May 2012 Archive

The Gatekeeper: Understanding the Essential Economic Role of the New York Times

New NYTX Video: The New York Times can credibly be considered the most influential newspaper in the United States, and arguably the world. The standard debate over its nature concerns its "bias," with some claiming that it is left wing or liberal and others arguing that it is right wing or conservative. This debate misses, and in fact obfuscates, its essential nature...

Austerity Can’t Be Just for Regular People

By Matt Taibbi: It didn’t take long to crank up the backlash against European voters. This is inevitable whenever a socialist wins a major election, but ...

The Greediness of Brain Drain

By Ralph Nader: The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity in ...

On the European Central Bank & German Views Re Greece and Southern Europe

By Dean Baker: This piece might wrongly lead readers to believe that the ECB could pursue policies that all the governments in the euro oppose.

Your Wednesday New York Times Op-Ed Report, II

By Marie Burns: As usual, Wednesday’s New York Times op-ed page offers fairly slim pickin’s. Maureen Dowd continues her all-expense-paid Tour de France, which she has devoted to studying ...

Our Mr. Brooks Is Movin’ on Up (with Cyclicalists!)

By Charles P. Pierce: Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by the New York Times columnist David Brooks, wondered if there'd be a doghouse with a view...

David Brooks, “Structuralist”

By Alex Pareene: The New York Times moderate says the welfare state is unsustainable, and buys himself a new $4 million home. David Brooks is everything that’s ...

New York Times Guild Members “Willing to Fight”

By Chris Spannos: Strife is gripping the New York Times newsroom and members of the Newspaper Guild are demanding that management settle on a contract. “We’re in ...