Table for Two?

Taking a look at the remaining two-paper towns

By Jane Kim   Mar 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM

On Tuesday morning, Seattle became a one-newspaper town, as the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its last edition and became a... More

The Political Capital of “Public Anger”

Rhetorical cliffhangers at The New York Times

By Jane Kim   Mar 16, 2009 at 04:08 PM

An article in The New York Times today takes a look at the “populist backlash” that is threatening to explode... More

So, Are Ya?

NYT foregoes nuance and asks the president, “Are you a socialist?”

By Jane Kim   Mar 9, 2009 at 04:15 PM

The Gray Lady could have asked the socialism question differently. On Friday afternoon, The New York Times conducted an exclusive... More

Assessing Jindal

Critics look past the delivery and slam the speech’s substance

By Jane Kim   Feb 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Bobby Jindal, the thirty-seven-year-old governor of Louisiana, delivered the Republican response to Pres. Obama's faux-state-of-the-union address last night. It was... More

Laid Off and Loving It?

The Globe’s facile recessionary trend spotting

By Jane Kim   Feb 23, 2009 at 03:35 PM

The Boston Globe today fronts an article that demonstrates the flaws of imposing a facile story idea on a complicated... More

The Wise and the Reckless

On the housing plan and the “unscrupulous or irresponsible”

By Jane Kim   Feb 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM

In Phoenix Wednesday, President Obama introduced the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan as an effort that would neither “rescue the... More

87 Suburbs In Search of a City

By Jane Kim   Feb 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM

OK, so that's just what Dorothy Parker said about Los Angeles, and it was 72, not 87. But it does... More

Victorie, Victoria, Victor

On calling the passage of the stimulus bill Obama’s “victory”

By Jane Kim   Feb 18, 2009 at 04:22 PM

New York Times columnist Frank Rich’s thoughts turned to victory this weekend: “The stimulus victory showed that even as president... More

The Missing Refrigerator

A writer steps up the race dialogue

By Jane Kim   Feb 11, 2009 at 07:00 AM

Notes from No Man’s Land By Eula Biss | Graywolf Press | 244 pages, $15 "The day I moved into... More

Bipartisan Talk

WaPo discusses the word at length

By Jane Kim   Feb 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Monday’s Washington Post had an oddly long take on “bipartisanship” gracing its front page. Is bipartisanship about the act of... More

California No More?

By Jane Kim   Jan 30, 2009 at 01:54 PM

Kevin Roderick at LAObserved reports that the Los Angeles Times is closing down its California section: Publisher Eddy Hartenstein has... More

Entitled Time

Campaign reporters catch up on their reading

By Jane Kim   Jan 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM

After two harried years on the trail, an endless stream of hotel rooms, fast food bolted on the fly, the... More

Short a Billion (or a Tad More)

By Jane Kim   Jan 21, 2009 at 01:10 PM

In The Economist's "The world this week" news briefs, we get an update on the bailout heard around the world:... More

The Podium and the Mall

Penning lines about the inauguration, columnists look both ways

By Jane Kim   Jan 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM

We have a new president. And after yesterday's inaugural festivities, op-ed columnists set to work to define what it was... More

Access Issues

NRO’s Gutmann says the media ban in Gaza was justified

By Jane Kim   Jan 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM

On Jan. 6, The New York Times published an editorial called “Incursion into Gaza,” in which it argued for media... More