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Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan makes an excellent case that conservative ire over Barack Obama's visit with Hugo Chavez is misplaced. Here's the core of Kaplan's argument: The shockwaves over the handshake might best be explained as a hangover...
The main point of Michael Kinsley's anti-micropayments Times op-ed --"Two bucks per reader per month is not going to save newspapers"--is well taken, and worth considering if, like me, you've previously been intrigued by the pro-micropayments...
When Slate chronicled the affinities between Barack Obama and Pepsi last August, those connections may have been (in author James Ledbetter's words) "largely accidental." Not anymore. In case you missed it, Pepsi's doing its damndest...
If you've been reading about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's recent arrest, you've probably heard he's been indicted. Slate says so ; ditto the Washington Post , U.S. News and World Report , and many , many others. (Note: some of these...
Slate's generally excellent Jack Shafer today offers an impassioned defense of Matt Drudge's continued importance. Among his claims: If you could access only one home page for breaking news and chose Washingtonpost.com or CNN.com over the Drudge...
That's the conclusion of Politico's Roger Simon: The real problem for McCain is that Palin is running a separate--and scary--campaign that does not seem to be under anybody’s control. She storms around the country saying: “Our opponent ... is...
This Politico piece by Jonathan Martin, who's been covering the Republicans during the presidential campaign, is an absolute must-read. First off, his description of the anger he's been seeing on the trail is chilling: With McCain passing up the...
In which I ponder the pluses and minuses of the press's new pet technology.
Maybe you thought Barack Obama's fake presidential seal was just a stupid gaffe, kind of like Mitt Romney's podium screw-up back in 2006. But no! It's much, much more than that. Mickey Kaus, take it away : [T]he faux seal was a disaster not...
