Meet the first two African American women in the White House press corps Excerpts from Alice Dunnigan's Alone atop the Hill and James McGrath Morris' Eye on the Struggle about Ethel Payne February 10, 2015 By The Editors
Failures of Vision September 21, 2011 By Michael Canyon Meyer Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination
Tracing the Roots of Modern Conservatism September 14, 2011 By Jordan Michael Smith Remembering the legacies of Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft
Call Northside 777 (1948) September 9, 2011 By Brent Cunningham Real journalism is too boring for the movies
The Parallax View (1974) September 1, 2011 By Erika Fry (Sometimes) Good Guys Finish Last: Pakula’s sober counterpoint to All The President’s Men
Ace in the Hole (1951) August 12, 2011 By Ryan Chittum What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal
Searching for D.B. Cooper August 10, 2011 By Jordan Michael Smith Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit
Your Summer Movie Picks July 29, 2011 By Victoria Rau Journalism-themed films recommended by CJR’s readers
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) July 8, 2011 By Joel Meares A group of hollow career fetishists and a moralizing dwarf
Q&A: Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington July 7, 2011 By Michael Canyon Meyer “The ultimate truth about war is that you are guaranteed to lose your brothers.”