Jennifer Steinhauer greets Sen. Chuck Schumer's tax-cut word games with approval. Yet the Times loathed what it considered the unfair and misleading Republican phrase "death tax" to describe the ...
Republicans are already killing compromise on Capitol Hill: "Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a 'new dialogue,' ...
Again praising China, Thomas Friedman mocks American concern for civil liberties: "They fight over things like - we are not making this up - how and where an airport security officer can touch them."
The Times is already pushing the "entrapment" defense in the case of the Portland Christmas-tree bomber, sympathizing with local Muslims in opposition to the anti-terror investigation. And after ...
Jennifer Steinhauer hails the newest revered Republican "maverick," Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, for bucking the GOP and helping Obama on some issues: "Mavericks are not in vogue these days on ...
Strained relations with the Muslim world? Blame the United States, says UN Bureau Chief Neil MacFarquhar: "The problem, which 'Arab Voices' persuasively illustrates, is that Americans tend to ...
Simon Romero excuses terrorist helper Lori Berenson's "youthful outburst" of support of the Marxist terrorists of Peru's MRTA (she was 26) and wonders why the people of Peru, who suffered mightily ...
Frank Rich's unleashes his latest painful cultural-political metaphor: "If this were a metaphor - if only! - Wall Street would be the bachelor, and America the dwarf, involuntarily chained to its ...
Executive Editor Bill Keller on why the Times published confidential diplomatic cables obtained illegally by Wikileaks: "For The Times to ignore this material would be to deny its own readers the ...
At first, the Times recognized the Pope's comments on sexual morality and condoms were "limited," but became convinced by liberal Catholics that a whole revolution has taken place, and the church ...