July 2012 Archive
A Conservative Says Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals
By Marie Burns: Arthur Brooks, president of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, writes in an op-ed in today's New York Times that conservatives are happier than ...
New York Times Editors Mangle Story on False GOP Medicare Claims
By Scarecrow: Jackie Calmes is a decent reporter, and except for two disconnected paragraphs added, I suspect, by her dishonest editors, she wrote a worthwhile story for ...
The True Demise of Davos Man
By Daniel Warner: Davos Man, a phrase attributed to the American political scientist Samuel Huntington, was all the rage in the late 1990s. The Financial Times once headlined “What’s on the mind of Davos man?” in preparation for the annual gathering of the select best and the brightest’s meeting in the small Swiss mountain village.
Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day
By Juan Cole: Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been ...
Our Mr. Brooks Has a Problem with Boys
By Charles P. Pierce: Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo-op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks, had the week off, and he was enjoying being ...
The NYT Decides to Square With Its Readers About Medicare and Social Security
By Dean Baker: In the middle of an article that is largely devoted to discussing the absurdity of Republicans attacks on the Affordable Care Act's cost controls for ...