Romney, Sully, Steve Jobs and The Boss
By Steven Brill This is the first entry in a new regular column, “Stories I’d Like To See.” It’s the notebook of someone who still thinks like an editor but is over the thrill of managing a reporting...
View ArticleSpotlight on Bain, Obama’s billion, and immigration madness
1. Bain in the spotlight: Private equity firms like to be, uh, private. With the exception of mega-firms like Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, we rarely read about them, and even in those cases the ink is...
View ArticleRomney’s delegate math, BP and Bhopal, and spotlighting CEO pay
1. How does Mitt get over the top? This year the rules for the Republican nominating convention have been changed to tilt more toward awarding delegates proportionately rather than giving all the...
View ArticleCampaign questions, the world’s worst government agency, and medical lobbies
1. Mitt’s tax bracket: Note to television producers or editors about to do interviews with Mitt Romney on the campaign trail: The tax rate for the lower-middle class and middle class (joint filers...
View ArticleRomney’s ads, the Komen firestorm, and a Foxconn book
1. Tracking Romney’s ad buys: Look at the remaining Republican primary calendar dates and the candidates’ respective strengths and do the math: There are certain states where Rick Santorum and Newt...
View ArticleA hidden Gulf economy, Romney’s old taxes, and patent wars
1. An underground economy in the Gulf? I was interested to read these paragraphs in a recent New York Times story about the processing of claims being made by victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of...
View ArticlePinning Romney down on taxes
The press is missing a trick in continuing to ask Governor Romney only whether he’s going to release more than his most recent tax returns. That allows him to say either yes or no (for now, it’s no),...
View ArticleRomney’s tax audit, Aurora and risk, inside the IRS
1. What happened with Romney’s audit? On Sunday, Mitt Romney – while promising ABC he would “go back and check” to see if he had ever paid less than the 13.9 percent in income taxes he reported paying...
View ArticleHow would a woman “prove” rape to qualify for Romney’s abortion exemption?
In the wake of the Todd Akin firestorm, Mitt Romney and a flip-flopping Paul Ryan have emphasized that their anti-choice stance excludes rape. In a Romney administration, abortions would be outlawed...
View ArticleMore questions for Snowden and the GOP establishment takes on the 2016 primaries
By Steven Brill 1. Snowden questions NBC missed: In his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams last week, Edward Snowden tried to bolster his credentials this way: “I was trained as a spy in sort of the...
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