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1. Campaign Desk

   Strange Medicine

   March 24, 2010 12:52 PM

   Like a lot of people, Tom Friedman is upset that American politics is “broken.” Unlike a lot of people, he has a regular column in a major newspaper in which he gets to propose fixes. He took a... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Things to Keep in the Back of Your Mind…

   March 23, 2010 04:34 PM

   … while reading the many stories out now, and the many more sure to come, that try to gauge the effect the health care vote will have on the 2010 midterms: • “Under any plausible set of circumstances... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Washington Post Plays “What If”

   March 23, 2010 04:23 PM

   On the day that Barack Obama signed into law a major overhaul of the health care system, thus fulfilling a top campaign promise and a long-term goal of his party in the face of a Republican minority that is unprecedentedly... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Fox and the GOP: Who’s Working for Whom?

   March 23, 2010 12:55 PM

   Via Media Matters, former-Bush-speechwriter-turned-iconoclast-conservative David Frum appeared on ABC’s Nightline last night to discuss the politics of health care. Frum, pushing the argument that lockstep opposition from right-wing media actually helped advance a Democratic bill, said: Republicans originally... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Calderone: Weigel to Post

   March 22, 2010 02:43 PM

   Ten days ago, in the course of chiding The Washington Post for being slow to the Tea Party story, I made a passing reference to Dave Weigel’s stellar coverage of the movement for The Washington Independent. So while... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Presidents and Polarization

   March 22, 2010 02:03 PM

   Our roundup of health care headlines this morning noted that one of the major themes of the coverage has been the political divide, and the polarization of both opinion and votes along party lines. The implication of this... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Historic Change, Divided Politics

   March 22, 2010 09:19 AM

   In the wake of last night’s vote in the House to approve a major overhaul of the nation's health-care system, there were two major themes in this morning’s coverage: historic change, divided politics. The New York Times deemed... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Wise Words

   March 17, 2010 12:28 PM

   From Jack Shafer: In a perfect world, a publication is edited for readers. In the imperfect world that we inhabit, too many publications are edited for the benefit of their staffs and their friends and associates. The particular... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   He-Said, She-Said on Medicare

   March 16, 2010 02:47 PM

   The dispatch from Strongsville, Ohio in today’s New York Times, about Barack Obama’s efforts to rally public support for his health care plan, is standard stuff: a recounting of what the president said, an explanation of his political... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Why So Serious?

    March 16, 2010 11:28 AM

    The editorial page of The Washington Post has a well-established reputation for its hawkish stance on fiscal matters, so it was no surprise that Fred Hiatt, the page’s editor, devoted his column yesterday to the deficit. <br... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    How to Cover a Non-Story

    March 12, 2010 02:55 PM

    On Thursday afternoon, Gawker reported that Scott Brown—the Republican whose victory in a special election in Massachusetts has cost Democrats their Senate super-majority and complicated their legislative agenda—was named as a defendant in a 2000 defamation suit by... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    If Democrats do not contribute to the Greg Marx Retirement Fund, midterms will be costly

    March 12, 2010 12:37 PM

    I’m not going to attempt to dissect each of the arguments made by Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen in their Washington Post op-ed about why Democrats should abandon their push for comprehensive health care reform. But the headline... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    A Late Arrival to the Party

    March 12, 2010 11:46 AM

    Over at Politico, Mike Calderone reports that The Washington Post will be stepping up its Tea Party coverage. Local writers Amy Gardner and Sandhya Somashekhar will be moving to the National desk, where Gardner “will train her sights... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    When a Story Comes Along, Must You Whip It?

    March 10, 2010 04:14 PM

    Since it became clear sometime during the past few weeks that the fate of health care reform rests in the House, a number of journalists and other political observers have begun tracking the “whip count”—the number of House Democrats who... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Remembering Where People Get Their News

    March 10, 2010 12:15 PM

    Riffing off of Kevin Drum’s post about Terry McDermott’s cover story about Fox News in the latest CJR (which you should read!), Matthew Yglesias yesterday made the now-familiar point that the folks in... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Joe the Plumber, You’ve Got Company

    March 9, 2010 03:51 PM

    In an entirely unsurprising development, Charlie Crist is trying to capitalize on the Marco Rubio haircut story to claim the banner of conservative populism in Florida's Republican Senate primary. According to Politico, Crist told Fox's Greta... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Strategic Error

    March 8, 2010 01:46 PM

    Mark Leibovich’s front-page piece on the sufferings of David Axelrod in Sunday’s New York Times—the press apparently having decided to take a break, at least for the day, from Rahm Emanuel (Update: Or not!)—spends a lot... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    RadarOnline, Consider Yourself Warned

    March 5, 2010 02:56 PM

    At The Monkey Cage, John Sides flags the fascinating Above the Law item that details how those short-lived "John Roberts is stepping down" rumors got started, then comments: Meanwhile, in my American politics class... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Bad Diagnoses

    March 4, 2010 02:00 PM

    As my colleague Holly Yeager noted the other day, the spate of Rahm Emanuel stories that have lately been clogging up the Internet draw some startlingly different conclusions about the cartoonishly profane White House chief of staff. In... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Shhh! It’s a Secret!

    March 2, 2010 02:57 PM

    This made the rounds among journo-types yesterday, but in case you haven’t seen it, there’s an exciting development in the media world: a startup is “aimed at fixing news.” (Yes, really!) Unfortunately, it’s a secret. Hence, the handle for the... Continue reading

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