February 2012 Archive

Fire Joe Nocera

By Marie Burns: The New York Times should fire columnist Joe Nocera. In his column today, titled “Two Cheers for the Settlement,” Nocera literally cheerleads the settlement state attorneys ...

The Preemptive Strike on Jodi Rudoren

By Stephen M. Walt: In our book on the Israel lobby, John Mearsheimer and I emphasized that it was “wrong — and objectionable — to argue that Jews ...

Corporate Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan

By Peter Hart: For years prominent corporate media pundits have told us that the world–and the media–would embrace a dramatic, non-violent Palestinian resistance movement. If only such a ...

Our Friend Anthony Shadid’s Stories

By Shiva Balaghi: I feel like I need to write the stories, he would say, or the stories will not get told. And so often Anthony ...

No, NYT, There’s Been No Expansion Of Government Benefits, No ‘Entitlement Society’

By Lawrence Mishel: There was a very interesting story on the front page of last Sunday's New York Times, “Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It,” detailing a range of views of people who have an anti-government political orientation yet depend heavily on government supports.