August 2012 Archive

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The Real Mitt Romney

By Marie Burns: In their New York Times opinion columns today, both David Brooks and Frank Bruni try to locate the Real Romney. Brooks gives up ...

NYT

Public Editor’s Parting Shot at ‘NYT’: More Blather About ‘Liberal Bias’

By Greg Mitchell: In his farewell column Sunday, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane declared that the paper still lacks “transparency” and “humility.”

Wiretap Facility

The New York Times Reminds Us the NSA Still Warrantlessly Wiretaps Americans, and Congress Has the Power to Stop It

By Trevor Timm: Last week, the New York Times published two important op-eds highlighting how the National Security Agency (NSA) has retained expansive powers to warrantlessly wiretap Americans after Congress ...

Wedding

Fine, Women Don’t Need Men. So What?

By Amanda Marcotte: The New York Times must be trolling men. That can be the only explanation for why the paper thought it advisable to run this paranoid op-ed by Greg Hampikian...

China threat

Inflating the China Threat

By Stephen M. Walt: If you were focusing on Hurricane Isaac or the continued violence in Syria, you might have missed the latest round of threat ...

Brisbane Hammers NYT for ‘Progressivism,’ Occupy Bias

By Erik Wemple: Outgoing New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane made himself a hot aggregational commodity this weekend with a farewell column accusing his paycheck issuer of bias.