Jon Margolis, former chief political reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the author of "The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964," lives in northeastern Vermont, where he writes and teaches.

• A Slippery Slope?
  May 11, 2010

• Queen of Queens and the News of New York
  April 6, 2010

• The Lives of the Party
  March 17, 2010

• Journalists Love Polls
  March 4, 2010

• Village People
  Febraury 16, 2010

• You talkin' to us, Mr. President?
  Febraury 2, 2010

• The Color of Money
  January 19, 2010

• Probing Behind the Process
  January 12, 2010

• Reason and Its Discontents
  September 15, 2009

• The Shape of the World August 19, 2009

• Pulp Fiction
  August 10, 2009

• Ignorance is Bliss - Unless You're a Reporter, And Then It's Infuriating
  March 9, 2009

• When Real News Didn't Come to Me, I Decided to Go Get It Myself
  Feb. 23, 2009

• TV Exhausts, Athletics Bleed. Movies Cost. Journalists, Might As Well Read.
  Jan. 12, 2009

• Shaky Ethics: There's Iffy, There's Shameful, Then There's NBC News
  Dec. 9, 2008

• Chill, Baby, Chill: The Campaign is Over, But We Keep Talking
  Nov. 24, 2008

• Covering Political Campaigns: Maybe Someday, We'll Get It Right
  Nov. 3, 2008

• Social Security Doomed! Not True, But It Is a Bad Master Narrative
  Oct. 15, 2008

• Welcome to My Small Town, a Place Political Types Really Should Visit
  Sept. 30, 2008

• Post-Modern Campaign Needs Reporters Rooted in the Now
  Sept. 16, 2008

• The Quaintness of Fact-Checking in the Blogosphere
  Sept. 2, 2008

• For a Look at Election Coverage, Head to the Shallow End of the Pool
  Aug. 19, 2008

• Behind Politicians is the Process, Where Principles Confront Reality
  Aug. 6, 2008

• You Want to Label Journalists? Can You Come Up with 52,000 Labels?
  July 21, 2008
  

• The Wesley Clark Flappette: How the Media Picked a Fake Fight
  July 1, 2008

• Follow the Money: Great Advice for Hotel Break-Ins and Policy Decisions
  June 24, 2008

• It's Also the War, Stupid
  June 9, 2008

• Watch Out, It's a Media Stampede
  

• Do You Know Your Stuff?
  May 13, 2008

• 'Elite' is not a Dirty Word
  April 29, 2008
  
• Bam! Zap! Pow! Really?
  April 2, 2008

• Dial R for Reality
  March  19, 2008

• Sensibilities, Schmensibilities
  March 4, 2008

• Broken Windows and Journalism
  February 19, 2008

• Love and Hate on the Campaign Trail
  February 5, 2008

• Hissy Fitting Your Way to the White House
  January 23, 2008

• Ironic Start to the Democratic Process
  January 4, 2008