Atlantic launches opinion aggregator site

By Greg Marx   Sep 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM

Last night, The Atlantic officially launched its new aggregator site of opinion and analysis, The Atlantic Wire. You can see... More

Expert Takes on Overseas Elections

By Greg Marx   Sep 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM

A promising development for global news junkies: the group political science blog The Monkey Cage is seeking poli-sci posts on... More

Another Case for Bipartisanship

By Greg Marx   Sep 16, 2009 at 09:56 AM

At his Mother Jones blog, Kevin Drum makes an interesting case that bipartisanship is important, after all. On the most... More

Brauchli: “Too Many People Call Our Newsroom”

By Greg Marx   Sep 15, 2009 at 07:08 PM

Howie Kurtz hasn’t had to range far afield for story subjects the last couple months. Today, he delivered an in-depth... More

More Thoughts on the Big Speech

By Greg Marx   Sep 15, 2009 at 03:28 PM

Prompted by Nate Silver’s latest thoughts on this topic, Ezra Klein asks, “Do Speeches Work?” His conclusion: That said, the... More

Cheech and Chong Aren’t Dead Yet

Not everyone in the media is ready to take drug reform seriously

By Greg Marx   Sep 15, 2009 at 01:20 PM

David Downs presents a lot of support today for the proposition that the media is, at long last, adopting a... More

Bipartisanship Has Sailed

Political consensus is not an unalloyed good

By Greg Marx   Sep 15, 2009 at 10:44 AM

In Politico yesterday, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen had a good, interesting piece about why, in their words, “bipartisanship gets... More

Government Claims That Should Perhaps Not Be Believed

By Greg Marx   Sep 15, 2009 at 09:50 AM

Further evidence, not that it was needed, of the weakness of Pakistan’s government institutions: the distinctly subpar quality of its... More

And Just Your Best Guess—Is the Earth Round? Or Is It Flat?

By Greg Marx   Sep 14, 2009 at 06:05 PM

The latest CNN/Opinion Reseach Corporation poll (PDF) includes the following question: And just your best guess -- based on what... More

Measuring a Speech’s Success

In speech reax stories, competing theories of politics

By Greg Marx   Sep 14, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Barack Obama’s big health care speech last week has, in general, been deemed a success by the media and the... More

Other Angles of the Health Care Story

By Greg Marx   Sep 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM

For readers tracking the legislative negotiations on health care reform, today’s New York Times has two interesting stories on overlooked... More

So Much for Ignoring Joe Wilson

By Greg Marx   Sep 11, 2009 at 03:33 PM

Per Kevin Drum, it seems that The Washington Post, at least, has not heeded Megan's plea. Drum's comparison of the... More

Examples of “Crankery” That Really Weren’t

By Greg Marx   Sep 11, 2009 at 01:40 PM

In continuing Joe Wilson coverage, Andie Collier has a story at Politico about the increasing prominence of Republican “cranks.” The... More

Playing the Margins

Politicians have good reason to avoid the details. Journalists don’t.

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 04:42 PM

Ezra Klein’s live chat with readers today included this interesting exchange: Washington, D.C.: I found it interesting that the subsidies,... More

So is the “You Lie!” Guy a Liar?

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 03:56 PM

As you might have heard, there was a little interruption during the president’s address last night. But was Rep. Joe... More

More About Munadi

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 02:09 PM

Over at The New Yorker’s site, George Packer has published some powerful thoughts about the death of Sultan Munadi. An... More

What Does “Urban Modern” Editing Look Like?

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 01:40 PM

The big news in New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati’s pre-Labor Day Q&A with readers was the jaw-dropping price... More

Reshuffling the Senate

Strong Politico piece takes stock of Senate moves

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM

I was somewhat critical of a David Rogers article earlier this week, but his Politico piece today on the shuffling... More

Sultan Munadi, RIP

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 10:42 AM

A week before he was killed during a commando raid that freed his colleague, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell,... More

Barack Obama, Media Critic

On Obama’s remarks at the Cronkite memorial service

By Greg Marx   Sep 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM

Maybe, if this whole presidency thing doesn’t work out, Barack Obama can land a Nieman fellowship. As you’ve probably heard,... More