Is Biden’s Supreme Court answer meant to bring something else up in voters’ minds?

Gwen picks up where The Hill left off, and asks if the VP’s office is in the Executive branch or the Legislative branch. Palin either doesn’t know what she actually thinks about this, or doesn’t want to say. And Gwen didn’t push twice to find out. Which is too bad. But it’s great that Ifill […]

Can we ask why, exactly, McCain knows how to win a war? And what wars he’s won in the past? And how does he square this ‘win’ talk with the reported wishes of Gen. Petraeus (one of the three wisest men McCain says he knows) that his staffers not use that kind of language.

Who doesn’t love a Voltaire quote? Here’s one of my favorites: …the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. So what would Voltaire make of “Morning Joe: Election Extra,” running on MSNBC as I type? Joe Scarborough isn’t participating. And it’s 2pm in MSNBC’s New York studios. I guess it is […]

Give John McCain credit for taking the time to meet with The Des Moines Register‘s editorial board. It may not be the friendliest territory, given that they endorsed Kerry, Gore, and Clinton in the last three presidential races. The paper has released short videos of their conversation, which you can find via search at the […]

When is the last time that you can remember that the entire front page of The New York Times was devoted to a single story? It’s another signal of how seriously the crisis–and the bill’s failure–is being taken. Also worth noting is the appearance of a service journalism Q&A (“‘Is My Money Safe?’ and Other […]

Timesologist Gabriel Sherman has a good catch from over the weekend. In a Times book review of Bob Woodward’s The War Within, New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson admits that she “failed” to push hard enough for the publication of a major WMD-claim doubting piece by James Risen in the run up to the […]

Grab ’em while they’re hot. Today’s issue of The New York Sun will be the last. The Sun may not have always been my cup of tea, but newspaper shutdowns are sad for all the things they represent–the end of an era, the laid-off reporters, the loss of a civic voice, and these days, perhaps […]

Why would the Times run quotes slamming its own work?

Time to fact-check Boehner’s bailout explanation