Post Takes a Look at the ‘Texas Miracle’

By Greg Marx   Aug 22, 2011 at 01:41 PM

In The Washington Post over the weekend, Michael Fletcher did what CJR urged reporters to do last week: he noted... More

Unsettling Insights from Perry’s Eggheads

The Texas governor gets scientific on how to work the media

By Greg Marx   Aug 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM

At the New York Times site today, David Leonhardt has a very interesting Q-and-A with Sasha Issenberg, the former Boston... More

HuffPost and Patch Look for Primary Power Brokers

New initiative to measure GOP conversation, outside the Beltway

By Greg Marx   Aug 18, 2011 at 04:36 PM

Early last month, CJR published an interview with Hans Noel, a Georgetown University political scientist and co-author of The Party... More

A State-Backed Miracle

As Perry pushes Texas boom, the press shouldn’t forget one reason behind it

By Greg Marx   Aug 17, 2011 at 10:04 AM

With Rick Perry now officially in the presidential race, there’s a spate of coverage and commentary about how much credit... More

Debunking the Myth of an Independent President

LA Times op-ed spotlights partisanship’s place

By Greg Marx   Aug 11, 2011 at 04:03 PM

Because it’s only a matter of time before another pundit delivers a half-baked column fantasizing about an independent presidential candidate,... More

Would a Populist Washington Post Be Popular?

Ombudsman’s stirring plan relies on readers who may not be there.

By Greg Marx   Aug 9, 2011 at 01:39 PM

In his latest column, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton offers a paradigmatic version of the earnest media critic’s exhortation. Being... More

Obama’s Wrong on Independents

And reporters shouldn’t be saying he’s right

By Greg Marx   Aug 4, 2011 at 02:44 PM

I found a fair bit to like in Politico’s latest conversation-driver, a long article by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen... More

The NY Times’s New Top Editor in D.C.

A conversation with incoming Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt

By Greg Marx   Aug 3, 2011 at 09:44 AM

With Jill Abramson about to take the reins as executive editor of The New York Times, one of the paper’s... More

The Deficit Disconnect

The long-run deficit problem is a health care problem. Why doesn’t the debate reflect that?

By Greg Marx   Aug 1, 2011 at 03:20 PM

With a debt ceiling agreement apparently at hand, Matthew Yglesias makes an important point that I haven’t seen in the... More

A President Independent of Whom, Exactly?

L.A. Times sizes up a nonpartisan nonprofit’s opaque funding

By Greg Marx   Jul 28, 2011 at 05:45 PM

So, speaking of Americans Elect, the new, webby way to pick a president that has Tom Friedman’s radical centrist heart... More

A Leak about those ‘Despicable’ Leaks

By Greg Marx   Jul 28, 2011 at 03:57 PM

At Politico, Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan have a story this afternoon about the frantic maneuverings by the House GOP... More

Tom Friedman: Still Wrong

More critics skewer the columnist’s pining for the ‘center’

By Greg Marx   Jul 28, 2011 at 02:16 PM

In my Campaign Desk item on Monday, I expressed a fervent hope that more political writers would take on the... More

Tom Friedman’s ‘Radical’ Wrongness

Critics debunk—again—the NYT columnist’s ‘radical center’ dream

By Greg Marx   Jul 25, 2011 at 03:37 PM

Over the weekend, The New York Times op-ed page published one of Tom Friedman’s periodic columns about the need for... More

The Idiot Yankee’s Guide to Rick Perry

By Greg Marx   Jul 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM

With Texas Gov. Rick Perry seemingly all but certain to enter the Republican presidential sweepstakes—the latest talk is of an... More

Not Politics as Usual

Congressional norms are breaking down—and day-to-day political reporting should acknowledge that fact

By Greg Marx   Jul 21, 2011 at 03:00 PM

Politico has a story this morning about the likely-doomed nomination of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection... More

Left, Right, and Off Target

PEJ report’s misguided focus on “ideology” in nonprofit journalism

By Greg Marx   Jul 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM

A new report on non-profit news startups from the Project for Excellence in Journalism has been attracting a little bit... More

A Voice for the Unemployed

Yahoo!’s haunting look at the lives of the long-term jobless

By Greg Marx   Jul 15, 2011 at 11:48 AM

Had your fill of reading about who stormed out on whom, and who called whom “childish,” in the umpteenth round... More

New Jersey Politics: Not So Much Like National Politics

By Greg Marx   Jul 11, 2011 at 05:00 PM

A word to national political reporters looking to find broader meaning in Chris Christie’s dealings with New Jersey Democrats, or... More

The Personal and the Political

The debt-ceiling deadlock isn’t about Obama and Boehner’s relationship

By Greg Marx   Jul 11, 2011 at 03:19 PM

As the debt ceiling standoff drags on and on, imperiling America’s creditworthiness and pushing other issues off the agenda, it’s... More

An #askObama Takeaway: Public has questions about housing, education policy

Will the White House press corps get the message?

By Greg Marx   Jul 7, 2011 at 04:11 PM

In the wake of yesterday’s “Twitter townhall,” The Boston Globe put together an interesting infographic comparing Twitter users’ #askObama questions... More