My new column at Columbia Journalism Review lauds the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert for his unusual approach to covering politics, which draws far more deeply on political science than any other reporter working today. Here’s how it begins: One of the most encouraging trends in journalism over the past few years has been the tentative

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My new column at Columbia Journalism Review discusses the problem of fact-checkers leaving the realm of verifiable evidence and weighing in on semantics and political process issues. Here’s how it begins: What, exactly, is a “serious” plan to resolve the budget impasse in Congress? It’s not clear how to define adjectives like this, but that

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