Rick Santorum tells press: Stop making me talk about contraception?
You may have heard that Brian Lamb, founder and longtime CEO of C-SPAN is retiring. I sat down for an hourlong interview with him a couple months ago. And he was just the (positive) way you’d imagine him from watching him on TV: courtly, very unfull of himself, genuine but probing in his questions. I came away thinking: wow, what an amazing guy. And I had one word in my mind: facts. Facts. You can’t have a better North Star. Our David Taintor spoke to him about the changed media landscape over the 34 years C-SPAN has been on the air.
Harvard grad Mitt Romney bashed the “faculty lounge at Harvard” yesterday, favorably cites Harvard prof today.
The news coverage of the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children, is now consumed by the details of the American soldier who allegedly committed the crime. His life; his service record; every detail of his existence is being pored over by the press, that the world may better understand what may have brought him to commit so horrific an act. Read More
Democrats tell House Republicans, Don’t expect any cover from us on privatizing Medicare.
New survey numbers from Pew show the explosion in the consumption of news via mobile devices.
Why Texas could be about to bring down the Voting Rights Act itself.
For the weightiness of the legal issues and their political impact, the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care reform law will probably rank only behind Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore as the most consequential cases of the last 50 years. For sheer legal and political drama, next week’s unprecedented three days of oral arguments may rival the high theater of Bush v. Gore and will firmly place the Roberts Court at the center of the country’s most contentious domestic political issue apart from abortion (though the echoes of the abortion wars can be clearly heard throughout this case).
All this week our team will be previewing the major legal issues the court is considering in the HCR cases. Our lead reporter, Brian Beutler, has been following every twist and turn of the health care reform battle since 2009, and Sahil Kapur has deep knowledge of the policy questions at stake. If you really want to understand what is happening, I urge you to read their stuff. Sahil kicks things off this week.
Santorum website: Obama Justice Department “seems to favor pornographers over children and families.”