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Pressing Questions for Prime-time
The Nation: Top Stories —
... to presidential power by the Bush administration, but the public discussion has not advanced much since then. What, if anything, is his administration doing to achieve accountability for these undemocratic memos that operated as secret law in the U.S. for roughly seven years? If you have more questions, please leave them in the comments. Some White House correspondents might even be watching. - Update : In the Washington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas discusses our effort to open up the presidential press conferences in a new piece assessing WhiteHouse.Gov: Anxious to have ...
Needs Improvement? White House Falls Below Expectations on Transparency, Engagement
techPresident —
... time for the new presidency. And to the savvy eyes of at least some graders, it seems, ol' 44 and company simply aren't living up to their full potential. The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas arranges a panel of outside experts -- Craig "Craigslist" Newmark, Sunlight's Ellen Miller, the Next Right's Jon Henke, the Berkman Center's David Weinberger, and our own Andrew Rasiej -- to assess the current state of the WhiteHouse.gov site. (It might have been valuable to include at ...
Grading Whitehouse.gov
The Next Right —
... The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is doing "a monthly feature that invites five thinkers across the online political and cultural spectrum to grade President Obama's WhiteHouse.gov." Vargas was kind enough to include me in his panel, along with Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Andrew Rasiej (Personal Democracy Forum), Ellen Miller (Sunlight Foundation) and David Weinberger (Harvard Berkman Center). The first column went up yesterday. Read the whole thing to see the grades it was given. ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
... that currently escape most federal supervision"
Slow start for Congressional Office of Oxymoronics.
Death of a sales pitch?
Culture of corruption: DSCC will keep Madoff money.
U.S. and Israel should really "stop being hung up on prior Hamas recognition of Israel."
"If the United States follows the norm of recent crises, as it has until now, output may take four years to return to its pre-crisis level."
Grading WhiteHouse.gov.
"The idea of “private sector price discovery” ...
Grading Whitehouse.gov, Part 2
The Next Right —
... The group's average grade on first assessment in March was a C+, far from the mostly glowing early reviews of the Obama administration. As one of the graders summed up, Obama's WhiteHouse.gov "still has a long way to go to meet the expectations that the President himself set during the campaign." ...
