June 2012 Archive

Liberals Remind Him of Nazis

By Marie Burns: It was only a matter of time before Ross Douthat, the New York Times‘ Vatican correspondent and right-wing spokesman, began painting Hitler mustaches ...

House Republicans Try to Create the World’s Worst Criminogenic Environment

By William K. Black: In criminology, we recognize that one of the leading restraints on the effectiveness of law enforcement is “systems capacity.”  Indeed, my mentor, ...

The New York Times: These Were Not Leaks

By Dylan Byers: Caught in the crosshairs of a contentious dispute between the White House and Congress, The New York Times is vowing to charge ahead with its ...

Take Away the Patent Protection: The Answer to Uwe Reinhardt’s Question

By Dean Baker: In a blogpost in the NYT Uwe Reinhardt asked how much we would be willing to pay to extend a person’s life by a year. ...

Sexism In Tech? The Times Is ON IT

By Leslie Hitchcock and Alexia Tsotsis: “MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried ...