1st in a series | The Iowa caucuses: Hope and hokum in the heartland COMMENTARY It’s crisis time: Millions may pick their presidential preferences very early next year--before the Iowa caucuses and thus without the wisdom of a handful of Iowans to guide them. Will the media be able to handle that?

2nd in a series | By dropping out, McCain, Giuliani bring a little sanity to Iowa 'straw poll' COMMENTARY Pity the poor pollsters working in Iowa, and analysts trying to make sense of their numbers. Romney leads in one Iowa poll but is third in another; Clinton leads in one and is last in another.

The Diane Rehm Show | Three DC journalists on the state of investigative reporting
COMMENTARY
Walter Pincus, John Walcott and David Corn think the Washington press corps is being manipulated by administration officials who have become supremely adept at dominating the news agenda. They discussed that and other challenges facing investigative journalism on WAMU, a Washington, DC, National Public Radio station.

Health care industries cited | Why trust members of Congress to deal with groups that fund them?
COMMENTARY
You can call the U.S. campaign financing system bribery or you can call it extortion; both describe a system that has been broken for many years with few signs of Congressional movement to fix it or concern by the press.

View from Baghdad | A soldier in Iraq asks in despair: Why are we here?
COMMENTARY
After watching his roommate fatally wounded in a roadside bombing, an Army private wonders why the lives of good men are being lost when the Iraqis pose no threat to us and don't want us there.

Another Bush legacy | As Medicare goes private, the press just stands by
COMMENTARY
The government sounds like the voice of the insurance industry as it hucksters older Americans into joining ‘Medicare Advantage,’ a means of unraveling the popular, effective program. Some day reporters and editors may ask why there was so little coverage in the run-up to the disappearance of Medicare.

The overseas press | Cronyism was only one of the complaints about Wolfowitz
COMMENTARY
The overseas press: Europeans pushed to remove Wolfowitz after the nepotism story broke in April, and there’s mostly glee at his departure.

The Dow Jones takeover | Ian Johnson on why the Bancrofts should turn down Murdoch COMMENTARY The Wall Street Journal reporter, currently a Nieman fellow who is actively opposing the proposed Dow Jones takeover, asks what might come first for Murdoch: news-gathering integrity or new revenue-enhancing schemes? No points for the correct answer.

The overseas press | McCain is having image problems internationally
COMMENTARY
Der Spiegel sees GOP candidates as a ‘pathetic assemblage’ of 10 old white men who exhaust themselves with slogans and platitudes. Spiegel and other news organizations, all more familiar with McCain than the other candidates, wonder what became of the ‘Straight Talk Express.’

Odom on the radio | 'The Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL'
COMMENTARY| April 118, 2007
Retired Gen. William Odom, who ran the National Security Agency under President Reagan, was an unusual choice to deliver the weekly Democratic radio adddress. His message: No effective new strategy can be devised for the United States until it begins withdrawing its forces from Iraq.

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