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A gutsy health reform piece from Colorado Public Radio

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 7, 2010 at 04:27 PM

Eric Whitney, Colorado Public Radio’s health reporter, did a good job recently on a story that more and more in... More

A Risky Time for Rep. Rangel?

Times, Politico differ on whether longtime pol is in peril

By Greg Marx   Jun 7, 2010 at 03:32 PM

There's a pair of dueling articles out today about the political fortunes of Charlie Rangel, one in Politico and the... More

Those Who Play Spray Together…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 7, 2010 at 01:46 PM

What do you get when you bring together a water slide, Wolf Blitzer (among other journalists), water guns, and Rahmbo... More

Ending “Lame” Data

Aneesh Chopra gives an update on the Open Government Directive

By Clint Hendler   Jun 4, 2010 at 02:01 PM

This morning, Aneesh Chopra, who as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer was charged with the development of the Obama... More

USAT vs. the Job-Training Myth

By Holly Yeager   Jun 4, 2010 at 12:41 PM

USA Today does good work on the unemployment beat, looking at the promise of job training—and the disappointment that often... More

A Conversation with KQED’s Sarah Varney

How do you keep a story fresh?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM

Now that the great health care reform effort is over—or just beginning, depending on your point of view—the media face... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Who’s Unemployed, What’s Obama Saying, Where’s Washingtonpost.com’s Congress News?

By Holly Yeager   Jun 3, 2010 at 04:30 PM

The long-term unemployment scene just keeps getting worse, and The Wall Street Journal is good to highlight the problem: The... More

Ellsberg and Assange

America’s most famous leaker meets a WikiLeaks founder

By Clint Hendler   Jun 3, 2010 at 02:23 PM

It was a meeting across generations and technology. Daniel Ellsberg, who made his name nearly forty years ago by providing... More

WaPo Crunches Leadership PAC Numbers

By Holly Yeager   Jun 2, 2010 at 02:34 PM

The Washington Post shines a light on an increasingly important fixture in Washington’s money and politics scene, the leadership PAC.... More

With Graduation Series, NPR’s Anecdotes Tell Only Part of the Story

By Holly Yeager   Jun 2, 2010 at 01:18 PM

NPR is marking graduation season with a series on recent grads and “the frustrations and fears they face as they... More

Another Take on the Times’s Memphis Piece

And the Social Security connection

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 2, 2010 at 11:10 AM

The New York Times’s excellent piece Sunday—already praised by our Holly Yeager—ended with an unsettling conclusion: Blacks in Memphis are... More

Audit D.C. Notes: WaPo on the Debt Dilemma, CAP Previews the FinReg Conference, Rachman on Happy Warriors, Etc.

By Holly Yeager   Jun 1, 2010 at 04:01 PM

The Washington Post does well today with a nice plain-English look at a contemporary conundrum: The U.S. government debt is... More

Sequestered in Memphis

The NYT does strong reporting on blacks’ vanishing gains

By Holly Yeager   Jun 1, 2010 at 01:38 PM

The New York Times continues its excellent series on The New Poor with a look at Memphis, and the socioeconomic... More

Meet the “Shadow Congress”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM

TPM's Zachary Roth (formerly of CJR) and Justin Elliott have put together an interactive map of the "Shadow Congress," the... More

What Congress Giveth, It Also Taketh Away

Farewell, COBRA extensions?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 1, 2010 at 08:53 AM

Much of the health news coverage of late has tracked the topics that administration officials, notably HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,... More