Schooling the President

In ‘91, Bush spoke, students listened, the Post snarked

By Greg Marx   Sep 9, 2009 at 04:56 PM

When conservative foot-soldiers began to kick up a storm last week about President Barack Obama’s plans to deliver a manipulative,... More

What a Speech Can’t Do

The president thinks he can persuade people. He’s probably wrong.

By Greg Marx   Sep 9, 2009 at 01:58 PM

Tonight, if a recent Pew Research Center poll is to be believed, a massive television audience will tune in to... More

Stuck with the Senate

Why it makes sense for Obama to focus on the upper house

By Greg Marx   Sep 8, 2009 at 02:15 PM

American health care system is in need of reform. Does President Barack Obama’s job consist of finding a way to... More

The People Have Spoken

Can presidents sway public opinion on divisive domestic issues?

By Greg Marx   Aug 31, 2009 at 07:00 AM

A few weeks ago, in the course of arguing that the press was overemphasizing the role President Barack Obama could... More

BBC Reports on a Row in Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Aug 28, 2009 at 03:51 PM

So it seems the Obama administration has some concerns about the election in Afghanistan. From the BBC*: The US special... More

A Model for Sustainable Journalism, Discovered

By Greg Marx   Aug 28, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Matthew Yglesias is moved by one of those "only-in-Japan" stories to ponder the future of journalism: I also have the... More

TNR Takes a Walk Down ‘The Avenue’

By Greg Marx   Aug 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM

To readers who follow the idiosyncracies of the political journalism world, the most notable feature of the The New Republic’s... More

Stars and Stripes: Military Profiling Reporters

By Greg Marx   Aug 27, 2009 at 03:41 PM

At The Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman flags a pair of stories from Stars and Stripes reporting that journalists who seek... More

A Solid Piece on Afghan Politics

Times shines a light on Karzai’s circle

By Greg Marx   Aug 27, 2009 at 02:03 PM

We’ve been asking recently for more reporting that contextualizes the turbulent political situation in Afghanistan, and explores what that situation... More

The Times Magazine Drops its 13,000-Word Story

By Greg Marx   Aug 27, 2009 at 01:43 PM

When New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati, in the course of pondering the future of long-form journalism in a... More

Election? What Election?

Debate on Afghanistan should reflect their politics, too

By Greg Marx   Aug 27, 2009 at 06:30 AM

Scott Wilson and Joshua Partlow had a front-page story in The Washington Post yesterday that explored the “political test” President... More

The Right Way to Say Goodbye

The conservative blogosphere remembers Ted Kennedy

By Greg Marx   Aug 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM

As obituaries published today by major newspapers make clear, Edward Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts who died of brain... More

The Waiting Game

No election results in Afghanistan, but plenty of stories

By Greg Marx   Aug 26, 2009 at 09:06 AM

After a fair bit of media buildup, the presidential election in Afghanistan passed fairly quietly last week. Violence was lower... More

Some Rationality on Medical Rationing

Times takes on health care fears again

By Greg Marx   Aug 25, 2009 at 01:22 PM

Last Friday, The New York Times fronted a feature by Kevin Sack about seniors down south who are skeptical about... More

The NYT’s Too-Polite Headlines

By Greg Marx   Aug 25, 2009 at 09:39 AM

What’s up with the milquetoast headline writers at The New York Times? Two weeks ago, when reporters Jim Rutenberg and... More

Drowning in the Days

New Post feature tracks Obama’s every move

By Greg Marx   Aug 25, 2009 at 09:30 AM

The political junkie’s pastime of obsessively following Barack Obama’s movements took a more quantitative turn this week, as The Washington... More

If They Can’t Prove It, We Shouldn’t Say It

Stenography does not count as reporting

By Greg Marx   Aug 24, 2009 at 03:53 PM

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has an interesting, if dispiriting, column out today in which he acknowledges some sobering... More

More Details on Blackwater’s Role

By Greg Marx   Aug 21, 2009 at 07:47 PM

Should’ve flagged this much earlier: James Risen and Mark Mazzetti’s front-page story in today’s New York Times, chock-full of juicy... More

Richard Florida’s “Stimulus Map”

By Greg Marx   Aug 21, 2009 at 04:46 PM

Atlantic correspondent Richard Florida put up a post yesterday, drawing on data collected and initially mapped by ProPublica, that purports... More

Old News

Times piece fails to make sense of seniors’ health reform fears

By Greg Marx   Aug 21, 2009 at 01:06 PM

Robert Pear’s article in today’s New York Times appears under an intriguing, if typically Times-ian, headline: “A Basis Is Seen... More