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Why Is Obama Leaking Now?

By Dylan Matthews - Nov 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

The Obama presidential campaign was incredibly, frustratingly closed. There was very little access to the press, and consequently few leaks.
So it’s puzzling to me…

Really, New York Post?

By Saxon Baird - Nov 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

The Dow drops below the 8,000 mark, New York City Police are currently in a clash with the federal government over surveillance rules, Madonna and…

Nate Silver is a New-Media Superstar

By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

What’s especially striking about the Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com phenomenon is how indicative it is of the Internet Age. Before widespread readership of blogs, or…

Conservative Paranoia

By L. Russell Allen - Nov 12th, 2008 at 10:42 am

With a Democratic legislature and a Democratic executive that can appoint a liberal judiciary, some conservatives are fearful of the changes that are going to…

Long Live The American Conservative

By Daniel Strauss - Nov 11th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Following up on Ned’s post , a healthy democracy doesn’t need a National Review full of one-sided closeminded biased opinion, bereft of any kind of…

Open Up, Dammit!

By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 10th, 2008 at 10:00 am

Over at his New Yorker blog, George Packer makes a great point — if the Obama presidency is anything like the Obama campaign, then it’s…

The New York Times and ProPublica Want to Give You Access to Their Primary Sources

By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 4th, 2008 at 11:40 am

Via Boing Boing, the New York Times and ProPublica have a really interesting idea.
The project, which is called DocumentCloud, would let news organizations upload…

Slate Lets You Know

By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 29th, 2008 at 11:45 am

Slate has a quadrennial tradition of its contributors, editors, reporters and interns all declaring who they are voting for in the upcoming election. The results are never…

The Second Coming of The Christian Science Monitor

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

I wouldn’t say that I’m completely surprised, but I am a little stunned to hear that the Christian Science Monitor is cutting back from its…

If You Can’t Ask Tough Questions, You’re Not a Reporter

By Jesse Singal - Oct 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

TPM highlights a truly remarkable piece in today’s Los Angeles Times , one that Times staff writer Maeve Reston wrote because she doesn’t want anyone…

Fox News Apparently Takes This Whole “Fair and Balanced” Thing Seriously

By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 28th, 2008 at 9:32 am

Is the below video unintentionally hilarious or just sort of sad?

I don’t know, but I do know this: Megyn Kelly really, really, really wants…

Boys on the Bus: Apparently Not as Fun as You’d Think

By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am

Ezra Klein highlights what I think is the most interesting part of this fantastic GQ piece by former campaign reporter Michael Hastings (which Jesse also…

Michael Hastings’ Honesty Equals Our Entertainment

By Jesse Singal - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Michael Hastings’ article in GQ about his time as a Newsweek campaign reporter this election season is an absolute, slam-dunk, once-in-every-few-months type of must-read. I…

Can We Please Talk About Something Other Than Tradespeople Named Joseph?

By Emily Rutherford - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 am

I usually conceive of The New York Times as the sort of media outlet that doesn’t buy into idiotic memes, but yesterday’s sports section had…

You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry

By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm

This, if true, is intensely silly.
It was Tina Brown, formerly of Tatler and Vanity Fair, who brought [Seymour Hersh] to the New Yorker. ‘What’s-her-name……