Twitter Must Die…Long Live Twitter

By Megan Garber   Aug 14, 2009 at 09:48 AM

"To Live, Twitter Must Die"? Slate's Farhad Manjoo makes the case. More

In Which the Word “False” Is Used Five Times

By Megan Garber   Aug 14, 2009 at 09:06 AM

If someone were to create a media criticism version of Family Feud*--and if, during an episode of that show, one... More

“He Was Swimming in a Butterscotch River while Angels Blew Cream-puff Kisses at His Feet”

By Megan Garber   Aug 14, 2009 at 08:15 AM

Yet again, The Daily Show's skewering of the media coverage of the health care debate is both brilliant and spot-on:... More

Frum: “The guns are coming out. The risks are real.”

By Megan Garber   Aug 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM

This has been, in the health care debate, The Week of the Gun. David Frum shoots back: It's not enough... More

On the Merits of Coke Classic

By Megan Garber   Aug 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM

Robert Wright, writing over at The Daily Dish, declares his appreciation for the latimes.com redesign: I like the new online... More

“Now Don’t You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare”

…and other absurdities of fact-free town halls

By Megan Garber   Aug 12, 2009 at 04:02 PM

You could actually pinpoint the moment, yesterday, at which the town hall Claire McCaskill held in Hillsboro, Missouri descended into... More

“Things Fall Apart; Balthazar Is on Hold”

By Megan Garber   Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM

In response to the Observer's tale of Condé's woes, Alex Balk (now of The Awl) has penned "The McKinsey Summing"--in... More

Ferguson and Felix: Coates’s Pseudo-Defense

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 10:42 PM

Niall Ferguson met widespread vitriol today for the blunt comparison he made, in his column in the Financial Times, between... More

Bruni’s Last Course

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 09:56 PM

Frank Bruni's final review as restaurant critic for The New York Times has just been published. And he goes out... More

Let Them Eat Cake. But Let That Cake Be Off-Brand.

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 09:52 PM

It is official. The mighty have fallen. More

Matthews to Kostric: “You’re Carrying a Goddamned Gun at a Presidential Event”

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 07:13 PM

On today's episode of Hardball, Chris Matthews grills William Kostric, the fellow (and--perhaps unsurprisingly, given the "Tree of Liberty" sign... More

Bosom Buddies

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 02:08 PM

Yet another way that Hillary Clinton has blazed a trail: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again stirring up discussion... More

Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton’s “Lost in Translation” Response to a “Bad Hair Day”

By Megan Garber   Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02 AM

So Hillary Clinton displayed a rare show of public anger yesterday during a town hall in Kinshasa, Congo--after a university... More

Froomkin’s First Huffington Post

By Megan Garber   Aug 10, 2009 at 02:55 PM

Dan Froomkin has officially started his tenure as Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, and he has now published... More

Maws, Mouthpiece, and “Mad Bitch”: Innovation Gone Wrong?

Why the “experimentation defense” doesn’t hold up

By Megan Garber   Aug 10, 2009 at 09:00 AM

For purposes of making a point, I'm going to begin in a way that I haven't begun since high school.... More