August 2012 Archive

Pussy Riot Support in Switzerland, the NYT and IHT

By Daniel Warner: The Pussy Riot phenomenon has come to Switzerland, the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune (IHT). Madonna’s concert in Zurich on ...

What’s ‘Fit’ to Read About Greece

By Costas Panayotakis: The New York Times prides itself on offering its readers ‘all the news that’s fit to print.’ The value judgment inherent in the word ‘fit’ does not of course refer to the understandable and inevitable necessity for any newspaper to make a choice about which of the potentially infinite number of stories it is worth reporting on.

Still Praising Ryan as ‘Fiscal Hawk’

By Robert Parry: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has made the unassailable point that it is absurd to let Rep. Paul Ryan masquerade as a “fiscal ...

What Does Health Care Have To Do With The Wage Slowdown? Not Much

By Lawrence Mishel: David Leonhardt on the New York Times‘ Economix blog is spurring an interesting conversation about what has caused the slowdown in income growth. Though not ...

NYT Picks Up on Cuts to Current Medicare Beneficiaries Arising From Romney-Ryan Plan

By David Dayen: The story I covered on Sunday about how the Romney-Ryan campaign would have to cut current Medicare benefits because of the box they’ve shoved themselves ...

Ryan Isn’t an Entitlement Reformer, He’s an Entitlement Destroyer

By Robert Reich: David Brooks in today’s New York Times commits the standard error of pundits who want to appear neutral but know the Romney-Ryan plan would be a disaster for America.