Perhaps it’s time to narrow the gulf between the business and the general-interest press

All the Bush Doctrine smugness misses the point

NYT blogger Judith Warner has a great post up today: a description of her experiences communing with other mothers at a McCain/Palin rally in Virginia. Warner had expected, she writes, to be amused by the spectacle of red-garbed Palin Moms—”I figured funny things were bound to befall us in Palin-Land”—but, instead, she found herself moved […]

Before he was Michael Scott and Andy Stitzer, Steve Carell was a Daily Show “political correspondent.” Well, the HuffPo’s Rachel Sklar has unearthed a classic and brilliant clip, from John McCain’s prior White House run, in which Carell interviews The Maverick aboard the Straight Talk Express. Hilarity, unsurprisingly, ensues. Sklar has also found a New […]

The Times summarized Charlie Gibson’s role in last night’s Round 1 of the Sarah Palin interview thusly: “The interview was hardly gentle, as Mr. Gibson pressed Ms. Palin for direct answers to some of the complicated foreign policy and national security issues facing the next administration.” Now, here’s Howard Kurtz: “Anyone who said that Charlie […]

Perhaps we could put politics aside on other days, too

Without further comment, the lede of Begala’s HuffPo article about McCain, Palin, the truth, the media, and the relationship between the four of them: If John McCain and Sarah Palin were to say the moon was made of green cheese, we can be certain that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would pounce on it, and […]

In which we all get dirty

Belated kudos to Slate, which last week added to its arsenal of interest-focused blogs–the XX Factor for women’s issues, Convictions for legal issues, Human Nature for psychology and sociology–with Schoolhouse Rock, an education-related blog. SR is penned by Paul Tough, a New York Times Magazine editor who covers education issues for the publication; he’s written […]

Don’t you feel like there’s just not enough spin in the media? Like you’d prefer to hear more voices, when it comes to political analysis, that have an obvious stake in our elections’ outcomes? Like there should be more professional campaign operatives out there parsing the political landscape on behalf of the American public? If […]