February 2012 Archive

Friedman’s Choice – How Great Would It Be?

By Marie Burns: Today Tom Friedman revealed his master plan. He has been hatching it for years, revisiting ad nauseum two of his favorite themes: a ...

Memo to New York Times: The Spirit of Gandhi is Alive in Palestine

By David Cronin: Myar first experienced tear gas when she was one month old. Now she is seven. She has witnessed so much brutality in her ...

Iran: Here We Go Again

By Geov Parrish: In 2004, after a year of ferocious criticism, the New York Times published a famous mea culpa, apologizing, sort of, for its relentlessly misleading cheerleading of ...

David Brooks: “I have heard of Jeremy Lin”

By Alex Pareene: David Brooks had to write a column about something, and his deadline was fast approaching, so he glanced at the sports page and saw ...