NEW YORK — Veteran Washington hand Ian Cameron was appointed Monday as the producer in charge of ABC's Sunday political talk show "This Week wit...

To perform a public service, an interview ought to (in journalists' jargon) "advance the story" -- to move the candidate out of the zone of the known into the less known.

How can any official be kept accountable when journalists don't inquire into the sources of their errors?

140 characters sure add up — when you Twitter non-stop for about two hours while watching the Sunday shows. I didn't mean to do it, it just sort...

In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.

Stephanopoulos pushed the question of McCain's real estate onto Rudy Giuliani, who broke new ground in the annals of property assessment.

Tech advances -- and the new media they've made possible -- have had a game-changing effect on the political world. To explore this brave new world of broadband politics and political coverage, HuffPost is hosting a discussion during the Democratic National Convention.

If pundits want to note McCain's maverick moments, fine. He's had some. But it never ceases to amaze me (call me naïve) how this flattering label circulates uncorrected.

Washington fights sound petty even when they are deeply consequential, and neither journalists nor politicians have discovered how to make them sound as dramatic and consequential as they deserve to sound.

It was a delight to see Stephanopoulos nudge McCain to Iraq, getting at what is the most fundamental difference between the two candidates -- the grown-up test of independence from the Bush worldview.

On Meet the Press, as elsewhere, the Gramm "whiner" scandal dwindled into a flip-flop revelation when the real revelation was what McCain's long-time trusted economic buddy believes.

As Joe Biden might say, the shortest distance between Joe Lieberman and a microphone is a sentence consisting of three parts: a subject, a verb, and "Ready on Day One."