Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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The Washington Post's boneheaded conventional wisdom on Solyndra
The Washington Post is spouting the Very Serious Conventional Wisdom: government is a "crappy" venture capitalist that shouldn't be picking winners.
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Solyndra and the self-referential Beltway media cycle
Solyndra is being called a scandal even though there hasn't been any official wrongdoing established or charged. Blame cable news and the political press.
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Fake scalp, fake scandal: DOE official didn't resign ‘over Solyndra’
Politico blasted out this headline: "Silver resigns over Solyndra loan." Scandal! An administration in crisis! Dems in disarray! But it was fiction.
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Republican anti-EPA jihad, explained
National Journal's Ronald Brownstein has an excellent column on the unusual party discipline of House Republicans have displayed in recent votes against EPA regulations.
