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Days Later, Times Plants Bachmann 'Gay Therapy' Story on Sunday Front Page

Sheryl Gay Stolberg traveled to Minnesota to pile on the Bachmanns days after a hidden-camera investigation ran on two networks: "Yet her position has also become a distraction for her campaign, ...

Times Critics Vindicated: Public Editor Dresses Down Dubious Article Critical of Natural Gas Industry

Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane concluded of Ian Urbina's controversial front-page Sunday story on natural gas: "...such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for ...

Paul Krugman Diagnoses the G.O.P.'s Mental Health

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains it all: "A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. 'Has the G.O.P. gone insane?' they ask. Why, yes, it has."

Former SCOTUS Reporter Greenhouse Praises Kagan, Hits 'Mean-Spirited...Immature' Justice Scalia

Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse crowns new liberal Justice Elena Kagan winner of the Supreme Court's just-concluded term, a "distinctive voice" who still "has light years to go ...

Former Reporter Egan Compares Violent Seattle 'Anarchists' to Budget-Cutting GOP

Former reporter Timothy Egan sleazily likens Republican "anarchists" in Congress to the violent leftist mob who rampaged through Seattle in 1999: "The loafers may want to retreat to their wine ...

Since When? Budget-Cutting Obama 'Wants Deficit Reduction'; G.O.P. Has 'Problematic' Budget Philosophy

Reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for an outdated and "problematic" "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, and wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his abrupt, politically ...

One of Obama's Emotional Arguments for Obama-Care Proven Wrong in NYT Staffer's New Book

"The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama, in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central ...

Editor Bill Keller Wishes His Staff Would Stop Writing All These Books

Bill Keller hints his news staff is spending too much time writing books about their pets and concludes: "We indulge our writers because we want the talent happy, and because a little of their ...

Times Reporter Discusses Squelching of WikiLeaks, Leaves Out Her PR Work for Group

Contributing writer Jennifer 8. Lee discusses the persecution of the anti-American anti-secrecy group Wikileaks, but doesn't mention she did publicity work for them last year: "The control that ...

The Times' Main Economics Writer Pushes a Familiar Budget Solution: Tax Hikes

You'll never guess what the paper's chief economics writer David Leonhardt thinks would be a good solution to the debt ceiling/budget crisis. Or maybe you will: "In the end, the most likely tax ...
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