As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 20...
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
Axelrod started out as a spectator in the boonies. Next thing you know, he's masterminding, and winning, one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history.
Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media
Once again, Brokaw's round table was a liberal-free zone. He concluded with the idiotic prediction game, John McLaughlin's gift to the game-show-as-phony-sophistication genre.
John McQuaid | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media
McCain's move doesn't make much logical sense coming on the heels of nearly six weeks of divisive culture war politics. But it amounts to an appeal to one of the most dearly-held big media assumptions.
John Ridley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
I have to tell you, it gets tiring running from show to show and from outlet to outlet trying to point out the media's own myopia let alone that of sensitive folk like Rush Limbaugh and Lynn Westmoreland.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home
We have yet to arrive at the point where we can teach our history in full -- warts and all. Studying "the bonds we share with our fellow citizens" demands we study where and why those bonds have broken down.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
David Broder is up in arms about gerrymandering, and has written all about it in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post today. As far as his take on ...
Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
David Broder postures as an independent-minded guardian of the DC press corps' conscience, while engaging in exactly the kind of intellectually corrupt Washington insider-dom he deplores.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.07.2008 | Home
In his AIPAC speech Obama chose the old politics, trying out neo-con a neo-con by declaring that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel. That's not going to work for the black change candidate.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
Two big names have accepted buyouts at the Washington Post today, with both veteran political columnist David Broder and sports columnist Tony Kornhei...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Washington Post columnist David Broder is not well liked on the lefty blogosphere, mainly because he is so in the tank for Bush and Karl Rove that his...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
The Democratic candidates for president have a "resume gap," warns David Broder in today's Washington Post. And up to a point - at least in the realm...
David Roberts | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media
if the career of David Broder is any indication, a pundit can stay cozy in there for a long, long time. I hope Revkin does not aspire to be the climate Broder.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Meeting Dick Cheney and George Bush halfway is not moderation, it is madness. It is radicalism. It is deeply unpopular. It is terrible politics and terrible policy.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 09.05.2007 | Home
Because some of us have a few neurons still firing, perhaps? In any case, this is the name of Andrew Glass' piece in The Politico. It will read like...
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Washington Post | David Boder | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics