Campaign Desk

How The West Was Lost

California Watch Rummages Through Whitman’s Purse

By Joel Meares   Nov 5, 2010 at 01:30 PM

Much has been written this election cycle about all the self-funded business-background candidates who stepped into the campaign fray, checkbooks... More

Nasiripour on America’s Failing Monetary Policy

By Felix Salmon   Nov 5, 2010 at 08:52 AM

Shahien Nasiripour has delivered a massive 4,000-word article on the Fed’s monetary policy, laying out with great clarity just... More

Baying for Tears

President’s answers no neat lede

By Joel Meares   Nov 4, 2010 at 02:40 PM

In a blog post following yesterday’s “sad sack press conference” at the White House, The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky wrote that... More

An Attack Ad That Might (Still) Grab You

PBS on campaign spending: he-said, she-said, and something more

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 4, 2010 at 01:38 PM

At this point, a political attack ad would probably sound to you something like the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher:... More

Interactivity on a Budget

How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Earlier this week I did a quick rundown of some eye-catching interactive graphics that newsrooms at papers like The New... More

The Election Story Not Told

The irony of health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM

For months we knew that health reform was in big trouble. Tuesday night, we found out how big. Health care... More

The Journal Misfires on the Economy and the Election

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2010 at 09:47 AM

The Wall Street Journal makes a logical error this morning in reporting that the "Economy Wasn't Sole Voter Concern." Now,... More

Six Nuggets from the 2010 Exit Polls

Who voted for whom, and what did they think?

By Clint Hendler   Nov 3, 2010 at 03:16 PM

If you watched cable last night, you may have had so much exit poll data thrown your way that you’re... More

A Future for Cooperative Politics?

New York Times story on candidates’ psychology is overly optimistic

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 3, 2010 at 02:49 PM

Thankfully, the days of “neuropunditry,” which sought to decipher voters’ thoughts with brain imaging and which blighted coverage of the... More

The Advice Columnists

Pundits and their post-midterms tips

By Joel Meares   Nov 3, 2010 at 01:55 PM

The post-midterm op-ed pages were full of advice this morning. Nearly all offered tips for a beleaguered president who took... More

Election Night Coverage Roundup

What was said on CNN, NPR, the BBC, the NYT, and elsewhere

By CJR Staff   Nov 3, 2010 at 01:46 AM

CNN CNN clearly wants to wow viewers with the whiz-bang: the “data wall,” the “election matrix,” the “sentiment analysis” of... More

What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us about Iran?

Use caution in reading the Iraq war logs—and news coverage of them

By Ali Gharib   Nov 2, 2010 at 04:25 PM

A source provides details to the American government about the nefarious activities of a Middle Eastern country. That information ends... More

Some Helpful Guides to Election Night TV

What to read while you watch

By Joel Meares   Nov 2, 2010 at 02:59 PM

My colleague Liz Cox Barrett previewed the big guns' plans for tonight’s coverage. But just what should you have in... More

Felix Salmon is the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Peterson Fellow

Will blog about media coverage of fiscal and economic policy

By Dean Starkman   Nov 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM

Felix Salmon, the finance blogger for Reuters and a leading voice on financial and economic issues, has been appointed the... More

If You Don’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em?

NYT, LAT on outside groups, election spending, and 2012

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 2, 2010 at 09:45 AM

Those heavy-spending outside groups that have come out in force this election season? We're likely to see their ilk (and... More