Meaningful interactions between Congress and the press are almost a thing of the past.
journalism
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
How Journalism Should Be Like a Religion
In the age of Trump, journalists need to be religious zealots for the truth.
Posted inUncategorized
Reassigning Tim Russert
Getting Washington reporters to cover the things that count.
Posted inOctober 1999
Blaming the Messenger
Two new books hark back to a media “golden age” that never existed.
Posted inJune 1992
How Phil Donahue Came to Manage the ’92 Campaign
A loss of control: You could say it’s the thread running through the events of our time, but then the metaphor would be backwards. Rather, it’s the thread that’s unraveling through the events of our time. At the international level, the loss of control is generally good news. At the national level, the loss of […]
Posted inMarch 1989
I’ve Tilted at Windmills, and the Windmills Won
Six years ago, I was offered an unusual job at Newsweek that was at least partly the result of the efforts of the editor of this magazine. While I’m grateful to Charlie Peters for assisting my career advancement, the job he helped arrange also points up some practical failures associated with his view of how […]
Posted inMarch 1988
Two Cheers for Tom Wolf
He vanquishes the vanities of the rich, but lacks the courage to say what he admires.
Posted inMagazine
The King of Quotes
Norman Ornstein is officially a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Unofficially, he is the number-one professional analyst of Congress and, increasingly, of Washington in general.
Posted inMagazine
Today’s Best Journalism: Better Than Fiction
The sensation that Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent caused when it was published in 1959 can be taken as a sign of how hungry the nation was at that moment for some sense of the texture of modern Washington. Today it seems incredible that Advise and Consent could have made the earth move—it’s terribly dated, a routine procession of […]
