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No Time for the Timetable?

This morning, the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the LA... More

The Verdict: Disclosure, Please

Earlier today, I mentioned an article, penned by the HuffPo's Rachel Sklar, that explains Rachel Maddow's ascension to her own... More

Conventional Wisdom

As a lead-up to Denver, the Washington Post has enlisted David Broder--who has covered every convention since 1956 (again: 1956)--for... More

Refuge Romenesko

Rachel Sklar, senior editor at the Huffington Post and scribe of its "Eat the Press" column, has an article up... More

Best Headline of the Week?

From The New York Times's exploration of the efforts that Applebee's, erstwhile Mecca of Casual Dining, is making to update... More

More Face Time for Obama

Barack Obama once again gets the cover of Time magazine. For anyone keeping track, this makes seven Time covers for... More

A Home-Grown -Gate!

Talk about a housing crisis. Yesterday, following John McCain on the trail in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Politico's Jonathan Martin... More

High in the Mile High City?

So Denver authorities are assuming, it seems, that the press, pols, and party people who'll be descending on their city... More

Six(ty) Degrees of Separation?

November’s Senate races are a story, too. Let’s start treating them that way.

In November, thirty-five seats in the U.S. Senate will be up for re-election. Of those, twenty-three are currently held by... More

Another Two Against The One

A MoDowd divided cannot stand

A theory of the genesis of MoDowd’s column today: In the dead of night, in the elegantly-yet-whimsically decorated home... More

Edwards Love Child Story Chapter XXXVI: In Which an Expert Testifies

Here's Dr. Dennis Hurwitz, clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, providing some much-buzzed-about "proof"... More

Mad(dow) About You

So looks like the Maddow Love is now officially sanctioned. TV Decoder's reporting that Rachel Maddow, MSNBC pundette loved by,... More

Olbermann Wins Gold in Vitriol

On a night that found the world's top gymnasts flipping, stretching, and straining for gold in individual apparatus events in... More

A Candy Buffet, You Say?

Bloggers will get their own Big Tent at the conventions

Pity the bloggers. Alternately glorified as the harbingers of Journalism’s Future, alternately vilified as the agents of Journalism’s Demise, the... More

The Fun Will Come Out…Tomorrow?

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, apparently. The Times reports today that Politico--and all the other outlets declaring this to be,... More

Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges

A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe

Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010

Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case

The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime

How to legalize pot

“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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