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Swing States Project
In Florida, the GOP Woos Hispanic Voters
January 27, 2012 01:48 PMMIAMI, FLORIDA — The Hispanic Leadership Network is a center-right political advocacy organization that, in its single year of existence, has attracted considerable support from the Hispanic-American political establishment. Tonight—Thursday—the group is co-sponsoring, along with CNN, the latest Republican... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Waiting for Newt in Naples
January 26, 2012 06:56 AMNAPLES, FLORIDA — It is late Tuesday afternoon in Naples, and a few thousand people have gathered around the Cambier Park bandstand to express their support for Newt Gingrich, who is leading the polls with a week to go before... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Primary Night on Elm Street
January 11, 2012 12:44 PMNEW HAMPSHIRE — Rich Girard, former Manchester alderman, is the host of Girard at Large, a Manchester-based current events talk show that broadcasts every weekday on 1250 AM. Tonight—primary night—Girard is hosting a fifteen-hour broadcast that's simulcast on Manchester Public... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Twenty-Nine Hours on the Campaign Trail
January 10, 2012 04:00 PMNEW HAMPSHIRE — When covering New Hampshire, as with any primary, the general journalistic strategy is to trail the candidates around the state, cameras and microphones out, as they visit as many restaurants, grade school auditoriums, and American Legion halls... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
A Night Out with National Review
January 8, 2012 04:21 PMMANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE — Last night, finding myself unable to get tickets to the monster truck rally in the downtown Verizon Wireless Arena, I did the next best thing and attended a National Review-sponsored debate party in the Grand Ballroom... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Movement Man
December 31, 2011 09:53 PMThe week before Occupy Boston changed Chris Faraone's life, grassroots revolution was already on his mind. Faraone, who covers rap music and social injustice for the Boston Phoenix, had filed a 2000-word story about a progressive group called... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Univision
December 14, 2011 03:11 PMPlaceholder URL for the extended version of Erika Fry's Jan/Feb 2012 Darts and Laurels piece on Univision. Continue reading
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Essay
A Mad Libs Keynote
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Essay
On Facebook and Freedom
November 17, 2011 06:00 AMIn September of this year, the Internet briefly burbled with the news that Facebook, the market leader in workday-wastery, would soon debut several fundamental changes to its site. For some of the more excitable online pundits, this was akin... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter
November 11, 2011 02:11 AMThe most frustrating thing about the Jim Romenesko affair is the way that so many people who should know better are insisting that there is no Jim Romenesko affair. Romenesko, the seminal media blogger, resigned from the Poynter... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The Other Rogue
September 8, 2011 05:28 PMIs Joe McGinniss a jerk? Sarah Palin certainly thinks so: she didn't like it when McGinniss rented the Wasilla house next door to hers while researching and writing The Rogue, his recent book about Palin. But my friend Matt Harwood... Continue reading
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Behind the News
George W. and the Texas Press
July 12, 2011 11:50 AMGeorge W. Bush says he doesn't read newspapers. He does, however, apparently read Texas Monthly magazine. In fact, the president of the United States drinks his coffee from a Texas Monthly mug. And with good reason. Perhaps no other Texas... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Read Jim Sleeper’s Essay on Ressentiment
May 20, 2011 03:58 PMBefore it gets too late, I want to take a moment to recommend Jim Sleeper's excellent essay that ran at TPM last week, expanding on his recent Washington Monthly review of William McGowan's Gray Lady... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Paying Off
April 19, 2011 09:29 AM -
Behind the News
The Story so Far
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Sample Test Page
April 3, 2011 03:45 PMLorem ipsum dolor sit amet... ... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Outdated Promotional Material, Volume One
October 19, 2010 04:00 PMFound in the office this afternoon, circa (I think) 2000/2001: I guess "CJR: Ladder to Nowhere" doesn't have the same ring to it... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Washington Post: Fenty Defeats Gray!
September 15, 2010 11:44 AMYesterday, city council president Vincent Gray defeated abrasive incumbent Adrian Fenty in D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary. (Gray is all but guaranteed to take office in November.) Fenty's defeat was hard to take for many—including, apparently, The Washington Post. CJR contributor... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Ayn Rand: “A Greatness Stunted by Hate”
August 31, 2010 04:35 PMIn the August 30 issue of National Review, Jason Lee Steorts has a good and thoughtful piece on "The Greatly Ghastly Rand." Ayn Rand, that is—the artless Objectivist harridan who wrote The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and other books... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Are Disclaimers Enough for WaPo When it Comes to Kaplan?
August 30, 2010 04:01 PMOn August 22, The Washington Post ran an editorial about the Obama administration's plans to further regulate for-profit colleges--a move that could harm schools like Kaplan University, which is owned by the Washington Post Company. To its credit,... Continue reading
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