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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...