My Birthday The Day Daddy Won a Pulitzer

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:05 PM

Yesterday, the Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited for his “vivid and exuberant writing about... More

What’s With Karl Rove’s Wiki?

Salon explains while NYT doesn’t finish its thought

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Wikicountablity.org is not Karl Rove's wiki, photos of Karl Rove accompanying the New York Times's two Wikicountability stories (and my... More

Department of Thin Skin

Toobin: Don’t “blame journalists”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2011 at 03:56 PM

Jeffrey Toobin has a column in the current New Yorker in which he discusses the current Supreme Court's "revolution in... More

“We Followed in the Bubble”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 22, 2011 at 01:27 PM

My daily newspaper went to Brazil with President Obama and all I got (well, not all) was this "quick video... More

Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver

How political reporter Jon Ralston got the story

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM

If this isn't illegal, it should be. This has been the "almost universal" reaction, says veteran Nevada political reporter Jon... More

Shameless Japan “Coverage” from MSNBC, CBS

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 15, 2011 at 03:06 PM

A dart to MSNBC and its new hire, Martin Bashir, who used the monologue part of his eponymous cable news... More

Relax! IRS Rules Are “Lax”

WaPo has good news for anonymous political donors

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 11, 2011 at 04:09 PM

Are you a 501(c)(4) group that spent millions of anonymous dollars on attack ads during the midterm elections (or, perhaps,... More

Lean, Mean Campaign Money Machine

Crossroads groups tell WSJ, world what they aim to spend on election 2012

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM

The paper that is home to a weekly column by Karl Rove got first dibs Tuesday on the announcement of... More

How a Defense Contract Is Won

NYT’s Boeing report left out the lobbying

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM

You're a giant aerospace company pursuing a defense contract potentially worth $100 billion: so, what's your lobbying budget for that?... More

Fake David Koch Calls Real Scott Walker

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM

My headline basically says it all. Posing as the billionaire businessman and conservative-cause-funding David Koch (you may know him from... More

Lara Logan, Foreign Correspondents, and Sexual Abuse

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM

On Tuesday came the chilling news from CBS News that chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, while reporting a 60 Minutes... More

“How You Raise Money” in D.C. (Hint: “Frugging”)

WaPo on Gingrich’s “money-making machine”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 16, 2011 at 05:14 PM

That Newt Gingrich's sanguinely named 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, "pulls in big money" has been reported.... More

Premiere Plants

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 14, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Well, here's a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect... More

Kochs’ Influence

Another week in the news for the billionaire brothers

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 11, 2011 at 09:50 AM

Last week, Politico's Kenneth Vogel reported that "faced with an avalanche of bad publicity after years of funding conservative causes... More

Tea Party Review to Debut

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 9, 2011 at 05:20 PM

I think it was the Sunday Styles that brought us together. I think it was the Week in Review Tea... More