Joe the Plumber, You’ve Got Company

By Greg Marx   Mar 9, 2010 at 03:51 PM

In an entirely unsurprising development, Charlie Crist is trying to capitalize on the Marco Rubio haircut story to claim the... More

Strategic Error

Times Axelrod profile gets mixed up on messaging

By Greg Marx   Mar 8, 2010 at 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... More

RadarOnline, Consider Yourself Warned

By Greg Marx   Mar 5, 2010 at 02:56 PM

At The Monkey Cage, John Sides flags the fascinating Above the Law item that details how those short-lived "John Roberts... More

Bad Diagnoses

The recent ‘Rahm’ stories offer plenty of prescriptions. Are we sure Obama is sick?

By Greg Marx   Mar 4, 2010 at 02:00 PM

As my colleague Holly Yeager noted the other day, the spate of Rahm Emanuel stories that have lately been clogging... More

Shhh! It’s a Secret!

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 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... More

A Political Scientist Encounters Quote Bubble Journalism

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 01:47 PM

Henry Farrell, a professor of political science at George Washington University and a blogger at both Crooked Timber and The... More

Differing Takes on Reconciliation

Finding the soundbites, and missing the meaning, in Kent Conrad’s remarks

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Stenography-as-reporting tends to get a bad name because it allows politicians to say false or misleading things without being held... More

Carlson Calling

Tucker Carlson talks about his new online enterprise

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson’s already long and varied journalistic résumé added a new entry: Web impresario. In January, the... More

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Rubio’s haircut isn’t—or shouldn’t be—the story

By Greg Marx   Feb 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM

On his way to a truly spectacular and ignominious flame-out, John Edwards seems to have left at least one political... More

Competing Takes on Today’s Summit

By Greg Marx   Feb 25, 2010 at 02:18 PM

Coverage of the morning session of today's big health care summit focuses, unsurprisingly, on how the assembled political worthies are... More

Marco Rubio and the Republican Elite

Wielding national political power without elite support is a pipe dream

By Greg Marx   Feb 19, 2010 at 01:06 PM

Marco Rubio seems to be the breakout star of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the yearly gathering of right-wing... More

More on Politics and the Economy

By Greg Marx   Feb 18, 2010 at 01:11 PM

A short follow-up to my “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid” piece from earlier this week: John Sides, whose post on... More

Q & A: David Barstow

The New York Times reporter talks about the Tea Party movement

By Greg Marx   Feb 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM

As the conservative Tea Party movement has picked up steam over the past year, leading national media outlets—many of which... More

Sounding the Alarm, or Just Sounding Off?

Playing politics with national security may not be a great idea, after all

By Greg Marx   Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13 AM

In his capacity as editor of The Washington Post’s editorial page, Fred Hiatt takes a lot of criticism—some of it... More

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

More indications that the economy drives political outcomes

By Greg Marx   Feb 15, 2010 at 01:55 PM

One of the side effects of what’s been dubbed the “the permanent campaign” is a proliferation of reporting on public... More

A Plan for ‘Best Practices’ on National Security Reporting

By Greg Marx   Feb 12, 2010 at 03:06 PM

The stories about Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Barton Gellman’s departure from The Washington Post have generally emphasized his new job as... More

U.S. Military Releases Freelance Photographer in Iraq

By Greg Marx   Feb 11, 2010 at 01:33 PM

A brief item in the January/February print edition of CJR noted that 2009 marked the sixth consecutive year in which... More

Palin’s Populist Appeal Still Mostly Missing in Polls

By Greg Marx   Feb 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM

Nothing draws attention on the Internet like a column about Sarah Palin, so David Broder’s latest—arguing that the former Alaska... More

Unforced Error at Salon

“O’Keefe’s race problem” story goes astray on key detail

By Greg Marx   Feb 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM

It’s not often that, barely a week after sparking a mini media circus by being arrested on federal property in... More

O’Keefe, Etc.

A closer look at a couple more issues surrounding the conservative videographer

By Greg Marx   Feb 5, 2010 at 04:56 PM

James O’Keefe is a hell of a problem for the press. Whatever else he is, O’Keefe is an instigator par... More