Campaign Desk

Lean, Mean Campaign Money Machine

Crossroads groups tell WSJ, world what they aim to spend on election 2012

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM

The paper that is home to a weekly column by Karl Rove got first dibs Tuesday on the announcement of... More

A Big Omission at NBC

Whatever happened to Social Security?

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM

NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... More

Egypt’s Revolution through My Students’ Eyes

Arab reporters bear witness to Mubarak’s fall

By Lawrence Pintak   Mar 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM

“I was attacked today when I tried to protect some foreigners.” The Facebook message arrived in my inbox early afternoon... More

The Flack Who Shared Too Much

When can a news organization expect silence?

By Clint Hendler   Mar 2, 2011 at 07:30 AM

All it was missing was the siren. Late Monday night, Politico broke the news that a congressman’s spokesman may have... More

How a Defense Contract Is Won

NYT’s Boeing report left out the lobbying

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM

You're a giant aerospace company pursuing a defense contract potentially worth $100 billion: so, what's your lobbying budget for that?... More

The Return of Socialized Medicine

Mike Huckabee resurrects the bogeyman

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 28, 2011 at 02:42 PM

Mike Huckabee, presumed presidential aspirant, is preaching the gospel of socialized medicine by attacking the Massachusetts reform law, of all... More

“Tweaking” Health Reform

Who pays the price for the changes?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 25, 2011 at 11:02 AM

Lost in MSM coverage of the president’s budget and hype over a government shutdown has been reportage about the various... More

Fake David Koch Calls Real Scott Walker

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM

My headline basically says it all. Posing as the billionaire businessman and conservative-cause-funding David Koch (you may know him from... More

Safety Tips for Female Correspondents

How to minimize the risk of sexual assault while on the job

By Judith Matloff   Feb 22, 2011 at 04:21 PM

The attack on Lara Logan of CBS was a worst-case scenario for many female reporters. Yet gropes and unwanted advances... More

Pinning Down the Pols

NPR misses again on Social Security story

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM

A few days ago, NPR’s Morning Edition brought together Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, and Sen. Mark Warner, a... More

The Budget Narrative

The press goes astray on Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM

For most of last year and so far into this one, the media has passed along the narrative that Social... More

“How You Raise Money” in D.C. (Hint: “Frugging”)

WaPo on Gingrich’s “money-making machine”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 16, 2011 at 05:14 PM

That Newt Gingrich's sanguinely named 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, "pulls in big money" has been reported.... More

Q&A: New York Times Reporter Jackie Calmes

“The Internet has changed how you report on the budget”

By Joel Meares   Feb 16, 2011 at 04:12 PM

At 9:30 am last Monday, New York Times White House correspondent Jackie Calmes began poring through five fat volumes of... More

Left, Right, and Center: A budget analysis roundup

A budget worth shellacking or perfect politics?

By Joel Meares   Feb 15, 2011 at 02:03 PM

We’ve all had a day or so to chew over President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget—a $3.7 trillion plan that... More

Minnesota Public Radio Takes on Pawlenty

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 14, 2011 at 02:22 PM

It was good to see Minnesota Public Radio get an early start truth squading an emerging candidate for the GOP... More