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Campaign Desk

Seven Questions for Barack Obama

Congratulations, Mr. President. Now get to work.

As the inaugural crowds pack their bags and head home from Washington, suffused with the sense of having been part... More

Borderless Journalism in Gaza

BBC, CNN-I, and Al Jazeera English offer nuanced coverage of Gaza war

CAIRO – In television terms, Gaza has been déjà vu all over again. U.S. television has been dominated by talking... More

Missing Children

The story behind the story on SCHIP

Last week, the House passed a long-awaited bill that would increase the number of kids covered under the State Children’s... More

Access Issues

NRO’s Gutmann says the media ban in Gaza was justified

On Jan. 6, The New York Times published an editorial called “Incursion into Gaza,” in which it argued for media... More

Live Blogging the Inauguration Live Blogs

Starting here around 11 AM

CJR staffers will be reading a selection of today's inauguration live blogs so that you don't have to, and will... More

Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic

Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or... More

Hamas ≠ Nazis (or Hamas = Nazis?)

In some equations, proportionality does matter

"Who are the real Nazis?" read a recent op-ed headline in the Los Angeles Times. The column it announced, penned... More

Dart to the Florida Health News Service

Whose side is it on, anyway?

“Will Obama be able to kill popular Advantage plans?" Whoa! The headline sounded ominous and signaled that the new president... More

WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare

Journalists should jump on this story ASAP

It’s not everyday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cracks down hard on one of its clients;... More

Stop the Ambulance Chasers!

Knowing a lot about Iraq doesn’t help you much in Afghanistan

Now that the war in Iraq is won, according to journalist-bloggers like Michael Yon, we can expect to see a... More

Health Care Flashpoints Archive

An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” articles

Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” series, in descending order. 06/29/09: Health... More

Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?

Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover

With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More

A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away

A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?

The headline on a New York Times story Friday piqued my interest and probably that of health care mavens who... More

Politicker Out

Political blog network shutters all but two sites

The Politico’s Michael Calderone brings the news that the battered Politicker network of sites is abandoning its last remnants outside... More

The Opinion Chorus on Gaza

What columnists and opinion writers argued, explained, and claimed this week

Fourteen days into the Israeli offensive in Gaza, opinion writers and op-ed columnists have spent no deficient number of inches... More

Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican

What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands

What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?

Don’t pray for Oklahoma

Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters

This is water

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

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