Like a lot of people, the foundation of my understanding of how a bill becomes a law was shaped by the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon "I'm Just A Bill", whi...

The media must capture the full panoply of presidential emo and put it on their teevees, for the ratings! And the best part of it is that no amount of emotion, of raging, of garment rending, will ever be enough.

Sally Quinn, American journalist, was for a long while best known for her Washington Post column, "The Party." From that perch, she offered Washingto...

When we last left reporter Mac McClelland, she was in the Gulf Coast region, caught up in the surreal tangle of media roadblocks that were being erected by British Petroleum to keep reporters at bay. How have things done since then?

In less than an hour, the next chapter for Newsweek will begin to unfold, as interested bidders are expected to make their initial offer for a magazin...

Unless you're comatose or have found another pleasant way of avoiding the subject, you're probably aware that for the past week or so the political media has been blissing out to a pointless discussion of whether or not President Barack Obama has shown sufficient emotion over the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Is it possible to know what actual humans think about the notion that the oil spill needs to be confronted with lots of feelings?

Duin's sin, however, was to tell the Washington Post's Ian Shapira that the Times newsroom has basically succumbed to a terrifyingly Hobbesean level of disarray.

You might have heard about how many of the beaches in America may soon be, or already are, blanketed with oil and tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Well, fret not. Unnamed "experts" are saying that it's totally safe!

If your entire exposure to the recently-released jobs report has come in the form of breaking news alerts to your inbox, you may be only aware of the ...

Are you an undocumented immigrant that wants to pursue a path to citizenship by contributing your services to help America? You may have already planned to head down to the Gulf region. You know what, though? Don't do that!

This is just the worst story in the world. We're talking about a group of adults who have decided to send a stirring message to their students and the world: when a bunch of mentally deranged adults threaten a bunch of children, the best thing to do is to accede to their psychotic, racist "demands." Seriously, educators of Prescott, Arizona, when some creep demands you whiten the faces of your own students on a mural, the correct response is to say, "No, we will not be doing anything of the sort."

Hello and good morrow and welcome to this week's edition of your Sunday morning liveblog of what poet laureate Ke$ha called "Blah Blah Blah," only about politics.

I'm loving this piece from Chris Beam in Slate entitled "The Only Politics Article You'll Ever Have To Read." It's a rather brilliant and hilarious plumbing of the puddle-deep political tropes that the political media reflexively dials up.