What Is The Wonk Room?
What Is The Wonk Room?
Today, ThinkProgress is launching a sister blog — The Wonk Room. To address the need for substantive dialogue and information, The Wonk Room is intended to be a rapid-response policy blog as well as a resource for in-depth policy analysis on four core issue areas: health care, economic mobility, national security, and climate change.
While the media often focuses an inordinate amount of coverage on the daily political horserace, less attention is paid to the deep philosophical and ideological differences between conservative and progressive policies. The Politico reports:
The site – which the center calls “the first-ever public policy rapid response blog of its kind” — is designed to bridge the shrillness of the presidential campaigns and the details of policy choices that will confront the winner.
The daily mission of this blog is to provide a substantive, focused, and relentless effort in each of these areas:
– Promoting progressive policy solutions on the four core issue areas
– Defending those progressive ideas from false attacks
– Defining the Bush record
– Critiquing the conservative approach
The ultimate goal of our effort is to create a mandate for progressive action in each of the four core policy areas.
The Wonk Room will combine the talents of individuals from unique backgrounds, joining former policy directors of presidential campaigns with policy analysts, established progressive bloggers, and skilled political researchers. (If you’re interested in working for the Wonk Room, we’re still hiring. Please email Faiz your resume at faiz@thinkprogress.org).
Please bookmark us and check back frequently!
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how nice, a rapid response truth squad.
thanks.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:20 amThis sounds awesome. Keep up the good work, Faiz et al!
March 17th, 2008 at 10:21 amThis is a fantastic idea. I sure do love some good policy discussion and I look forward to participating.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:47 amDon’t want to get my hopes up too quick, but this looks like a good idea.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:47 amCongratulations TP!!
Now we can get the kind of information and analysis that the MSM isn’t able to provide.
New media outshines old media consistently.
Thanks for being here for us!
RG
March 17th, 2008 at 10:52 amIf I could make one suggestion – it’d be nice to see some more scholarly sources for these discussions. Rather than the usual superficial talking head vs. talking head “debates” we usually see in the media, it’d be good to see the perspectives of non-think-tank economists and scientists and foreign policy analysts who can discuss policy with a bit more depth and technical detail.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:03 amAs a retired policy wonk I look forward to substance vice fluff.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:28 amI think “Regulation” should be an issue. The Bush administration has shown what happens when you destroy regulatory agencies and redirect their focus on corporate concerns intead of public concerns. Unbelievably, John McCain is stumping for MORE deregulation.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:52 amAlthough I disagree with your political views, I agree that this is a good concept. But could you come up with a better name? “The Wonk Room” sounds like a place that offers “happy endings.”
March 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm