A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context

Reports from recent campaign finance reports

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM

There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More

On Givhan

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 15, 2010 at 05:08 PM

For some fifteen years, Robin Givhan has served as fashion critic for the Washington Post which, Stephen Colbert once observed,... More

Comforting the Afflicted

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 8, 2010 at 04:12 PM

From a New York Times piece today about "high-end junk-food purveyors that have popped up around Capitol Hill recently:" Very... More

Coalition to Protect Workplace Lollygaggers

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM

Need a Monday morning study break? Try out the Political Action Committee (PAC) Name Generator, created by the Sunlight Foundation... More

The Ongoing Burmese “Information Challenge”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM

Over at PBS MediaShift, Simon Roughneen has a fascinating report on the ongoing difficulties of "getting the news out of... More

So You Want to Talk to the Governor?

The word “promise” comes up

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM

It's February, maybe March, of 2010. You're a political reporter frantically seeking face or phone time with Governor David Paterson... More

From “Arab Newsrooms,” Day Two

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 30, 2010 at 03:18 PM

Yesterday, Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch and Meris Lutz at the LA Times’s Babylon & Beyond blog both took a look... More

Diplomatic Cable Writing “A Bit Like Journalism”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 30, 2010 at 01:18 PM

Slate today has an Explainer addressing two basic questions raised by Cablegate: "What's a diplomatic cable? And why is the... More

Ugly American(isms)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 29, 2010 at 05:10 PM

At The Guardian's Mind Your Language blog, David Marsh defends against a common reader complaint that "too many 'Americanisms'" appear... More

“Tense Scenes in Arab Newsrooms Right Now”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 29, 2010 at 04:33 PM

About those leaked cables that point to, as the New York Times puts it, “a largely silent front of Arab... More

Assigned to Review Palin’s Book?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 24, 2010 at 11:20 AM

At Slate, David Weigel reviews Sarah Palin's latest book, America By Heart, and, mid-review, offers this "how to" for others... More

“Months of Juicy Speculation” Ahead, You Say?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 17, 2010 at 03:45 PM

"Prince William and Kate Middleton sat down with advisers Wednesday to begin planning the royal wedding that some Britons have... More

Covering the Dems Big Donor “Huddle”

Only Politico showed up?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM

Last week, reports started appearing that a big group of deep-pocketed Democratic donors would be gathering this week in Washington,... More

Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Not Just About Alaska?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Sarah Palin's Alaska debuted on TLC last night and this morning one can read in any number of places how... More

“Snapshots of a Time Before War”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM

"I was greeted by snapshots when I first entered Iraq in 2003," writes the New York Times's Marc Santora at... More