July 2012 Archive

Bill Keller Wants to Take Away Your Social Security and Is Either Too Ignorant or Dishonest to Acknowledge that He Is Not a Typical Baby Boomer

By Dean Baker: The effort by the rich to take away Social Security keeps building momentum. Today Bill Keller urges his fellow baby boomers: “FELLOW boomers, we have ...

WikiLeaks Claims Responsibility for Fake Bill Keller Column, Citing Donation Ban

By Ed Pilkington: WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site set up by Julian Assange, has claimed that it was behind the fake opinion piece circulating on the internet under the name of Bill Keller, columnist and former executive editor of the New York Times.

The Curative Powers of the Internet

By Glenn Greenwald: Late last night, shortly before going to sleep, I saw links on Twitter to what purported to be — and what certainly looked and read like a new Op-Ed...

Can We Get Beyond Dualism, Statistical or Otherwise?

By Daniel Lende and Greg Downey: This NYT Sunday Op-Ed “Did Your Brain Make You Do It?” opens, “Are you responsible for your behavior if your ...

Doctor Shortage? NYT Has Never Heard of “Immigration”

By Dean Baker: Apparently NYT reporters never heard of immigration. This is the only way to explain a front page piece that discusses an alleged shortage of doctors ...