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More Codes in the Social Security War

WaPo unravels one and misses another

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 17, 2010 at 01:28 PM

The Washington Post, which at times has acted like the head media cheerleader for the president’s deficit commission, appeared to... More

Where Snark Can Do Some Good

A Politico satire eerily like the real thing

By Joel Meares   Aug 17, 2010 at 01:01 PM

Hats off to the very clever Roger Simon, Politico’s chief political columnist. He got me good this morning with this... More

Takeaways from Week One of the Petraeus Press Blitz

Four things we learned from the General this weekend

By Joel Meares   Aug 16, 2010 at 03:16 PM

The latest Petraeus media blitz began Sunday with NBC’s special edition of Meet The Press from Afghanistan. It continued today... More

AP Calls It: “Name-Calling is Winner This Campaign Season”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 16, 2010 at 03:02 PM

With no precincts reporting, the AP is projecting that name-calling has won the 2010 election. From a piece headlined "Insults... More

Statistician Says Obama’s Mosque Comments Not So Risky

Nate Silver praises a Fox News poll

By Joel Meares   Aug 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has an interesting take on Obama’s “risky” speech on the proposed community center and mosque near... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Lonnie Judy

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM

Before the year ends, the president’s fiscal commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More

Victory to the Wonks?

Political scientists saw Tuesday’s meme-shaking results coming

By Joel Meares   Aug 11, 2010 at 04:07 PM

The anti-incumbency meme hit a bit of a wall yesterday, according to those who’ve often been the ones pushing it... More

Food Stamps and Health

Let’s not forget the connection between the two

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 11, 2010 at 03:52 PM

It’s hardly surprising that the nation’s news media haven’t sent forth a flood of stories about how Congress has cut... More

Gibbs Gaffes Again, Tradition Continues

A look back at some choice press secretary faux pas

By Joel Meares   Aug 11, 2010 at 01:55 PM

Robert Gibbs had clearly come down with an acute case of “being human” when he spoke to The Hill’s Sam... More

The Senator in Full

The press must fight the impulse to whitewash Ted Stevens’s record

By Zachary Roth   Aug 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM

The Associated Press confirmed this afternoon that former Alaska senator Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash in his... More

Untangling the “Influence Web” (With a Click)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM

For your reading and reporting tool box, an addition: an influence detector, as Poligraft is described by its creator, the... More

Palin, Handel, Huckabee, and Deal

A brief primer on the Georgia primary runoff

By Joel Meares   Aug 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM

A quick scan of the blogosphere and you might think Sarah Palin was running against Mike Huckabee in today’s Georgia... More

Q & A: Christopher Keating, The Hartford Courant

“I would say that this year is the best political year in Connecticut in forty years.”

By Joel Meares   Aug 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM

Long Island-born political reporter Christopher Keating has been The Hartford Courant’s capitol bureau chief since 1995. He’s never been busier... More

The Medicare Sales Job Moves Along

More media skepticism needed

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 9, 2010 at 03:25 PM

In his radio message this weekend, the president focused on Medicare, trying as hard as he might to convince skeptical... More

Will the Shield Bill Become Law?

Despite WikiLeaks, reporter’s privilege has path to passage

By Clint Hendler   Aug 9, 2010 at 02:53 PM

On December 10, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send the Free Flow of Information Act for consideration before... More