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Krugman, Inspired By Leftist Paranoia, Sees 'Shock Doctrine' in Wisconsin

Columnist Paul Krugman uses Naomi Klein's anti-capitalist paranoia tome "The Shock Doctrine" to criticize Gov. Scott Walker's move to get public-sector unions to pay a larger share of their ...

Times Reporting Dotted With Warnings of 'Far-Right,' 'Hard-Right' Conservatives

A Nexis search indicates Times reporters have used hard-right five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnist employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or ...

'Immigration Hardliners' in AZ Draw 'Scorn' From Unidentified Opponents

Phoenix bureau chief Marc Lacey shows his usual fair-and-balanced outlook on immigration enforcement: "Despite boycotts and accusations that the state has become a haven of intolerance, Arizona ...

Obama's Rejection of DOMA Brings Usual Labeling Slant: 'Conservatives' vs. 'Advocates'

The paper greeted the news the Obama administration had decided the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional with big lead-story play and predictable labeling imbalance, presenting supporters of ...

'Pugnacious and Boastful' Gov. Christie Left Education System 'Reeling'

Reporter David Halbfinger relays what unions find "most galling" about the "pugnacious and boastful" Gov. Christie's budget proposals. He displayed far more empathy toward Connecticut's Democratic ...

Tom Friedman's Taxing Obsession

Over the years columnist Tom Friedman has written on the costs of the Iraq war, the federal deficit, the threat of global warming, and the uprisings in the Arab world, disparate problems that ...

More Dreamy News Section Fawning Over the Dream Act

Education columnist Michael Winerip lauds a Dream Act activist, just the latest in a long history of support for the liberal legislation, that would provide amnesty for illegal students: "Isabel ...

Krugman: GOP Gov. Leading America Down Road to 'Third-World-Style Oligarchy'

Paul Krugman on Wisconsin: "What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin - and eventually, America - less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style ...

Sarah Palin, an 'Enthusiastic Birther'? Not Really

Joining the rest of the media in challenging prominent Republicans to denounce the "birthers," the Times overstates the facts in Palin's case. And where was the paper's outrage against conspiracy ...

Outside Conservatives in Wisconsin? Sinister. White House in Wisconsin? Shrugworthy

Double standards on outside political groups in Madison: Americans for Prosperity "created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch." Yet "officials ...
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