New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM

A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More

Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM

Ken Doctor has a good post for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab on why news organizations need to be ramping up... More

Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 27, 2012 at 01:40 AM

Looking at this Wall Street Journal graphic, you'd think Hollywood has been on some kind of epic roll the last... More

Audit Notes: Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget, The London Whale

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2012 at 06:14 PM

Paul Krugman hammers colleague David Brooks today, writing about unnamed commentators "pretending to be moderates or at any rate only... More

CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance

Bad math overstates government payouts

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM

(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More

Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt

Post column misleads on health care reform

By Greg Marx   Jun 13, 2011 at 02:17 PM

In his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal... More

Joe Lieberman and his Medicare Gift

The press needs to untie the bow—and quickly

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM

Leave it to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to speed along the process of making seniors on Medicare pay more for... More

Left, Right, and Center: A budget analysis roundup

A budget worth shellacking or perfect politics?

By Joel Meares   Feb 15, 2011 at 02:03 PM

We’ve all had a day or so to chew over President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget—a $3.7 trillion plan that... More

Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM

Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... More

Pawlenty’s Economic Fantasy

A mixed showing from the press as the GOP contender sets out his plan

By Greg Marx   Jun 9, 2011 at 02:24 PM

In his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has tried to cast himself as a... More

Politico’s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat

First stop in following the negotiations

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Is there anyone doing as good a job tracking federal budget negotiations as Politico’s David Rogers? The man’s been a... More

Q&A: New York Times Reporter Jackie Calmes

“The Internet has changed how you report on the budget”

By Joel Meares   Feb 16, 2011 at 04:12 PM

At 9:30 am last Monday, New York Times White House correspondent Jackie Calmes began poring through five fat volumes of... More

Ryan’s Whopper $4 Trillion

Where it will come from and what it might mean

By Joel Meares   Apr 4, 2011 at 01:29 PM

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) visited Fox News Sunday this weekend and confirmed last week’s reporting suggesting a... More

Some Clarity Amid Budget Proposal Confusion

Jon Ward breaks down the Obama and Ryan numbers

By Joel Meares   Apr 5, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Paul Ryan’s budget proposal—described as “radical” by some and hailed by others as if fresh from the summit of... More

The Journal Takes on Tim Pawlenty

A good start, but there’s more to be done

By Greg Marx   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:46 PM

It’s a common complaint around here that campaign coverage focuses too much on the horse race, and not enough on... More

The Government’s Shutting Down (Maybe)

But what does that mean?

By Joel Meares   Mar 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the White House and Democrats in Congress have come up with about... More

The History of Austerity

It’s grim—all the way back to Napoleon

By Felix Salmon   Feb 23, 2011 at 11:25 AM

One of the best aspects of being a journalist is that you get to talk at length to the most... More