By Michael Hudson: Paul Krugman is widely appreciated for his New York Times columns criticizing Republican demands for fiscal austerity. He rightly argues that cutting back public spending ...
By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist David Brooks is perplexed. He cannot figure out why President Obama is “even close” in public polls pitting the President against ...
By Michael McGehee: Usually when it comes to matters of the American Empire the New York Times cannot help but rely on the U.S. government as a source ...
By Daniel Larison: Bill Keller’s description of the Bush administration’s record on human rights is flawed: George W. Bush made “the freedom agenda” a signature of his administration, but ...
By Tom Tomorrow: Readers should imagine the Austerions speaking in full, booming voices, with the reverb cranked up high.
By Jorge Rivas: A twenty-five year old woman was found dead in a four-story Brooklyn apartment building that caught on fire early Saturday morning. Police identified ...
By Autumn Sandeen: The New York Times begins its article Woman Dies in a Brooklyn Fire That Is Deemed Suspicious with this paragraph: She was 25 and curvaceous, and ...
By JOS: Lorena Escalera was a person. She was a performer in the ball scene. She died in a suspicious fire on Saturday. And she sure ...
By Ray McGovern Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons ...
By Raha Iranian Feminist Collective: Media reports on Iran oscillate wildly between threats of imminent military action and hopeful reports of diplomatic progress. Amidst this confusing ...