Duck Feeding: The Key to Better Health Care

By Greg Marx   Aug 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM

The New York Times’s Kevin Sack has a front-page story today on skittishness over health care reform among senior citizens... More

Getting Away from “Off the Record”

The Sunshine Initiative’s letter is a good first step

By Greg Marx   Aug 21, 2009 at 09:00 AM

Earlier this week, a coalition of news organizations led by the Sunshine in Government Initiative sent a letter to hundreds... More

Diving Deep into Blackwater

Press pushes ahead on the CIA assassination story

By Greg Marx   Aug 20, 2009 at 12:21 PM

So it turns out there was more to that story about the secret CIA assassination program that made waves five... More

Conflict is Content; Consensus Isn’t

When reporting on the public option, the press takes its cues from political actors

By Greg Marx   Aug 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM

Two months ago, the idea that a news cycle would be dominated by the distinction between a “public option” and... More

The Limits of the ‘It’s Obama’s Fault’ Narrative

Bush didn’t steamroll Congress, either

By Greg Marx   Aug 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Kevin Drum had an interesting post yesterday building off the observation that at the recently-concluded Netroots Nation, enthusiasm was markedly... More

Q & A: The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill

The UK paper’s Washington bureau chief on politics, transparency, and the journalistic power of soccer

By Greg Marx   Aug 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM

One of the interesting developments stemming from the growth of Web news and the splintering of traditional audiences has been... More

The Economy Today: Polling the Stimulus

A roundup of national and regional economic headlines

By Greg Marx   Aug 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM

As signs of economic improvement overseas continue to crop up—most recently, according to The New York Times, in Japan—The Washington... More

Overemphasizing Obama

The limits of what health care can tell us about the president

By Greg Marx   Aug 14, 2009 at 01:22 PM

Dan Froomkin’s first item at The Huffington Post, which appeared on Monday, has drawn some mild criticism from an unlikely... More

Naming and Shaming at the NYT

By Greg Marx   Aug 14, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Brendan Nyhan, whose work on the difficulty of correcting political misinformation formed the basis of my story on that subject,... More

The Economy Today: An Upturn Overseas

Economic news from Arizona, Florida, North Dakota, and elsewhere

By Greg Marx   Aug 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM

The lead economic story in the American press today is about Europe. As The Washington Post reports, new data from... More

The Wrong Stuff

What we don’t know about how to correct misinformation

By Greg Marx   Aug 14, 2009 at 08:20 AM

Pushing back against political misinformation has lately become a growth industry. The Obama administration is trying to counter false claims... More

Newsweek and Rove

By Greg Marx   Aug 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM

Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff doesn’t pull any punches in his story on Karl Rove’s role in the 2006 firing of numerous... More

The Economy Today: A More Upbeat Outlook from the Fed

A roundup of national and regional economic headlines

By Greg Marx   Aug 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the recession being over or nearly so, and now the Federal Reserve... More

The Limits of “The Long View”

Times reaches too far to explain restraint of Iraqi Shiites

By Greg Marx   Aug 12, 2009 at 02:28 PM

The strength of Rod Nordland’s lead story in today’s New York Times about the current state of the sectarian divide... More

The Economy Today: Schools and the Stimulus

A roundup of national and regional economic headlines

By Greg Marx   Aug 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM

The economic news of the morning, reported both by the Associated Press and Bloomberg, is that the U.S. trade deficit... More

All About Afghanistan

The press rediscovers the other war in a big way

By Greg Marx   Aug 12, 2009 at 09:05 AM

The Forgotten War has been remembered lately. After being relegated to the back pages for the better part of a... More

Q & A, Part Two: Spencer Ackerman

Part two of CJR’s interview with the national security reporter

By Greg Marx   Aug 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM

This is the second part of a two-part interview with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman. The first part is here.... More

The Economy Today: Productivity Up; Will Jobs Follow?

A roundup of national and regional economic headlines

By Greg Marx   Aug 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM

The Washington Post carries an AP story this morning reporting that productivity rose by an annual rate of more than... More

On the Etymology of ‘Dogwasher’

By Greg Marx   Aug 10, 2009 at 04:29 PM

Elizabeth Rubin’s long, detailed New York Times Magazine article about Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, mentions in passing that... More

O’Reilly ❤s Obama, but Not his Parents

By Greg Marx   Aug 10, 2009 at 02:50 PM

Based on the evidence of his peculiar backhanded mash note to the president, published yesterday in Parade, it seems that... More