Campaign Desk

Live-Blogging Tonight’s Presidential Press Conference

By The Editors   Mar 24, 2009 at 07:30 PM

CJR staffers will be live-blogging tonight's presidential press conference (airing at 8pm on all major networks, and streaming live on... More

The Chuckle-Monster

Headlines turn the president’s laugh into a “gaffe”

By Jane Kim   Mar 24, 2009 at 04:16 PM

Steve Kroft’s Sunday night interview with President Obama covered substantive things, like Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s bank rescue plan, which... More

Massachusetts Health Reform Archive

An archive of all entries in Trudy Lieberman’s series

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 23, 2009 at 02:05 PM

Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts” series, in descending order. 03/03/10:... More

Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I

Critical analysis begins to trickle in

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More

FOIA’s Hidden Exemptions

A new bill tries to bring them into the sunshine

By Clint Hendler   Mar 19, 2009 at 02:28 PM

The idea behind the Freedom of Information Act is simple: file a request for a document with the government, and... More

Grassley to Limbaugh: Keep Distorting Health Reform

Iowa senator “encourages” conservative commentators

By Lester Feder   Mar 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM

Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and others recently launched a smear campaign against a provision in the stimulus bill designed to... More

Profiles of Power

New sites seek to map the mighty

By Kate Klonick   Mar 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM

If the collapse of the global financial system has taught us anything, it's that Main Street deserves a great deal... More

Mad Men

Post doesn’t parse the practical political consequences of public anger

By Greg Marx   Mar 18, 2009 at 03:21 PM

Everybody’s angry over the AIG bonus scandal. You’re angry, I’m angry, Congress is angry. Inuit fishermen who have no contact... More

Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer

For parsing preexisting conditions

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 18, 2009 at 02:20 PM

A couple of decades ago, journalists at every paper and TV station, following the lead of The Wall Street Journal,... More

Sorkin: Contracts Sacrosanct, Except When They’re Not

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM

An astute reader writes to point out that the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin wasn't all for the sacrosanctity of contracts... More

Sorkin and the Straw Man

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 17, 2009 at 09:10 AM

A big thumbs down to the Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin for his poorly reasoned column this morning on why we... More

The Political Capital of “Public Anger”

Rhetorical cliffhangers at The New York Times

By Jane Kim   Mar 16, 2009 at 04:08 PM

An article in The New York Times today takes a look at the “populist backlash” that is threatening to explode... More

The Chas Freeman Frenzy

The New York Times sits out a contentious foreign policy story

By Greg Marx   Mar 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Over the past few weeks, the American foreign policy community worked itself into something resembling a frenzy over the appointment... More

ProPublica Blogs the Stimulus

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

I really like this idea from the non-profit investigative-journalism folks at ProPublica: Bird-dog the hundreds of billions of dollars in... More

Carl Malamud, Public Printer

An open source Presidential appointment campaign

By Clint Hendler   Mar 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM

It was 1991, in the early days of the Internet. Carl Malamud was thirty-two years old, and deeply embedded in... More