Outside the Beltway

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Antonin Scalia says “The only question in Bush v. Gore was whether the presidency would be decided by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court.”

Add journalism to the list of professions Americans don’t seem to have much confidence in.

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Another round of threats from North Korea.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Several newspapers are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury strip.

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.

Last night, we saw the beginning of the end of the Newt Gingrich campaign whether he realizes it or not.

Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

Ron Paul has a new explanation for those newsletters of his.

The capacity of some people to look the other way in the face of evil is astounding.

A new set of proposed Constitutional Amendments reveals that many people still don’t understand what Citizens United was about.

The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Penn State is cleaning house, including the legendary Joe Paterno.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.

And, the week closes out with another round of rumors about New Jersey’s Governor.

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.

The very question is rather dubious.

Like the rest of us, financial analysts across the globe are trying to figure out what the U.S. debt downgrade means.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, says fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger problem than Muslims. And, no, he’s not anti-religion.