Posts by Allison Silver

TWI’s Laura McGann, our temporary Anchorage bureau chief, just posted an enlightening piece about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Though the GOP vice-presidential nominee repeatedly calls herself “working class” and talks about her familiarity with its problems, her policies have been just the opposite.
Laura tracks four major issues where Palin is not exactly a friend of the [...]

Today, TWI rolled out some design changes. We are trying to make the site clearer and cleaner. We know we are throwing a lot of information at you all at once, and we want to make it as easy as possible to access it. The ideas may be complicated, but the design shouldn’t be. We [...]

When you see a great movie, it can stop you in your tracks. It makes your day suddenly brighter. When you see a great movie that also happens to be a huge success — I also tend to wonder, why? What about it works for so many people?
This happened when I saw ‘Wall-E” this weekend. [...]

With the blog post below, TWI is delighted to welcome its newest reporter — Laura McGann. Well, sort of new, since she is the managing editor of this site and already vital to its workings. But she missed writing — and certainly has a knack for it, as we all saw with her stellar work [...]

This morning we ran a piece from our finance reporter Mary Kane on how the Bear Stearns deal struck a nerve with housing advocates who have been calling for more oversight of investment banks selling risky mortgage products. And now today Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. indicates that investment banks will have to begin [...]

<p>When the subject is scandal, you think you&rsquo;ve seen it all. But you haven&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s one thing I&rsquo;ve learned. So, beyond the basic reporting on the scandal that enveloped New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer &ndash; led by that quintessential tabloid, The New York Times &ndash; there are many ways to think about this. TWI has [...]

<p>We’re still in Beta mode here at The Washington Independent — there are a lot of kinks in our system yet to be ironed out. But it seemed time to post a more accurate <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/about/about-us">&quot;About Us&quot; </a>on our site. So we have. We wanted to let you know who we are and what we [...]

<p>Hello, my name is Allison Silver. I’m the editor of <em>The Washington Independent</em>. I’ve been involved in analysis and commentary in journalism since my first real job in media right out of college — when I was a researcher for the political columnist Tom Wicker of <em>The New York Times</em>. Then I went to <em>The [...]