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1. Campaign Desk

   The Uighur Picture

   July 7, 2009 02:45 PM

   The latest unrest in China has turned the world’s attention (well, that portion of the world not watching Michael Jackson’s memorial service) to Urumqi, a heretofore obscure city in western Xinjiang province. To get a better sense of... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   The Economy Today: Egg Donors and Food Stamps

   July 7, 2009 10:59 AM

   Stories about the slow distribution of stimulus funds are a dime a dozen these days, but The Wall Street Journal today reports on one source of federal money that is being quickly infused into the economy: a boost... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Inside Atlantic Media’s “Unique, Content-Rich” Dinner Events

   July 6, 2009 05:40 PM

   Zachary Roth of TPM Muckraker advances the ball on the WaPo “salon” story today, noting that Atlantic Media has been hosting similar private, off-the-record events for some time. Roth’s got the goods in the form of a <a... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Where’d the Money Go?

   July 6, 2009 03:12 PM

   The New York Times today offers a dispatch on the health care debate from Maine, home of an endangered species: moderate Republican senators. The piece offers a solid look at the debate playing out among different constituencies to... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Pew Poll: Palin Polarizes Public

   July 6, 2009 01:27 PM

   A big part of Sarah Palin’s appeal has always been that she had the right enemies. Palin’s resentment of sneering East Coast elites, one of the subtexts of her bizarre resignation speech last Friday, has been one of her defining... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   The Economy Today: Giving up the Ghostboxes

   July 6, 2009 10:51 AM

   With the search still underway for concrete signs of widespread economic recovery, The New York Times leads today with reason for pessimism: the unprecedented volatility of oil prices, which dropped from a $145 per barrel high to $33... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   More PitneyGate Fallout?

   July 2, 2009 03:55 PM

   We may, thankfully, be putting Pitneygate behind us. But reading through press coverage of President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care reform yesterday, one could be forgiven for thinking that the episode is still weighing on the minds of... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   More on WaPo Salon Deal

   July 2, 2009 02:59 PM

   Andy Alexander, ombudsman for the Post, has now weighed in on the “salon” scandal. His post provides some news about how the flier came to be distributed: The flier came out of the office Charles Pelton, who joined The... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Brauchli On WaPo Salons

   July 2, 2009 12:49 PM

   In the wake of Mike Allen’s story in Politico this morning about The Washington Post advertising “salons” at which deep-pocketed sponsors could obtain access to administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own editorial staff–-and WaPo Executive Editor... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    The Economy Today: School’s Out

    July 2, 2009 10:40 AM

    The New York Times leads its print edition with a dispatch about the latest victim of the recession: summer school. The federal government has been urging local school districts to use some of the $100 billion in education funding... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    Good News, For a Change

    July 1, 2009 05:57 PM

    With the near-daily drip of bleak news about the journalism world (today’s edition: Gannett reportedly plans to cut at least 1,000 jobs), we could all use some reason for optimism. And, fortunately, some has arrived: A consortium of... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Normalizing the Filibuster

    July 1, 2009 04:22 PM

    Yesterday, the Minnesota Supreme Court finally made official what had for months seemed a foregone conclusion: Al Franken will be the state’s next senator. The reason this matters outside of Minnesota, of course, is that Franken’s win, following on the... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    The Economy Today: Happy New (Fiscal) Year

    July 1, 2009 12:04 PM

    The arrival of July brings the start of the fiscal year and a statutory deadline for new budgets in many states. USA Today rounds up action from around the country and notes New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin were... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Mad Men

    March 18, 2009 03:21 PM

    Everybody’s angry over the AIG bonus scandal. You’re angry, I’m angry, Congress is angry. Inuit fishermen who have no contact with the rest of North America are angry. But what, you might wonder, are the practical political consequences of... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    The Chas Freeman Frenzy

    March 13, 2009 11:41 AM

    Over the past few weeks, the American foreign policy community worked itself into something resembling a frenzy over the appointment of Charles W. “Chas” Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council, an advisory body whose chief responsibility is to oversee... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    A War on “Class Warfare”

    March 4, 2009 02:25 PM

    There’s no denying that President Barack Obama’s proposed 2010 budget represents a major new policy agenda, and that it charts an aggressively, and surprisingly, liberal direction. And Obama followed up last week’s announcement of the spending plan by raising the... Continue reading

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