Is the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike the beginning of the Palestinian Spring? By Richard Falk: Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,500 ...
By Michael McGehee: It didn't take long for sensible people to fall all over themselves with praise for President Obama today. According to today's New York Times Page One story, "Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage, Taking Stand On Charged Social Issue"...
Belén Fernández: In the first chapter of his bestseller on globalization, The World Is Flat, three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times Thomas Friedman suggests that his repertoire of achievements also includes being heir to Christopher Columbus. According to Friedman, he has followed in the foot- steps of the fifteenth-century icon by making an unexpected discovery regarding the shape of the world during an encounter with “people called Indians.”
By Dean Baker: The NYT had an article that reports on the high level of corporate debt and indebtedness in general in Spain. The article gives a measure ...
By Stacy Mitchell: A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran a story on the front page of the business section under the headline “Unexpected Ally Helps ...
By Danielle Young: “Many black women are fat because we want to be,” Alice Randall stated in her NY Times Op-Ed piece that sparked a firestorm of online ...