Have the Rex Ryan pep talks on Hard Knocks fired up the Politico folks? Playbook put on its big boy pants and spent the weekend jacking people up. On Sunday Playbook ran an advertisement (with no sponsor attribution to parent company Albritton) to pop Comcast and NBC: ** ADVERTISEMENT: A …

James Fallows: How to Save the News

Megan McArdle: Hate Sells

Chris Good: Congressional Republicans Own YouTube

Yes, I’m gloomy. Not because I was so wedded to this bill, although I think it’s a decent enough start. But because if America cannot grapple with its deep and real problems after electing a new president with two majorities, then America’s problems are too great for Americans to tackle. …

Thanks to National Journal’s Under the Influence , we now know the Twitterview didn’t die John McCain and George Stephanopoulos Sara Jerome: What EPolitics Founder Learned From Obama When Epolitics.com founder Colin Delany describes himself, he sounds more like a surgeon than a blogger, devoted to "dissecting the craft of …

Throw your diamond up Chris Good. R-O-C …. Chris Good: Jay-Z, The Game, Global Hegemony, And Obama Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch takes an international relations look at the recent sniping at Jay-Z by LA-based rapper The Game (dis track here–warning: offensive and not safe for work). As hip-hop’s closest thing …

Dear Marc, There are a few things that we have never quite understood: Pets.com New Coke Pepsi Throwback And your latest site layout Why is your stuff relegated to a two-inch wide column on the left hand side of the page?  And does the Atlantic ad on the right side …

Michelle Rhee turns DC fame into national fame. She’s been on quite a media tear with a Washingtonian profile, an Atlantic Monthly profile and now the cover of Time Magazine. DCist‘s Kriston Capps tiptoes around calling DC’s Education Czar Michelle Rhee FamousDC: This cover illustrates a couple of interesting phenomenons: …

Earlier we posted a flattering picture of McFrankenstein, then a bit later, Marc Ambinder, a Harvard graduate and National Journal associate editor, posted the same thing.  In our opinion, that makes us wicked smart.

The Atlantic’s Mark Bowden goes behind the scenes of Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the Wall Street Journal and the analyzes the future of media as we know it. Print this out and read it on the metro ride home today. Mark Bowden: Mr. Murdoch Goes to War (a few highlights): …

Marc Ambinder: I’m A Twit(ter)