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Campaign Desk
Q & A: The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill
August 17, 2009 10:11 AMOne of the interesting developments stemming from the growth of Web news and the splintering of traditional audiences has been the way the Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper, has cultivated a readership in the United States. As the Guardian’s bureau... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Polling the Stimulus
August 17, 2009 10:09 AMAs signs of economic improvement overseas continue to crop up—most recently, according to The New York Times, in Japan—The Washington Post reports today that many economists are lowering expectations about a recovery in the U.S. Traditionally,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Overemphasizing Obama
August 14, 2009 01:22 PMDan Froomkin’s first item at The Huffington Post, which appeared on Monday, has drawn some mild criticism from an unlikely source: the liberal blogosphere. And in this case, Froomkin’s critics have the better of the argument. Froomkin opens... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Naming and Shaming at the NYT
August 14, 2009 10:46 AMBrendan Nyhan, whose work on the difficulty of correcting political misinformation formed the basis of my story on that subject, congratulates The New York Times for its article today on the origin of the... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: An Upturn Overseas
August 14, 2009 10:10 AMThe lead economic story in the American press today is about Europe. As The Washington Post reports, new data from the Continent shows that Germany and France are unexpectedly “the first major industrialized nations to officially pull out... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Wrong Stuff
August 14, 2009 08:20 AMPushing back against political misinformation has lately become a growth industry. The Obama administration is trying to counter false claims that proposed health care reforms will lead to government-sponsored euthanasia, both via appeals from the president... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Newsweek and Rove
August 13, 2009 11:31 AMNewsweek’s Michael Isikoff doesn’t pull any punches in his story on Karl Rove’s role in the 2006 firing of numerous U.S. attorneys, including New Mexico's David Iglesias, whom Isikoff interviewed. Still, it seems a little odd that... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: A More Upbeat Outlook from the Fed
August 13, 2009 10:28 AMThere’s been a lot of chatter lately about the recession being over or nearly so, and now the Federal Reserve has joined the party, reports The New York Times. In a statement yesterday, the Fed concluded that “economic... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Limits of “The Long View”
August 12, 2009 02:28 PMThe strength of Rod Nordland’s lead story in today’s New York Times about the current state of the sectarian divide in Iraq is that it takes a big picture, broad-brush view of the situation. Unfortunately, that’s also... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Schools and the Stimulus
August 12, 2009 10:16 AMThe economic news of the morning, reported both by the Associated Press and Bloomberg, is that the U.S. trade deficit widened in June as exports rose, but imports rose even faster. The news is another sign... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
All About Afghanistan
August 12, 2009 09:05 AMThe Forgotten War has been remembered lately. After being relegated to the back pages for the better part of a few years, Afghanistan has lately become a regular topic in the nation’s leading papers, spurred on by an upcoming presidential... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Q & A, Part Two: Spencer Ackerman
August 11, 2009 10:27 AMThis is the second part of a two-part interview with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman. The first part is here. This is an edited transcript. Greg Marx: Let’s get away from the media for a sec and talk about... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Productivity Up; Will Jobs Follow?
August 11, 2009 10:07 AMThe Washington Post carries an AP story this morning reporting that productivity rose by an annual rate of more than 6 percent during the second quarter, while labor costs plummeted. As the story notes, productivity, or output per... Continue reading
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The Kicker
On the Etymology of ‘Dogwasher’
August 10, 2009 04:29 PMElizabeth Rubin’s long, detailed New York Times Magazine article about Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, mentions in passing that educated Afghanis who leave the country and later return are known as “dogwashers.” But Rubin doesn’t explain the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
O’Reilly ❤s Obama, but Not his Parents
August 10, 2009 02:50 PMBased on the evidence of his peculiar backhanded mash note to the president, published yesterday in Parade, it seems that Bill O’Reilly wants readers to understand two things. First, despite his reputation as one of cable’s leading... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Putting the Senate Under Scrutiny
August 10, 2009 01:00 PMOver the weekend, Alec MacGillis of The Washington Post had an excellent article on the peculiar nature of the U.S. Senate, and the consequences of its dramatic overrepresentation of low-population states on policy-making. Readers should really take a look at... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Q & A: Spencer Ackerman
August 10, 2009 11:15 AMThe rise of Web-based journalism has brought forth an explosion of bright, young, often left-leaning reporters and bloggers. But at a time when America is engaged in two wars and faces daunting decisions regarding its role in the world, much... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Hope for Jobs, After All?
August 10, 2009 10:18 AMThere’s been a lot of talk lately about the possibility of a “jobless recovery,” but The Wall Street Journal’s Justin Lahart has a story out today that takes a sunnier perspective on the employment forecast. The flip side... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Better than Expected
August 7, 2009 10:05 AMAll the major outlets, including The Washington Post, report the news that “only” 247,000 jobs were lost in July, with the unemployment rate staying essentially flat at 9.4 percent. That’s not great, but it’s better than expected. New... Continue reading
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The Kicker
It’s Meant to be Seabiscuit, After All
August 6, 2009 02:10 PMOver at Politico, Michael Calderone has a post up noting that Washington Post TV critic Lisa de Moraes’s piece on Paula Abdul’s departure from “American Idol” refers to the show’s host, Ryan Seacrest, as “Seabiscuit.”... Continue reading
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