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A Voice for the Unemployed

Yahoo!’s haunting look at the lives of the long-term jobless

By Greg Marx   Jul 15, 2011 at 11:48 AM

Had your fill of reading about who stormed out on whom, and who called whom “childish,” in the umpteenth round... More

Good and Bad from the NewsHour

Woodruff and Ifill begin to push the politicians—sort of

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 14, 2011 at 01:01 PM

The NewsHour presented an interesting program the other night and the program’s customary balance format actually produced some illuminating journalism.... More

Deficit Public Opinion Goes Missing

By Erika Fry   Jul 13, 2011 at 03:52 PM

We’ve been reading that lots of people that matter are not happy with developments in those deficit reductions talks. But... More

“Dumbest News Story Ever Written in Human History”

WaPo breaks First Lady Lunch news

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 12, 2011 at 06:33 PM

Per the Washington Post yesterday: [A] Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed... Consider, for a moment, all the possible... More

Bland Brand, Bad Buzz

For Pawlenty, “the headlines are a killer”

By Erika Fry   Jul 12, 2011 at 03:52 PM

In recent weeks, you may have noticed something of a Tim Pawlenty pile-on in the press. (Collectively, it sounds something... More

The Personal and the Political

The debt-ceiling deadlock isn’t about Obama and Boehner’s relationship

By Greg Marx   Jul 11, 2011 at 03:19 PM

As the debt ceiling standoff drags on and on, imperiling America’s creditworthiness and pushing other issues off the agenda, it’s... More

Joe Lieberman and his Medicare Gift

The press needs to untie the bow—and quickly

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM

Leave it to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to speed along the process of making seniors on Medicare pay more for... More

An #askObama Takeaway: Public has questions about housing, education policy

Will the White House press corps get the message?

By Greg Marx   Jul 7, 2011 at 04:11 PM

In the wake of yesterday’s “Twitter townhall,” The Boston Globe put together an interesting infographic comparing Twitter users’ #askObama questions... More

A Deficit of Detail

Big news and few specifics on Obama’s debt move

By Erika Fry   Jul 7, 2011 at 02:33 PM

This morning’s papers all delivered big news: Obama had a bigger, bolder debt reduction plan in mind, to save $4... More

Obama’s Twitter Townhall

“Win win” for White House and Twitter, 140 characters for everyone else

By Erika Fry   Jul 6, 2011 at 04:47 PM

This summer Twitter brought us Anthony Weiner in his underpants; a Fox News-imposter who briefly hacked the President to death... More

Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part III

What we can learn from the Brits

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 6, 2011 at 01:37 PM

Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. Since the Institute of Medicine published... More

A kingmaker for the invisible primary

By Greg Marx   Jul 6, 2011 at 09:17 AM

Yesterday, we published an interview I conducted with Hans Noel, co-author of the 2008 book The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations... More

Primary School

NYT fails on why—or even if—freshmen reps will face GOP challenges

By Erika Fry   Jul 6, 2011 at 09:00 AM

On its front page yesterday, The New York Times explained that freshman Republican congressmen are feeling frightened. The cause, em... More

How to Understand the ‘Invisible Primary’

An interview with Georgetown professor Hans Noel

By Greg Marx   Jul 5, 2011 at 02:34 PM

The 2012 Iowa caucuses are still seven months away, but Republican presidential hopefuls are already well into the “invisible primary”—a... More

Economic Policy-makers Go MIA

National Journal on the holes in Obama’s team

By Greg Marx   Jul 5, 2011 at 02:16 PM

The focus in the political press today is all about whether Congressional Republicans, having extracted promises from the White House... More