Calling BS on Official Boilerplate

By Greg Marx   Jun 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM

Adam Liptak has a story in today’s New York Times about William Macumber, an Arizona man who’s been in prison... More

How Vast Mineral Resources Could Be Bad for Afghanistan

NYT discusses perils of resource curse; AP doesn’t

By Greg Marx   Jun 14, 2010 at 04:52 PM

So, the big story of the day—that New York Times front-pager on the discovery of “nearly $1 trillion in untapped... More

Another Null Result: Obama’s Numbers Stable in Wake of Spill

By Greg Marx   Jun 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM

John Harwood’s Monday contributions to The New York Times’s “Caucus” blog provide a reliably level-headed take on the political news... More

Deficit Still Not Dominant

Some cold water on a Gallup poll that’s making the rounds

By Greg Marx   Jun 11, 2010 at 02:13 PM

My colleague Holly Yeager made a pretty good case the other day that the press is exaggerating the level of... More

Party-Switchers Losing Elections: Not Hard to Explain

By Greg Marx   Jun 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM

A piece in Politico today proffers a few explanations for Blanche Lincoln’s moderately surprising win in Arkansas’s Democratic Senate primary.... More

The End of Men in Politics? Um, No

Some perspective on the “Ladies’ Night” meme

By Greg Marx   Jun 9, 2010 at 06:00 PM

As if to unite Ryan’s irritation with sensational headlines at The Atlantic with Liz’s observation that “Ladies’ Night” seems to... More

Washington Wins! (And Loses, Too!)

The limits of the “anti-Washington” frame for interpreting the elections

By Greg Marx   Jun 9, 2010 at 01:22 PM

Continuing with the theme of insta-narratives from Tuesday’s elections, a co-worker passes on Ron Fournier’s analysis piece for The Associated... More

Pick a Narrative, any Narrative…

By Greg Marx   Jun 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM

So, the results from Super Duper Tuesday are in. What insta-narratives are our leading press outlets constructing? Let’s take a... More

More Lessons from Political Science

How understanding the horse race can keep us from obsessing over it

By Greg Marx   Jun 8, 2010 at 03:58 PM

I’m late in flagging it, but Slate’s Chris Beam, riffing of my magazine article on what political journalists can learn... More

Sure, He’s an Arrogant Opportunist, but Once You Get to Know Him…

By Greg Marx   Jun 7, 2010 at 04:00 PM

A little while back, in the course of marveling at the entertaining endorsements emanating from the Arkansas press corps, I... More

A Risky Time for Rep. Rangel?

Times, Politico differ on whether longtime pol is in peril

By Greg Marx   Jun 7, 2010 at 03:32 PM

There's a pair of dueling articles out today about the political fortunes of Charlie Rangel, one in Politico and the... More

Embrace the Wonk

A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists

By Greg Marx   Jun 1, 2010 at 08:00 AM

On January 8, Marc Ambinder, the widely-read political reporter and blogger for The Atlantic, found a copy of Game Change,... More

Hacky Punditry at the WSJ

Noonan says Dems don’t ‘love’ Obama. But they seem to like him pretty well.

By Greg Marx   May 28, 2010 at 02:52 PM

Given much of the media’s determination to see politics primarily as a stage upon which the president struts and frets,... More

California Roundup

SacBee presses Fiorina, and AP perplexes on GOP primary

By Greg Marx   May 28, 2010 at 12:50 PM

Folks who’ve been paying attention to the Republican Senate primary in California this year might have noticed something unusual: in... More

If This Election Thing Doesn’t Work Out, They Can Take This Show on the Road

By Greg Marx   May 27, 2010 at 04:18 PM

I noted this morning how the Arkansas press corps has a knack for turning out surprisingly readable endorsements. Another campaign... More

More Prepping for POTUS’s Presser

By Greg Marx   May 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Building off Liz’s post below, it’s worth noting that Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Carol E. Lee have put together their... More

Another Unusual Endorsement

Is something in the water in Arkansas?

By Greg Marx   May 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM

Newspaper endorsement editorials are notoriously snooze-inducing affairs. (Maybe that’s why we’re seeing a spate of non-endorsements this year—it’s the only... More

Big Bet, Small Stakes

Reporting on the “Contract” debate should be clear: it didn’t do much

By Greg Marx   May 26, 2010 at 08:02 AM

At his WaPo blog, Chris Cillizza has a post up that hashes over the question of whether Republicans, poised to... More

Rural Voters for Halter: The New CW in ARSen

By Greg Marx   May 25, 2010 at 03:09 PM

We’ve noted a couple times here, in the wake of the Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas, that the vote breakdown... More

Rand Paul’s Wild Ride

Did the Kentucky press fail to challenge the GOP Senate nominee?

By Greg Marx   May 25, 2010 at 08:37 AM

Over at his new blog, Josh Green has been posting lately on Rand Paul’s victory in Kentucky’s Republican primary for... More