May 2012 Archive

In Memoriam: Tom Friedman’s Radical Idea

By Marie Burns: Hitting from left and right, New York Times columnists Paul Krugman and Ross Douthat smacked down their colleague Tom Friedman yesterday. Of course it would ...

NYT on Kissinger-TSA Incident: ‘TSA screeners have yet to catch a terrorist’

By Michael McGehee: The other day it was widely reported in the news that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was given a full pat down ...

A Critic Falls Apart: Yves Smith on Paul Krugman

By Marie Burns: One well-respected writer who weighed in on the demise of Americans Elect – the suspicious effort to mount a third-party presidential candidate – was Yves ...

Why is Paul Krugman Misrepresenting the Demise of a Wall Street Funded, Right Wing, Entitlement-Bashing Front Group?

By Yves Smith: Paul Krugman’s partisanship has become so shameless that we are giving him the inaugural Eric Schneiderman Decoy Award for his post “Things Fall ...

Our Mr. Brooks Goes A-Channel-Surfin’

By Charles P. Pierce: I received an e-mail today purporting to be from Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks. ...

New Evidence of Stop-and-Frisk Abuses Prompts NYT to Call for More Evidence

By Janine Jackson: The New York Times editorially decried the New York City police department’s stop-and-frisk practices (“Injustices of Stop and Frisk,” 5/13/12), noting that the criterion of “furtive ...

New York Times Misinforms Readers on Jerry Brown’s Budget

By Paul Hogarth: Adam Nagourney’s report on Governor Jerry Brown’s May Revise budget got one obvious fact wrong – the state doesn’t have a “new” $16 billion shortfall. ...