By Clint Hendler   May 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM

When John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2005, journalists touched down at the Ronald Regan Presidential Library... More

Kentucky Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know

Nasty fights, a kingmaker challenged, and class warfare

By Clint Hendler   May 10, 2010 at 04:43 PM

Joe Gerth is a political reporter and columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s largest paper. The Louisville native and resident... More

Stop Blaming The Huffington Post

By Clint Hendler   May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM

When I think about The Huffington Post, I’m troubled. But when I think harder, I reconsider what, exactly, makes me... More

NPR goes Gaga

By Clint Hendler   May 6, 2010 at 02:52 PM

OK! Internets, are you ready to take this viral? What's "this," you ask? Well, of course, it's video of National... More

Unproductive Outrage

By Clint Hendler   May 4, 2010 at 10:15 AM

This morning's Politico Playbook has some advance excerpts from Jonathan Alter's The Promise, our next big Obamabook. Here's one: When... More

An Attempted FOIL

NY governor’s office denies CJR’s records request

By Clint Hendler   Apr 29, 2010 at 06:59 PM

Late this afternoon I got an email from the New York governor’s office initially denying a pair of requests I... More

Three way

By Clint Hendler   Apr 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM

The political world is awaiting Florida Governor Charlie Crist's press conference, slated for 5:30 today. (Why then? I'd guess to... More