March 2012 Archive

The NYT Editorial Board Flunks Housing and the Economy 101

By Dean Baker: The NYT’s editorial on housing policy makes it sound like it expects the Nasdaq to return to its 2000 peak of 5000. The NYT wants ...

What I Thought about While Reading Today’s New York Times Op-Ed Page

By Marie Burns: In his New York Times op-ed “Conversation” with Gail Collins, David Brooks makes an extraordinary claim. (Actually, he makes several, but we’ll stick to the ...

Joe Nocera: Wrong About Environmental Activism

By Mark Engler: Can you be an environmentalist and support things like the Keystone XL pipeline and hydraulic fracking? Not likely, but it’s conceivable. Can you ...

The Iran Non-Debate, Continued…

By Peter Hart: Glenn Greenwald wrote recently of the extraordinarily limited media debate on Iran, which seems to consist of U.S. and Israeli officials making threats–attack now or ...

Friedman Warns War Could Hurt American Jews

By Philip Weiss: This is the tipping point. And it all happened in the last 24 hours. Why? Because AIPAC overplayed its hand. Mr Conventional Wisdom, ...

The Right-Wing Effort to Smear Obama and Liberals as ‘Anti-Israel’

By Ben Adler: New York Times readers found an unpleasant surprise on page A11 [last] Thursday. A full page advertisement by the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) attacked the ...