August 2012 Archive

Obama, Spamander-in-Chief

By Matthew Stevenson: Am I the only one who thinks the White House has descended to the level of Priceline or eBay? I can now bid ...

The New York Times’ F-Word Problem

By Mary Elizabeth Williams: The New York Times prides itself on being one of the last, great bastions of clean language. It is a place where ...

The Carbon Credit Hoax

By Rob Urie: Rarely can a single story encapsulate so much of what is wrong with the economic system at work in the West as the one that follows. According to the New York Times, a group of industrial gas companies in India gamed the ‘carbon credit’ system to...

NYT-Adelson Baton Pass

By Philip Weiss: I'm told that Sheldon Adelson's shop, Sands Las Vegas, just hired Todd McCarty as head of global Human Resources. McCarty is still listed as senior VP for Human Resources at the New York Times...