NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents

Did anybody think to ask journalists?

By Joel Meares   May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM

The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More

WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece

Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM

By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More

A 60 Percent Osama Bump?

New approval rating raises a flap

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM

An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of... More

A Mining Disaster Follow-up Follows the Money

L.A. Times’s revealing report on inaction after the WV coal mine explosion

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM

A belated laurel to the Los Angeles Times team of Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger, and Doug Smith, of the paper’s... More

CJR Event: Science News and Government Transparency

Access denied

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM

Has the Obama administration lived up to its promise to make science more transparent and accessible to the public? An... More

Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech

More subdued libs are mostly pleased

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 01:11 PM

The president’s speech yesterday was notable to my ears for two things: the surprisingly direct attack on Rep. Paul... More

Halperin Sorry for Calling President a “Dick”; Still Suspended

By Joel Meares   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM

Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, TIME editor-at-large and Beltway Terminator Mark Halperin said the president acted like “kind... More

Obama’s Big Speech: Is Anyone in the Middle East Listening?

By Greg Marx   May 19, 2011 at 01:20 PM

As the president prepared to deliver his remarks on American policy in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” the lead... More

Obama’s Twitter Townhall

“Win win” for White House and Twitter, 140 characters for everyone else

By Erika Fry   Jul 6, 2011 at 04:47 PM

This summer Twitter brought us Anthony Weiner in his underpants; a Fox News-imposter who briefly hacked the President to death... More

On Monetary Policy and Presidential Politics

The next election may depend on the economy. So where are the efforts to fix it?

By Greg Marx   Jun 2, 2011 at 04:04 PM

In today’s New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum notes what is thus far one of the most salient facts of the... More

Pinning Down the President

Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 15, 2011 at 05:48 PM

In an interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night, it was apparent Steve Kroft was taking his questioning... More

Presidential “Outburst” Much Ado About Nothing

But Obama could have offered alternative critique

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM

The magical algorithms that rank the importance and popularity of the day’s political stories at the website Memeorandum had... More

Sunday Night Screenshots

How the news websites did bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 01:25 PM

This Monday morning, the headlines practically wrote themselves, and there was no question about which story would get top billing.... More

Uncivil Wars

The president should be more civil, whatever that means

By Joel Meares   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM

With Wednesday’s deficit speech and Thursday night’s leaked comments about “sneak”-ing through agendas and Paul Ryan not being “on... More

What a Year!

A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011

By Thomas Nagorski   Dec 30, 2011 at 02:41 PM

On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt.... More