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Jab at Nancy Reagan In Article on Supernatural in Thailand

Arbitrary cheap shot alert: "West and East, many people enjoy a good ghost story or a peek at their horoscope now and again. What sets apart Thailand and other countries in Asia is the prevalence ...

Kristof: Low-Income Americans Are Like Cocaine-Snorting Monkeys

The many and varied dangers of income inequality in the United States: "The upshot appears to be high rates of violent crime, high narcotics use, high teenage birthrates and even high rates of ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note 2010 Worst Quotes of the Year

Welcome to Times Watch's end-of-year awards issue, celebrating the best of the worst quotes that appeared in the paper or were uttered by Times reporters and columnists during 2010. It was a year ...

Times Uses Economist's Obituary to Jab at Successful Airline Deregulation

Robert Hershey puts airline deregulation on the defensive in his obituary for deregulation architect Arthur Kahn: "The changes Mr. Kahn orchestrated resulted in increased competition, lower fares ...

Stolberg Paints Picture of Ever-Vigilant Obama, Omits Jim Clapper's Intelligence Lapse

A puff piece by Sheryl Gay Stolberg tries to show the Obama administration as vigilant in the war on terror: "Against that backdrop, the White House has made substantive and public relations ...

David Leonhardt Sees Global Warming As 'Serious Risk' for Planet and the Economy

Chief economics writer David Leonhardt: "The most recent climate data suggested 2010 would be the hottest or second-hottest year ever recorded; the 10 hottest have all occurred in the last 13 ...

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Today, Times Watch will release its annual Times Watch Quotes of Note Worst Quotes of the Year for 2010 - the most slanted reporting to appear in the Times or uttered by Times reporters and ...

How Nice: Justice Sotomayor 'Alert to the Humanity' of People in Her Opinions

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor "has displayed a quality - call it what you will - that is alert to the humanity of the people whose cases make their way to the Supreme Court," says Supreme Court ...

More Front-Page Climate Fears: the 'Runaway Train' of Carbon Dioxide Levels

Justin Gillis has another scary front-page story on global warming: "Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train, hurtling the world's citizens toward a stone wall - a carbon dioxide ...

Former Times Economics Reporter Lauds Leftist Matt Taibbi's Book

A former prominent economics reporter for the Times lauds a new book by Matt Taibbi, incendiary leftist writer on the financial meltdown of 2008, which argues "the nation suffered the equivalent ...
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