Are you watching the Amanda Knox verdict?

I wasn't , but... now, I am. It's live here .

"The country I come from is called the Midwest....."

"With God On Our Side" is a great, if over-familiar Dylan song, but I love this cover version by Bon Iver, performed last week in...

"Just when we had Rick Perry on the ropes, WaPo has to go and give his candidacy new life by creating a Perry vs. Liberal MSM controversy. "

"GOP primary voters don’t like being told they have 'no heart' — but they don’t like the press trying to take a Republican out ...

"Washington Post editor goes hunting up at 'Redskinsrock.'"

Meade emails, linking here . ( Background .)

What NPR's new CEO "would really like to see is depoliticizing NPR a little bit, so that it's not caught in those [political] cross hairs."

NPR's new leader, Gary E. Knell, comes from the world of children's television — "Sesame Street" and so forth. That's...

"If everybody could see this, it would make people feel so good about this branch of government and how it’s operating."

Kenneth W. Starr —  former federal judge, Solicitor General and independent counsel — quotes Justice Elena Kagan in a NYT op-ed arguing — a...

The Supreme Court begins its new term — "widely expected to be one of the most exciting and important Terms in recent memory."

That prediction of thrills and spills comes from Joshua Matz at SCOTUSblog , who links to lots of the mainstream press previews. I'll re...