I'd describe Politico's brand of journalism as banality, added to Scientology, multiplied by the spasmodic frenzy of a tween who hasn't learned to displace their unfulfilled erotic needs onto emo vampires.
Eric Alterman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
Crossposted with the Center for American Progress. Last week, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico reported that the White House planned on maki...
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Delaying implementation only allows the relentlessly increasing unemployment rate to push up the relentlessly increasing rate of the uninsured.
Heather Hurlburt | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
If you care about the people of the United States being engaged in our foreign policy, then you need to care what the faces of the people who represent our foreign policy look like.
Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
Apparently the future of journalism is politics. Can anyone remember this level of attention being paid for a handful of local elections? I can remember presidential elections that barely got this level of coverage.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
The breathless claim that Fox News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is bogus hype.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media
Politico's owner is launching a local DC news site that is expected to compete with the Washington Post, he told the staff Wednesday. The New Republi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media
Yesterday, the editors of the New York Times penned some tough, smart criticism of the White House's many "recent reminders of this dismaying retreat ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Over at the Politico this morning, Mike Allen has an "exclusive" on the public option's chances that basically differs from everything else everyone i...
Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.
Paul Taaffe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Resist the temptation to dismiss Bloomberg LP's acquisition of BusinessWeek as merely the latest move in the media consolidation. This deal is a game changer on a number of levels.
Frank Sharry | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
The DNC is up in arms at a brief piece in The Politico that linked Barack Obama to Roman Polanski through a scant $34,000 worth of donations that were...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
What gays and lesbians are looking for -- and will be marching for on Sunday -- is nothing special, and that's exactly the point. It's what every other American already has: equal treatment under the law
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
For the past few weeks Republicans have latched onto the $1,761 energy tax lie to oppose clean energy legislation.
Politico | PATRICK GAVIN | | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
Michael Smerconish has been on the radio for years in Philadelphia, but he shot to national recognition on Aug. 20 when he broadcast his interview wit...
Adam Luna | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
Ninety percent of Latino leaders believe that Lou Dobbs is having a hostile impact on Hispanics. We know Dobbs doesn't care about this, but does his network?
Michael Wolff | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
There are only two political stars in the country. One is president, the other is Sarah Palin.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
The line between evaluative reportage and frenzied press release stenography often gets blurred in Washington, and this blurring is a feature, not a b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Backers of President Obama's cornerstone financial regulatory reform proposal pushed back Monday against the Blue Dog Coalition, which is promoting a ...
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
When your position is based on ignoring science to prop up polluting industries -- as is the case for many Republican politicians -- you have little choice but to cite misleading statistics to make your point.
Michael Markarian | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
You might say that female legislators are more likely to stand up for the underdogs, so it's no surprise that there's a gender gap on animal protection, with women more likely to be involved in animal advocacy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Driving today's fearful discussion about czars this morning is a Politico article that 's a fine example of what it does best: provide a distillation of political scuttlebutt and press releases into a story.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
A broad number of polls indicate that progressive opinion, particularly in the area of health care, is much more profoundly aligned with popular opinion than the damp squib of a proposal currently being championed by the president.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media