Jaime Fuller

Anniversaries always prove a convenient shortcut for news organizations to create content, and we’ve all replied in kind to commemorating the year since Hurricane Sandy belted the East Coast. Climate change has unsurprisingly been a repeated refrain. Especially since our rapidly changing environment means that an upcoming line-up of similar storms is all but certain. […]

We’re a week out from Election Day, which means the local media markets in cities and states with consequential races will be saturated with 24/7 coverage from here on out. For those of us who don’t live in a place with a sexy campaign to obsess over, here’s the CliffNotes version of our off-season elections. […]

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy smashing the tri-state area, and many news outlets and locals are marking the occasion by looking atwhat’s still broken, and who saved New York and New Jersey from suffering even more than it did. After a fractious battle, Congress appropriated billions of dollars to help homeowners left […]

Kathleen Sebelius Not Kathleen Sebelius The Federal Government Obamacare Obama Too much love These contractors That “other” contractor Canada Lack of money Lack of time Procurement rules Bureaucracy Journalists Poor coordination Everything Lax campaign-finance laws Not having a Government Digital Service like the Brits Somebody else Who knows? And who can fix the website? Well, […]

We may be in an election off-year, but new voter-ID laws are still mucking up many a eligible citizen’s right to hit the polling booths. Texas’s new voter-ID law, which went into effect on Tuesday (a day after early voting began in the state), has inspired quite a bit of acrimony. The law might disenfranchise […]

A new report from The New York Times today sheds light on a crisis forgotten in the shadow of the shutdown: our long, tangled debate over what to do with Syria. (In case you need an update on the conflict, the BBC has an excellent primer.) It turns out that Obama’s misgivings about an airstrike […]

The Affordable Care Act’s debutante party has been somewhat of a disaster. Somehow, even the calculators on the website where people are supposed to sign up for the legislation’s health-care exchanges are broken. Calculators! In a Rose Garden address yesterday, Obama said no one was “madder than [him]” about his signature legislative achievement’s technical snafus, […]

The shutdown is over, and American politics is back to its usual state of stasis. Will Congress turn its head back toward passing comprehensive immigration reform, or did our two-week vacation kill it? It looks like everyone’s favorite House Republicans haven’t decided to stop using the only strategy in their toolbox. “I know the president […]

We all knew it was coming. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a political battle in possession of much media attention must be in want of presidential election analysis. Even if said election is still years away. As CNN says, “The vote to end the shutdown took place in October 2013, but it may […]

Late last night, our 16-day long national nightmare came to a close. Furloughed workers are back to the grind, national parks re-opened, and we can once again see baby pandas all hours of the day. There is much consensus that Republicans will hurt most in the two-week standoff’s aftermath. The polling supports that frame. “Does […]