The Polarization Express

You can’t blame legislative gridlock on polarization alone

By Greg Marx   Dec 21, 2009 at 03:12 PM

Dana Milbank had an interesting column over the weekend countering the conventional wisdom on Joe Lieberman: rather than undergoing some... More

Putting the ‘green’ in ‘Green Lantern thinking’

By Greg Marx   Dec 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM

I think Brendan Nyhan and John Sides, while right about the underlying argument, go a bit too far in faulting... More

Today in Health Care Reform Punditry

By Greg Marx   Dec 18, 2009 at 09:39 AM

David Brooks opposes the Senate health bill. Paul Krugman supports it. Meanwhile, liberals are in revolt over the idea that... More

What’s Behind the Drop in Obama’s Approval Ratings?

By Greg Marx   Dec 17, 2009 at 06:00 PM

As Barack Obama’s approval ratings have declined over the last few months, the slide has often been explained as a... More

Great Detail from the Journal on Congressional Travel

By Greg Marx   Dec 16, 2009 at 04:37 PM

About a week and a half ago, The New York Times ran a story about congressional junkets that are paid... More

Whose ‘Sexting’ Are We Really Worried About?

By Greg Marx   Dec 16, 2009 at 12:30 PM

According to a study on “Teens and Sexting” released Tuesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Center, the practice—which... More

Nobody ‘Needs’ a Civil War

Friedman’s unnerving model for the conflict in the Muslim world

By Greg Marx   Dec 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has a well-established record of believing that forceful action (read: violent conflict) is a... More

Say it Ain’t So, Joe

Online outlets lead coverage of Joe Lieberman’s health reform reversal

By Greg Marx   Dec 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM

It became cliché long ago to note how the online political discourse can take on a life of its own,... More

Post Examines Unkept Promises in Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Dec 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM

The Washington Post’s Griff Witte has turned in some strong reporting from the Af-Pak region over the past week, including... More

Stimulus was not ‘Mostly an Infrastructure Spending Bill’

By Greg Marx   Dec 11, 2009 at 04:26 PM

A story in today's Politico seeking to explain why John McCain has been so critical of Barack Obama since the... More

On Covering the Newspaper Business

By Greg Marx   Dec 10, 2009 at 05:20 PM

One theme touched on in my interview with E&P’s Greg Mitchell today is, with the upcoming closure of that publication,... More

Q & A: Editor & Publisher’s Greg Mitchell

E&P’s editor-in-chief on the magazine’s sudden demise

By Greg Marx   Dec 10, 2009 at 01:58 PM

The media industry received an unpleasant bit of news on Thursday: the magazine Editor & Publisher, which has covered the... More

LAT Delivers Reporting from Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Dec 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM

A footnote to my piece this morning lamenting the general lack of reporting out of Afghanistan over the last couple... More

Generally Speaking

Official pronouncements dominate recent coverage of Afghan war

By Greg Marx   Dec 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM

Take a quick survey of leading news sites over the last few days, and it’s easy to conclude that President... More

Sex Isn’t the Story

The real controversy behind the Baucus-Hanes affair

By Greg Marx   Dec 8, 2009 at 02:41 PM

“The scandal isn’t what’s illegal; it’s what’s legal.” That line, usually attributed to Michael Kinsley, has been repeated so often... More

Is Politico Really ‘New Media’?

Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not old-fashioned

By Greg Marx   Dec 7, 2009 at 04:23 PM

The official announcement today that Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board went out of... More

Politico Takes On the ‘Tick-Tocks’

By Greg Marx   Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM

Mike Allen and Alexander Burns had an interesting piece at Politico yesterday on the art of the “tick-tock”—that staple of... More

West Point Reaction Roundup

Summarizing reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan speech

By Greg Marx   Dec 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM

A new war strategy consists of more than a speech, of course. But President Obama’s address to cadets at West... More

Spock Crock

AP piece shows what happens when a narrative gets ahead of a story

By Greg Marx   Dec 1, 2009 at 02:03 PM

Yesterday’s narrative-perpetuating Politico item on stories the president doesn’t want told seems to be, to borrow a phrase, “driving the... More

An Inside Look at Huckabee and Clemency

By Greg Marx   Dec 1, 2009 at 02:03 PM

The murder of four Seattle-area police officers has, beyond the immediate tragedy, turned in to a major political headache for... More