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Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone”

Across the Atlantic, Washington’s myopia seems more exaggerated than usual

By Charles Kaiser   Feb 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM

LONDON-- From the other side of the Atlantic, Washington's myopia seems even more exaggerated than usual. Two days ago in... More

President Obama’s First News Conference: Superlatives!

Fifty-eight minutes of excitement!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 10, 2009 at 07:00 AM

Best Question: Jake Tapper, ABC News TAPPER: “The American people have seen hundreds of billions of dollars spent already. And... More

Vetting Daschle’s Replacement

And the wisdom of the crowd

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 9, 2009 at 01:07 PM

Call it citizen journalism or citizen participation, but the Internet has been full of stories about Tom Daschle’s would-be replacement... More

Excluded Voices

An interview with Timothy Jost

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 9, 2009 at 07:00 AM

The past year’s health care discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated... More

The $64 Billion Tax Break

NYT and Post downplay the Senate stimulus bill’s upper-middle class tax break

By Haley Edwards   Feb 6, 2009 at 05:34 PM

The top stories in both The New York Times and The Washington Post today focused on the bipartisan Senate committee... More

See-Through Stimulus

Is Capitol Hill writing a transparent recovery?

By Clint Hendler   Feb 6, 2009 at 03:36 PM

As the Senate rips pages out of the prospective stimulus bill, the world seems focused on where the money is... More

Baucus Watch, Part V

Smoke signals—when exactly will health reform happen?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More

Defining “Middle Class”

Joe Biden and the White House Task Force on the Middle Class

By Daniel Luzer   Feb 5, 2009 at 02:05 PM

In the midst of the debates leading up to the recent presidential election, the governor of Alaska said something to... More

Winners & Sinners

Kaiser on Daschle, Newsweek, Philip Bennett, and more

By Charles Kaiser   Feb 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Winners: Barack Obama, and the American people, for not getting Tom Daschle as their new Secretary of Health and Human... More

Late Filing

By Clint Hendler   Feb 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM

There's something missing from the top of this New York Times story on how "competing ambitions" for "Washington's financial rewards"... More

Bipartisan Talk

WaPo discusses the word at length

By Jane Kim   Feb 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Monday’s Washington Post had an oddly long take on “bipartisanship” gracing its front page. Is bipartisanship about the act of... More

The Daschle Dilemma

Let’s step up scrutiny of the cabinet picks

By Katia Bachko   Feb 3, 2009 at 04:34 PM

Earlier today, former senator Tom Daschle—embroiled in controversy over $128,000 in unpaid taxes—withdrew from consideration for the Secretary of Health... More

My O’Reilly Ambush

A CJR editor’s unexpected interview

By Mike Hoyt   Feb 3, 2009 at 01:26 PM

My usual bus-stop companions are an Irish man with an interesting cap and a tall young Indian woman with a... More

Who Will Be at the Table? Part V

The hospitals begin to take their seats

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM

During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More

Mr. Daschle and His Speaking Fees

What “policy advice” did he give to United Healthcare?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 2, 2009 at 09:24 AM

Only the naïve would expect a public official to be pure as an angel these days, what with today’s megabuck... More