Media
It's the Economy, Stupid. And Guns, Too.
Toward an understanding of the rise of suicides in America
Toward an understanding of the rise of suicides in America.
Gus Johnson Won't Ruin Soccer
Americans aren't yet sold on the sport. The Fox broadcaster is just the salesman it needs.
Soccer fans call the sport, without irony, “The Beautiful Game.” Sportscaster Gus Johnson, by contrast, does not luxuriate in the beauty of any game. The 45-year-old Detroit native is known to American fans of football and basketball for catchphrases and ecstatic calls more befitting a fan than an announcer.
Amid all the expensive camerawork and sharp matching windbreakers on the major TV networks’ coverage of Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, the best dispatches largely came from local TV news. In the Times, Brian Stelter quoted John Welsh of KFOR, the NBC-affiliated TV station, eyeing the ruined landscape from his helicopter and repeating the word “gone” as he realized how many local landmarks had been leveled.
The Surge in Suicides Has Nothing to Do With Marriage or Religion
The data doesn't support Ross Douthat's argument
The data doesn't support Ross Douthat's argument.
Jay Carney's rough week was a blessing to one man: his boss.
Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster.
Big-Government Liberalism Is Not to Blame for These Scandals
The IRS case shows that bad laws can have conservative roots, too
The IRS case shows that bad laws can have conservative roots, too.
Feeling perhaps that columnist Paul Krugman hasn't made the point emphatically enough, The New York Times Monday published an op-ed shocker by two academics with the title, "How Austerity Kills." Kills? Yes, kills.
A brief history of media hyperbole.
Is the 'Chilling Effect' Real?
National-security reporters on the impact of federal scrutiny
National-security reporters on the impact of federal scrutiny.
