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1. Campaign Desk

   License to Kill, Part II

   April 14, 2010 11:15 AM

   On April 6, government officials let it be known that the CIA, like the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, has been authorized by the White House to capture or kill Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who is alleged... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   The Never-Ending Story

   April 13, 2010 01:52 PM

   Media critics like to wonder whether there’s a place on the Web for long-form narrative journalism. But evidence that such work can still be produced, and still find an audience, came last week from what might be an unexpected source:... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Meet the Supreme Court Front-Runners

   April 9, 2010 04:49 PM

   Now that Justice John Paul Stevens has gone and announced his upcoming retirement from the Supreme Court, we know what to expect: grinding confirmation hearings in which Republicans try to elicit a gaffe from the president’s nominee, who will do... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   License to Kill

   April 8, 2010 03:37 PM

   The recent news that the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki raised some eyebrows, and for good reason. Awlaki has been linked to the Fort Hood... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Miscast Model

   April 7, 2010 09:20 AM

   As the steady stream of proposals for how to “fix” CNN continues apace in the wake of last week’s dismal news about the network’s prime time ratings, one name has been offered repeatedly as a model to which... Continue reading

6. The Observatory

   Local Paper Leads Way on Mine Disaster Coverage

   April 6, 2010 12:24 PM

   With much of the national media’s focus turned to West Virginia today in the wake of yet another mine disaster, The Charleston Gazette is showing how strong coverage from local dailies can continue to provide value. The Gazette’s <a href=http://wvgazette.com/News/201004050545... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Coming Out as a Journalist in Iraq

   April 4, 2010 06:00 PM

   Rod Nordland has an interesting Week in Review piece in Sunday's NYT exploring the surprising results in the Iraq elections and what he calls "the unexpected sophistication of the Iraqi voter." That sophistication seems to be producing some... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Party Power

   April 2, 2010 04:19 PM

   Via Kevin Drum, Bruce Bartlett has an essay at Forbes.com today that comes to a peculiar conclusion (emphasis added): I think the evidence suggests that Hillary Clinton could have won the Democratic nomination with just a... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   ‘The Tragedy Is That Elmer Only Wanted Dramatic Roles’

   April 2, 2010 08:00 AM

   After David Mills, the former journalist and Emmy-winning screenwriter, died earlier this week, HBO distributed a lengthy obituary penned by his longtime friend and colleague David Simon. The Times-Picayune, which has been providing heavy coverage of the upcoming,... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    The Man and the Machine, On a Cover Near You

    April 1, 2010 03:47 PM

    With today being Official iPad Review Day, might as well take a moment to see how the newsweeklies are positioning themselves to bask in the reflected glow emanating from Cupertino. Courtesy of this morning’s “<a href=http://www.politico.com/playbook/... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    April 1, 2010 02:49 PM

    The folks at ProPublica have been covering the troubles with the federal government’s home loan modification program for awhile, and soliciting accounts of homeowners’ experiences with the process since last May. In a post... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Congress Not Popular in ‘08, Either

    April 1, 2010 09:42 AM

    In his column today in The Washington Post, David Broder laments the sunken state of Capitol Hill. Despite the passage of legislation of substantial importance, recent polling puts public approval of Congress below 20 percent:... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    LAT: Journalists Targeted in Honduras

    March 31, 2010 11:30 AM

    The Los Angeles Times reports on some distressing news from Central America: Nine months after a military-led coup plunged Honduras into political turmoil, human rights groups are denouncing what they see as an alarming spate of attacks on... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    A Nascent Press in North Korea?

    March 29, 2010 11:36 AM

    The front page of today’s New York Times features a fascinating story about new efforts to get information out of North Korea, perhaps the world’s most impenetrable and cloistered nation. Here's how it works: The networks are the... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Out on a Limb

    March 29, 2010 06:00 AM

    In the course of surfing the Web last week, you may have come across some polling data showing that large numbers of Republicans believe some pretty scary things about the president. The figures, provided by Harris Interactive, seem to have... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Because It’s Friday…

    March 26, 2010 01:00 PM

    At Time's "Swampland" blog, Karen Tumulty shares a classic Monty Python skit which, as she says, "is a perfect encapsulation of the United States Senate": Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    MoJo on Waste in Military Contracts

    March 25, 2010 04:02 PM

    In a story today for Mother Jones, Adam Weinstein spotlights what sounds like a deficit reduction opportunity: It was just a single contract for a single job on a single base in Iraq. The Department of Defense agreed... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    The Clergy Abuse Story Comes Back to the U.S.

    March 25, 2010 12:42 PM

    Talk about uncanny timing. Yesterday, ProPublica’s new reporter-blogger, Marian Wang, interviewed Walter Robinson, the former Boston Globe investigative journalist who led that paper’s reporting on sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese. They discussed separate sex abuse stories that... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    More on Polarization, and on Knowing Where to Look

    March 24, 2010 05:37 PM

    My Campaign Desk item earlier today took issue with Tom Friedman’s argument that gerrymandered legislative districts are driving polarization in Congress, and cited a few political science papers that questioned that assumption. Here’s another one that finds only... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    The Health Reform Vote on Cable News

    March 24, 2010 02:14 PM

    At The Monkey Cage, Patrick Egan has put together a nice chart showing viewership of the cable news networks on the night health care reform passed compared to their ratings of the prior weekend: I’m... Continue reading

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