Campaign Desk

Audit D.C. Notes: Collender on reconciliation; WSJ on stalled jobs

By Holly Yeager   Mar 2, 2010 at 06:16 PM

--Stan Collender shows why he’s considered one of Washington’s brighter budget bulbs, with a Roll Call column that explains why... More

Lessons in Rahmology

The arc of a who’s-up, who’s-down story

By Holly Yeager   Mar 2, 2010 at 03:42 PM

The Washington Post gives White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the page-one attention that befits this big personality with... More

Differing Takes on Reconciliation

Finding the soundbites, and missing the meaning, in Kent Conrad’s remarks

By Greg Marx   Mar 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Stenography-as-reporting tends to get a bad name because it allows politicians to say false or misleading things without being held... More

The Cost of Living, Part III

Are the docs really going to drop their patients?

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM

Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More

Takeaway from the Summit

Decoding what was said during yesterday’s health care reform meeting

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 26, 2010 at 03:36 PM

For weeks leading up to the president’s health care summit yesterday, the media tossed around phrases like ‘kabuki dance,’ ‘dog-and-pony... More

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Rubio’s haircut isn’t—or shouldn’t be—the story

By Greg Marx   Feb 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM

On his way to a truly spectacular and ignominious flame-out, John Edwards seems to have left at least one political... More

A Few Sour Notes In National Journal’s Chamber Piece

By Holly Yeager   Feb 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM

National Journal goes in a good direction this week, with a long look at a powerful Washington institution that gets... More

The Cost of Living, Part II

A shout-out to the San Francisco Chronicle

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM

Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More

News Flash: Obama WILL Run for Reelection.

A CJR conversation on today’s Politico “exclusive”

By Clint Hendler and Greg Marx   Feb 24, 2010 at 03:05 PM

This morning, the front page of Politico announced an exclusive story. The headline? "W.H. privately plots 2012 campaign run." This... More

Audit D.C. Notes: A Meta, Mega-Krugman Profile; State Tax-Receipt Nosedive; Traffic Tix as Revenue Source? Maybe.

By Dean Starkman and Holly Yeager   Feb 23, 2010 at 07:04 PM

--Larrissa MacFarquhar’s 10,000-word New Yorker profile of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has kind of a meta-feel to it,... More

WSJ Ledes on the OPR Report

Elsewhere, confused language makes for confusing copy

By Clint Hendler   Feb 23, 2010 at 05:35 PM

When reading through the major papers’ coverage of the release of a series of documents surrounding the department’s investigation into... More

Digging Deep

Beyond day one on the torture ethics report

By Clint Hendler   Feb 23, 2010 at 02:03 PM

It can’t be fun. Late on a Friday, some important, extremely controversial, highly complicated, and very long government document drops.... More

CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting

And finds a cross-section of public opinion on health reform

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 22, 2010 at 04:37 PM

The polls continue to say that roughly half of Americans don’t support health reform. A Zogby poll finds that about... More

Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases

And the press finally takes note

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 22, 2010 at 02:40 PM

We were pleased to see HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discover that high rate increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross were... More

Marco Rubio and the Republican Elite

Wielding national political power without elite support is a pipe dream

By Greg Marx   Feb 19, 2010 at 01:06 PM

Marco Rubio seems to be the breakout star of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the yearly gathering of right-wing... More