Campaign Desk

Memo to Robert Samuelson

A few more facts on Medicare, please

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM

Dear Robert: I read a Washington Post column of yours just after Christmas—the one about the fairness dilemma and how... More

The $100 Billion Question

Did Times fail to do initial reporting?

By Joel Meares   Jan 5, 2011 at 10:19 AM

On the day the 112th Congress will be sworn in, reaction to a New York Times article revealing the... More

The Lowdown on High-Risk Pools

A harbinger of things to come?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM

It was good to see Amy Goldstein’s fine piece on high-risk insurance pools in The Washington Post. It’s an example... More

“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”

East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement

By Joel Meares   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More

Best of 2010: Clint Hendler

Hendler picks his top stories from 2010

By Clint Hendler   Dec 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM

No Handouts: The administration has denied independent photographers access to historic White House events that could easily be made public,... More

Best of 2010: Trudy Lieberman

Lieberman picks her top stories from 2010

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM

Social Security in the Heartland series: All year the media ignored how “fixes” to Social Security pushed by political elites... More

Best of 2010: Greg Marx

Marx picks his top stories from 2010

By Greg Marx   Dec 30, 2010 at 12:03 PM

Polar Opposites: Regular readers might remember that during my time at CJR, I was something of a nag about what... More

Best of 2010: Joel Meares

Meares picks his top stories from 2010

By Joel Meares   Dec 28, 2010 at 01:18 PM

1) The Biggest Fish in Albany The best part of writing this profile of Liz Benjamin—Albany blogger, TV personality, reporter... More

Best of 2010: Liz Cox Barrett

Barrett picks her top stories from 2010

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 27, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Target Corp.'s "Perfect Storm." Target was but one of several Minnesota-based companies to spend corporate money on election 2010, as... More

Hawaii Four-Four

Digging deep on the president’s Christmas vacation

By Joel Meares   Dec 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Pity the poor political writer who must spend his or her pre-holiday hours eking out a report on the President’s... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Nick Quealy-Gainer

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 22, 2010 at 01:25 PM

This is the ninth and final installment in a series of posts that discusses how possible changes in Social Security... More

Reapportionment Wars

Outlets weigh in on the Census’s political implications

By Joel Meares   Dec 22, 2010 at 12:16 PM

There goes the decade. That decennial phenomenon “reapportionment” is back in the news with the U.S. Census Bureau releasing the... More

FCC Passes Net Neutrality Policy (Sort Of)

And the press plays all the angles

By Lauren Kirchner   Dec 21, 2010 at 06:00 PM

The Federal Communications Commission voted three to two on Tuesday afternoon to approve a new set of rules governing the... More

More On Outside Interests Inside Sacramento

Mercury News updates “sponsored bills” investigation

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 21, 2010 at 03:17 PM

The San Jose Mercury News's Karen de Sá has filed an update to her excellent series on "sponsored bills" in... More

Assange’s Testy Q&A with the BBC

By Joel Meares   Dec 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM

BBC 4 radio host John Humphrys this morning scored the first broadcast interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange since his... More