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Must-reads of 2012: politics

What you should have read (in case you didn’t)

As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. From New York magazine,... More

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Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’

For enabling Harry Reid’s game of telephone sourcing on Romney’s taxes

Yesterday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Columbia tax law professor Michael J. Graetz, exploring, as the... More

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Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record

For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns’ message control

Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead... More

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A dart to the campaign press corps

…for acquiescing to that whole “quote approval” thing

It’s a diffuse target, but the campaign press corps writ large earns a dart this week for acquiescing to... More

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Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer

Amid some Dart-worthy coverage, a few stories stand out

Brendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw... More

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A laurel to Politifact Florida

Site pushes back against misinformation about Obamacare and small business

Our run of Swing States Project praise continues with a laurel to Politifact Florida, where reporters Tia Mitchell, Katie... More

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A laurel to Denver’s Westword

Alt-weekly scours TV stations’ public files for details on political spending

For months now, CJR has been urging the FCC to improve public access to the “public inspection files” maintained... More

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A laurel to WaPo’s debunking of ‘EPA drones’

David Fahrenthold chronicles the “life cycle of a falsehood”

Starting today, we’ll be bringing a venerable CJR tradition, Darts & Laurels, to The Swing States Project. Each Wednesday,... More

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