To Fear or Not to Fear

The (American) Web on The Muslim Brotherhood

By Joel Meares   Jan 31, 2011 at 03:52 PM

The Muslim Brotherhood has agreed to back secular opposition voice Mohamed ElBaradei as official spokesman of Egypt’s opposition groups... More

Politico Kicks Off 2012

Bold new site complete with “Santa Tracker”

By Joel Meares   Jan 31, 2011 at 11:58 AM

Depending on your tastes, this weekend’s launch of Politico 2012 LIVE might be the Second Coming of Christ or the... More

Get To Know Jay Carney

And the target on his back

By Joel Meares   Jan 27, 2011 at 04:42 PM

If reports are true, the White House will announce tomorrow that Jay Carney, the former Time magazine Washington bureau chief... More

Debt and Weed

The president faces a YouTube nation

By Joel Meares   Jan 27, 2011 at 02:32 PM

At 2.30 p.m. (EST) President Obama will appear on YouTube answering questions submitted by the website’s users. With questions... More

Keller’s WikiLeaks Think Piece

Assange bad; leaks good

By Joel Meares   Jan 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM

Times executive editor Bill Keller has a 7,900-plus word piece in Sunday’s magazine called “Dealing with Assange and the Secrets... More

Before We Meet the Press Secretary

A chance for all to raise the bar

By Joel Meares   Jan 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM

The new White House press secretary is likely to be announced today or tomorrow. Whoever it is, they will step... More

NYT Photographer Moises Saman Injured in Tunisia

By Joel Meares   Jan 26, 2011 at 01:54 PM

The New York Times's Lens blog reports that photographer Moises Saman was "mildly injured" on Tuesday in Tunisia when six... More

Q&A: Former NYT Shanghai Bureau Chief Howard French, Part Two

On how the press covered Hu’s visit

By Joel Meares   Jan 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM

In the wake of Chinese president Hu Jintao's four-day U.S. trip, CJR assistant editor Joel Meares discussed the media's take... More

SOTU: What the pundits are saying

A morning-after roundup

By Joel Meares   Jan 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM

So the State of the Union played out something like a slowly deflating balloon—robust and shiny in the beginning,... More

A Note on the State of the Union

Let’s go beyond the theater

By Joel Meares   Jan 25, 2011 at 06:22 PM

If you hadn’t already dismissed the State of the Union address as a kind of political Oscars—a room full of... More

Q&A: Former NYT Shanghai Bureau Chief Howard French

On how the press covered Hu Jintao’s visit

By Joel Meares   Jan 25, 2011 at 03:25 PM

Chinese President Hu Jintao’s four-day U.S. trip last week produced a number of takeaways: the two countries’ business communities will... More

SOTU Spoilers Make For Dull Reading

A day is not a long wait

By Joel Meares   Jan 24, 2011 at 02:58 PM

Could not help but notice two Tweets today that seem to sum up my own view of State of the... More

New York’s Obama WH Profile Juicy and Lite

Heilemann on the Obama redux

By Joel Meares   Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM

John Heilemann has the cover of New York this week—out today with a picture of the president on the front,... More

A Suspicious Palin Moratorium

By Joel Meares   Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM

So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More

Republican Study Committee Gets Specific

Reporters grapple with complexities

By Joel Meares   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:44 PM

The Republican Study Committee—a conservative committee which includes about three quarters of the Republican House conference—released a plan yesterday that,... More