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Glater Still Cheerleading for Liberal Student Loan Programs

Reporter Jonathan Glater issues a virtual press release in favor of a liberalized (in both senses) student loan repayment program praised by Naderites.

Roger Cohen Says He Was Right All Along About Iranian People

See, Cohen says, I was right all along: "One benefit of the massive show of resistance to a stolen vote, and future, has been to awaken Americans to the civic vitality of Iranian society - a real ...

Plugging Euro-Style Health Care in the Movie Section

The paper's liberal chief movie critic plugs the French way of life.

Comrade Krugman Accuses GOP of "Treason Against the Planet"

Columnist Paul Krugman's left-wing mindset takes a totalitarian turn: "And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason - treason ...

Strange Days: Obama's Opposition to Gay Marriage a Good Thing?

Yes, apparently, as long as it keeps the GOP down, implies Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus: "But the admissions of extramarital adventures by two Republican stalwarts, Gov. Mark Sanford of ...

No Dissent, No Cost Questions in Cap-and-Trade Coverage

John Broder mostly ignored skeptics and lowballed the cost of the Democrat's climate change bill.

"The Stoning of Soraya M" Is "Lurid Torture-Porn"

Liberal movie critic Stephen Holden doesn't like a movie about the horrible fate of a women in Iran: "Mr. Negahban's Ali, who resembles a younger, bearded Philip Roth, suggests an Islamic ...

The Great George Bush Sr. "Grocery Scanner" Urban Legend Lives On

Reporter Garry Shih in a story on bar codes writes: "They even played a role in the 1992 presidential race, when then-President George H. W. Bush, at a campaign stop, seemed surprised by what had ...

HuffPost's Nico Pitney No "Administration Plant," But Jeff Gannon Was

Peter Baker of the New York Times on the Nico Pitney planted question controversy: "Here is the dirty little secret about White House news conferences: The president almost always knows the ...

Sanford and Sin Will Dog G.O.P Through 2012

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's confession of adultery gives the Times another chance to round up recent (and not so recent) stories of Republican misdeeds and controversies and suggest they ...
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