Barack Obama: No Sweat

By Megan Garber   Jul 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM

So, in addition to his many other otherworldly qualities—the leg-thrilling oratory, the generation-uniting charisma, the Halo of Hope that bathes... More

CNN on Myanmar, Part II

By Megan Garber   Jul 18, 2008 at 10:07 AM

Earlier this week, we praised the outlets that are keeping the story of Myanmar's devastation in both the news and... More

The Daily Show Institutes the Dobbs-O-Meter

By Megan Garber   Jul 18, 2008 at 08:17 AM

In the wake of McCain's and Obama's appearances at the National Council of La Raza conference earlier this week, Jon... More

WaPo: Double Decker Danger!

By Megan Garber   Jul 18, 2008 at 07:27 AM

Good lord. The Washington Post, in the midst of rolling out its big, bold, incredibly odd Chandra Levy inquiry, fronts... More

From the Madd(ow)ing Crowd

By Megan Garber   Jul 17, 2008 at 05:17 PM

Wow, who knew how many people love Rachel Maddow?? In the wake of Jacques Steinberg's New York Times profile of... More

Breaking: TIME Magazine Uses “Frenemies” in a Headline

By Megan Garber   Jul 17, 2008 at 04:42 PM

The Us Weekly-ization of journalism might just be complete. On TIME magazine's Web site to check out the candidates' takes... More

Yglesias: Totally in the (Think) Tank

By Megan Garber   Jul 17, 2008 at 03:49 PM

Matt Yglesias, Atlantic reporter and uber-blogger, announced last night—after his news was outed by colleagues—that he'll be leaving the world... More

Where’s Education? Part III

It’s hard to find the education in McCain’s ed speech coverage

By Megan Garber   Jul 17, 2008 at 03:11 PM

Yesterday, for the first time during the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain issued a set of specific policy proposals for... More

Injusticia

By Megan Garber   Jul 16, 2008 at 04:47 PM

Reporters at San Francisco's leading Spanish-language TV news station make roughly one quarter less in base pay than their English-language... More

Meme Me Up

The evolution of the ‘terrorist fist jab’

By Megan Garber   Jul 16, 2008 at 04:34 PM

Bill Safire must be loving this. Campaign 2008, for everything else it has to recommend it, has also proven to... More

Keeping Myanmar in the News

Kudos to the outlets that do it

By Megan Garber   Jul 16, 2008 at 12:03 PM

It’s been over two months since Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, killing some 130,000—130,000—people, affecting 2.4 million, and wreaking havoc on... More

In Which Two Rivals May Marry

By Megan Garber   Jul 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM

Beatrice and Benedict. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Looks like another couple may soon be... More

“There’s No Muslim on This Boat”

…and other assorted Obama humor

By Megan Garber   Jul 15, 2008 at 05:16 PM

In light of New Yorker-gate Cartoon-gate Blitt-gate Have-We-No-More-Sense-Of-Humor-gate Cover-gate, the Times today bears sad tidings: Barack Obama's not funny. Yep,... More

McRubber, McGlue

For McCain, another week of Teflon

By Megan Garber   Jul 14, 2008 at 05:13 PM

Last week—the first following the McCain campaign’s big shakeup—was supposed to have marked a New Beginning for the Arizona senator.... More

Flipping Out

A modest proposal: enough with the “flip-flop”

By Megan Garber   Jul 11, 2008 at 02:33 PM

The shift came quickly. Barack Obama remarked last Thursday that, given recent developments on the ground in Iraq, he might... More