Obama Interprets the Election

By Greg Marx   Jan 20, 2010 at 05:15 PM

Earlier this afternoon, I flagged the divergent analyses of the Massachusetts Senate election offered by John Judis and John Sides.... More

More on the Meaning of Mass.

By Greg Marx   Jan 20, 2010 at 01:25 PM

My Campaign Desk column today about why we shouldn’t lend too much credence to those analysis pieces about the meaning... More

Mixed Messages in Massachusetts

Still looking for meaning in the Brown-Coakley results

By Greg Marx   Jan 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM

Now that the counting’s over in Massachusetts and the crying’s begun for Democrats, with a conservative Republican poised to take... More

Obama the Essayist

The president’s Newsweek piece didn’t deliver much for readers

By Greg Marx   Jan 20, 2010 at 09:49 AM

In a brief note at the end of his column last Friday, Slate’s Jack Shafer asked why Barack Obama would... More

Pre-game Prognostications

The press looks for meaning in the Massachusetts Senate race

By Greg Marx   Jan 19, 2010 at 01:34 PM

There are few things political journalists enjoy more than playing up a big event, pontificating on its meaning, and speculating... More

‘The Most Inaccessible Story I Have Ever Covered’

By Greg Marx   Jan 15, 2010 at 01:13 PM

At The Huffington Post, Danny Shea writes up an interview with Bill Hemmer, who arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday to cover... More

More From the Journal on Dodd and Reform

By Greg Marx   Jan 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Last week, as various press outlets tried to gauge the meaning of Chris Dodd’s upcoming retirement for financial regulatory reform,... More

One-Way, Wrong Way

The underwear bomber didn’t actually buy a one-way ticket

By Greg Marx   Jan 15, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Earlier this week, Justin Elliott had a great piece at TPM Muckraker exploring how the notion that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,... More

Haiti’s Recent History

Was Haiti making gains before the quake hit?

By Greg Marx   Jan 14, 2010 at 09:38 AM

The popular image of Haiti can be summed up pretty succinctly: impoverished, unstable, dangerous. Against that familiar backdrop, Tuesday’s devastating... More

The Haitian News Vacuum

By Greg Marx   Jan 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM

One of the striking things about the news out of Haiti in the wake of yesterday’s devastating earthquake is that…... More

Reid Aloud

Reid’s comments weren’t really like Lott’s. Journalists shouldn’t let people pretend that they were

By Greg Marx   Jan 11, 2010 at 05:32 PM

When a political dispute breaks out, should reporters simply “report the controversy,” or instead attempt to referee and resolve it?... More

An Odd Angle on Reid’s Troubles

By Greg Marx   Jan 11, 2010 at 12:33 PM

The outdated word that's gotten the Senate major leader in such trouble will be appearing on the 2010 Census form.... More

Reform, or “Reform”?

Mixed results as press tries to gauge meaning of Dodd’s retirement

By Greg Marx   Jan 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM

This story has been updated. See note at conclusion. The upcoming retirement of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), and what it... More

What’s So Funny?

A little less levity could be good for Dana Milbank

By Greg Marx   Jan 7, 2010 at 03:24 PM

This week’s media news included the tidbit that The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, who’s been poking fun at D.C.’s political... More

Salmon on Why the NYT is Boring—and Why That’s OK

By Greg Marx   Jan 6, 2010 at 11:07 AM

At his Reuters blog, Felix Salmon agrees with "pretty much everything" in that Michael Kinsley column I wrote about yesterday,... More

Is Shorter Really Better?

Why all those quotes in newspaper stories are a good thing

By Greg Marx   Jan 5, 2010 at 03:46 PM

Michael Kinsley gets in some good shots against easy targets in his new Atlantic piece arguing that newspaper articles are... More

More Info on Politico’s Revenues

By Greg Marx   Jan 4, 2010 at 03:40 PM

My brief piece a month ago asking whether Politico was really “new media” focused more on editorial output than biz-side... More

Michael Vick, They’ve Heard of You in Iraq

By Greg Marx   Jan 4, 2010 at 01:46 PM

Over the weekend, The Washington Post featured a strong article about Iraqi anger at the dismissal of charges against five... More

Best of 2009: Greg Marx

Marx picks his top stories from 2009

By Greg Marx   Dec 30, 2009 at 03:00 PM

The Wrong Stuff This piece was a lot of fun to work on, because it involved doing some reporting to... More

Blog Posts Worth Reading

By Greg Marx   Dec 21, 2009 at 04:30 PM

Apropos of the Dana Milbank column on Joe Lieberman I discussed in this afternoon’s Campaign Desk piece, the poli-sci blogger... More