January 2012 Archive

On Iran, the Times is Eyeballs-Deep in Muddy Water

By Michael McGehee: Thomas Jefferson, our third president, was a strong supporter of a free press. Its role was to keep the people informed and to ...

Kristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism

By Laura Agustín: Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for ...

Lessons from Iraqi Outrage Over US Drones

By Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. is continuing to fly surveillance drone aircraft over Iraq, prompting what The New York Times [yesterday described] as “outrage” among senior Iraqi officials and the ...

A Deadly Comeback: Polio in Afghanistan

By Catherine Wilkinson, MD: Polio forever seared two images in my mind.  That may account for my reaction to the story in the January 17th New York ...

David Brooks Doesn’t Want People to Focus on the 1 Percent

By Dean Baker: Even though the data on income show the top 1 percent of the population pulling away from everyone else, New York Times columnist David Brooks tells ...