Uncivil Wars

The president should be more civil, whatever that means

By Joel Meares   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM

With Wednesday’s deficit speech and Thursday night’s leaked comments about “sneak”-ing through agendas and Paul Ryan not being “on... More

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them

By Joel Meares   Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More

Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech

More subdued libs are mostly pleased

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 01:11 PM

The president’s speech yesterday was notable to my ears for two things: the surprisingly direct attack on Rep. Paul... More

Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM

Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... More

Two Non-Plans for the Deficit

Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:13 PM

Relatively vague previews of the president’s big deficit speech today suggest he will tout cuts to Medicare, limits on... More

Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The... More

AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)

Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 08:09 AM

AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire... More

Q&A with NPR Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard (UPDATED)

“This is really the first time in NPR’s grown-up history that it’s been under siege.”

By Joel Meares   Apr 11, 2011 at 01:22 PM

When Alicia Shepard became NPR’s ombudswoman in October 2007, she knew there would be challenges—public broadcasters are always going... More

Politico’s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat

First stop in following the negotiations

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Is there anyone doing as good a job tracking federal budget negotiations as Politico’s David Rogers? The man’s been a... More

Glenn Beck Going Back to Silversmithing?

Beck explains why he’s jumping off the horse

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM

First: a confession. I have not been a particularly diligent media reporter where Glenn Beck is concerned. In fact,... More

New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM

A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More

Some Clarity Amid Budget Proposal Confusion

Jon Ward breaks down the Obama and Ryan numbers

By Joel Meares   Apr 5, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Paul Ryan’s budget proposal—described as “radical” by some and hailed by others as if fresh from the summit of... More

The Littlest Press Shop

Sacramento reporters like Brown’s scaled-back press approach; mostly

By Joel Meares   Apr 4, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Just five days into his latest term in the Sacramento statehouse, California governor Jerry Brown announced that he was cutting... More

Ryan’s Whopper $4 Trillion

Where it will come from and what it might mean

By Joel Meares   Apr 4, 2011 at 01:29 PM

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) visited Fox News Sunday this weekend and confirmed last week’s reporting suggesting a... More

Times Has Giffords’ Impact on Arizona Senate Race

But we have to keep some perspective here

By Joel Meares   Mar 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM

In some ways it feels morbid to urge caution for those envisioning a swift fairytale return to politics for... More