Campaign Desk

A Times Profile of Bernanke is Too-Decorous By Half

By Holly Yeager   May 17, 2010 at 02:05 PM

The New York Times put Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke front and center on Sunday. But in this long, long profile,... More

NYT vs. NYT on the Big Fat Greek Question

By Holly Yeager   May 14, 2010 at 07:10 PM

It’s New York Times columnist vs. New York Times columnist, again. Back in April, it was Paul Krugman and Andrew... More

License to Kill, Part III

Times takes note: Al-Awlaki standard makes some ‘uneasy’

By Greg Marx   May 14, 2010 at 02:55 PM

The legal questions surrounding the Obama administration’s decision to authorize the extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen accused... More

Deploying Journalism on Unemployment

By Holly Yeager   May 13, 2010 at 03:09 PM

The New York Times does good reporting today on an under-examined bit of the unemployment story: those many jobs lost... More

Following Kagan’s Paper Trail

Meet the gatekeeping Presidential Records Act

By Clint Hendler   May 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM

When John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2005, journalists touched down at the Ronald Regan Presidential Library... More

Politico: ‘Kagan’s Not Gay’ Story Not a Hard Call

A straightforward response to persistent online speculation

By Greg Marx   May 13, 2010 at 11:07 AM

As speculation about Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation has circulated on the Internet in the wake of her nomination to the... More

California Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know

Electability concerns, another campaign that’s sucking up the oxygen, and the month-long election

By Greg Marx   May 12, 2010 at 09:42 AM

If it’s still the case that new trends start in California, the state’s 2010 Senate election may really be one... More

Kentucky Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know

Nasty fights, a kingmaker challenged, and class warfare

By Clint Hendler   May 10, 2010 at 04:43 PM

Joe Gerth is a political reporter and columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s largest paper. The Louisville native and resident... More

WaPo Does Well on Payday Lenders Pushing for Protection

By Holly Yeager   May 10, 2010 at 01:40 PM

The Washington Post does a nice job of highlighting just how worried payday lenders and check cashers are about the... More

Lindsey Graham: Maybe Not Such a Maverick, Either

An attempt to define the “M” word with some serious math

By Greg Marx   May 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM

Late last week, there was a fair bit of online chatter (see here, here, here, and here) about an unlikely... More

Pennsylvania Senate (and Governor’s) Race: Three Things You Oughta Know

Family campaigns, a “way of sharing,” and Sodom on the Schuylkill

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM

With the 2010 midterm elections looming on the horizon—and some primaries rapidly approaching—Campaign Desk will soon be devoting more attention... More

Warning: Trans-Atlantic Tensions Ahead

By Holly Yeager   May 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM

There’s been a small, but sharp, undercurrent of trans-Atlantic tension in this week’s coverage of the Greek debt crisis. Judging... More

He Said-She Said Victim

By Holly Yeager   May 5, 2010 at 02:19 PM

After a few weeks of news coverage of Republican complaints that the financial reform legislation moving through Congress would permit... More

Everyone Knows the Troubles They’ve Seen

The press pays attention to WellPoint

By Trudy Lieberman   May 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM

If any group can claim responsibility for breaking the logjam on health reform, you might say it was WellPoint. Just... More

Arkansas Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know

A tough campaign, potential runoffs, and all eyes on the Dems

By Greg Marx   May 5, 2010 at 06:00 AM

With the 2010 midterm elections looming on the horizon—and some primaries rapidly approaching—Campaign Desk will soon be devoting more attention... More