Campaign Desk

Apples and Oranges; Grizzlies and Koalas

Why the Australian election is no preview for the midterms

By Joel Meares   Aug 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM

I’ve recently noticed a few articles hopping roo-like across the Net pushing the idea that the Australian federal election this... More

Weigel at WaPo, on Tea Party

By Joel Meares   Aug 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Good to see Slate’s David Weigel wearing his old WaPo jersey today, penning a Tea Party primer that breaks down... More

Consumer Advice for Retirement Savings

What was the Times trying to tell us?

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM

“Social Security Jitters? Better Prepare Now,” read the headline of a money story in the New York Times last Saturday.... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Going Against the Meme, Mortgage Madness, Summer Reading

By Holly Yeager   Aug 5, 2010 at 02:30 PM

Christopher Beam does a nice job at Slate, throwing cold water on the anti-incumbency meme that’s been dominating election coverage.... More

Prop 8: The Morning After the Strike-down

A look at some of the papers’ coverage of the California decision

By Joel Meares   Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM

A study from the September edition of The Social Science Journal comparing the coverage of gay marriage in the Chicago... More

Covering the $531,378 a Day Campaign

KQED’s John Myers talks Meg Whitman v. Jerry Brown

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM

On Monday, statewide candidates in California, including gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman (R) and Jerry Brown (D), filed campaign finance disclosure... More

Q & A: The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney

“It’s like the government is schizophrenic about what it wants to do to alleviate the jobs crisis.”

By Joel Meares   Aug 5, 2010 at 08:00 AM

The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney is becoming a prominent voice on the unemployment debate consuming the Capitol. Referred to by... More

Audit D.C. Notes: State Stats, Jobs Plan, Card Clues

By Holly Yeager   Aug 4, 2010 at 02:40 PM

USA Today does good work with its own state-by-state analysis of the stimulus program and the relationship between state unemployment... More

Washington as Baghdad

Inside George Packer’s excellent profile of the Senate

By Joel Meares   Aug 4, 2010 at 07:30 AM

When New Yorker staff writer George Packer started on the Washington beat about nine months ago, a “senior administration official”... More

The Peterson Dilemma

A funded fellow wrestles with a funder’s influence

By Holly Yeager   Aug 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM

A story in The Fiscal Times recently caught my eye. But even before I could decide whether to write about... More

Social Security in the Heartland Archive

A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Social Security in the Heartland” articles

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM

This is a complete archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Social Security in the Heartland" articles, listed in descending order. 12/22/10: Social... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM

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

Accessory to the Candidate

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 3, 2010 at 09:25 AM

In anticipation of Florida's primary day, August 24, the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday helped acquaint readers with the wives... More

Hurray for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For puncturing the secrecy around doctors’ mistakes

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 2, 2010 at 04:05 PM

It’s not often that editors let their reporters detail the steps they took to report a story, but a wonderfully... More

Q & A: Nir Rosen on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks

“I think undermining that war in any way possible is a good thing.”

By Joel Meares   Aug 2, 2010 at 03:30 PM

If anyone should be unsurprised by material in the WikiLeaks war logs dump, it’s reporter Nir Rosen—the New York-based freelance... More