Dear Mayor White- I have observed with real admiration your Senate campaign team’s facility with all things web.  It’s really quite impressive, as is the breadth of your early fundraising numbers.  Particularly, 1980 new contributors in Q3 bespeaks...

The NYT continues to do as much as anyone with data-driven stories.  Today on A1 was a feature about the rise and concomitant de-stigmatization of food stamp usage across the country.   But the interactive map on the NYT web site tells the stories...

My friend Alan Mutter has an annoying habit of actually analyzing data rather than waving his hands at it.  Recently, he did his trick on the latest numbers out of NAA, which remain dismal (16 straight quarters of decline).  The most breathtaking...

Richard Perez Pena writes in the NYT about the new news venture, begun by ex Tribune journalists.    The barely suppressed animus between the Tribune and the CNC staffers is understandable, especially given the long relationships involved, the...

In Commonweal, Andrew Bacevich asks, essentially, “why not Mexico instead of Afghanistan?”    A thought-provoking companion piece to David Loyn’s In Afghanistan:  200 Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation.