Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research
Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.
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2/17/2011 1:58 PM ET
More of the sober, substantive commentary we've come to expect from the nation's leading newspaper: "But that wasn't enough for [Speaker John Boehner's] fanatical freshmen, who demanded that it be ...
2/16/2011 2:19 PM ET
Reporter Michael Shear gets carried away in praise of John Sweeney, former head of the AFL-CIO, and highly partisan Democrat.
2/16/2011 1:11 PM ET
David Halbfinger gushes over Connecticut's new Democratic governor, in contrast with the "blustery and bellicose" budget-slasher Chris Christie of neighboring New Jersey: "And as he closes a 20 ...
2/16/2011 8:21 AM ET
The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau on the "advocacy group" battling "conservatives" and Justice Clarence Thomas: "...Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative ...
2/15/2011 3:19 PM ET
News you can use: "The anniversary will probably be observed in silence. A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it ...
2/15/2011 1:54 PM ET
The "advocacy group" battling "conservatives" and Justice Clarence Thomas: "...Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative legal group, had reimbursed him an ...
2/15/2011 11:24 AM ET
Jackie Calmes again suggests Obama's budget for fiscal year 2012 threaded the needle just right between spending cuts and increases, downplaying his lack of leadership on deficit-cutting: "With ...
2/14/2011 2:49 PM ET
Reporter Jackie Calmes defends Obama's lack of budgetary leadership as clever strategy: "...President Obama has not opted for the bold, comprehensive approach to reining in the fast-growing ...
2/14/2011 1:47 PM ET
Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal rushes in where scientific consensus fears to tread: "Global warming is most likely responsible, at least in part, for the rising frequency and severity of extreme ...
2/14/2011 12:07 PM ET
Peter Baker's respectful interview with Donald Rumsfeld in the Times Sunday Magazine makes quite a contrast with Deborah Solomon's aggressive and hostile approach toward conservatives like William ...
2/11/2011 2:41 PM ET
Matt Bai warns Republicans from being too angry and "anti-Washington" if they want to get elected in 2012. Didn't it work pretty well in 2010? "The main lesson Republicans might take from this ...
2/11/2011 1:32 PM ET
Author McGowan is not a boycotter or enemy of the Times, but longs for a much better version of the Times than is being produced by the current regime. His book "Gray Lady Down" comes loaded with ...
2/10/2011 3:56 PM ET
The paper's long-time Supreme Court reporter and pro-choice marcher is still keeping up the fight on abortion, decrying racially inflammatory rhetoric, yet lighting into "white activists" for ...
2/10/2011 2:12 PM ET
The Times has never been overly concerned about the free speech rights of campus conservatives. Yet today the Times rode to the defense of a Muslim group facing criminal charges for conspiring to ...
2/10/2011 12:22 PM ET
Newly minted anti-earmark conservatives are facing a backlash, says Jennifer Steinhauer: "Tensions are particularly acute in districts where new conservative lawmakers, many of whom criticized ...
2/9/2011 2:40 PM ET
In a story lamenting the failure of the Dream Act, reporter Julia Preston puts an emotional liberal spin on legislation cutting off benefits to illegal immigrants: "Hostility toward illegal ...
2/9/2011 2:10 PM ET
Houston bureau chief James McKinley: "Democrats said Mr. Perry and Republican legislative leaders, who have big majorities in both houses, are ignoring reality to curry favor with Tea Party ...
2/9/2011 1:33 PM ET
"In the wake of sweeping Republican victories in last year's Congressional elections, where Tea Party supporters rewarded candidates who pledged to uphold fiscally conservative principles and ...
2/8/2011 1:34 PM ET
James Taranto tackles the Times endorsement of a left-wing group and it's blatant hate-speech hypocrisy: "By the Times's standards, surely it is legitimate to hold Common Cause, and particularly ...
2/8/2011 12:14 PM ET
Times media reporter Brian Stelter: "...as recently as Friday the conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly branded Al Jazeera as 'anti-America.' But that view has been largely drowned out ...
