Helene Cooper: "Both moments were perceived by the Obama re-election campaign as another gift from Mr. Romney - now dubbed 'the gift that keeps on giving' by some on the Obama team."
Helene Cooper: "While it is difficult to judge whether the moment will have any lasting impact, Hispanic leaders said that what is being dubbed by some as the 'dustup in the desert' could play in ...
Helene Cooper claimed Republicans in Congress were seeing their "poll numbers diving," but failed to note Obama's poll numbers are also underwater, and took Obama's lead in suggesting his message ...
Helene Cooper yawns over Obama's dubious and possibly unconstitutional "recess" appointments while suggesting the administration has the Republicans just where they want them as Campaign 2012 ...
Helene Cooper spreads hope for Obama in Arizona in 2012 thanks to the GOP's "hard-line stance" on immigration: "But the state's crackdown on illegal immigration has coincided with a boom in its ...
Plus, great minds think alike? Two lead stories on consecutive days from different reporters contain an identical paragraph: "The Obama proposal has little chance of becoming law unless Republican ...
The September 1 Times portrayed House Speaker John Boehner's request that President Obama delay his speech to Congress by a day as an "unprecedented" refusal of a presidential request and evidence ...
Today Libya, tomorrow Syria? Times reporters railed against the Iraq War, but are copacetic about possible Obama intervention in Syria: "But the very fact that the administration has joined with ...
The Times finally finds a place to cut government spending. Michael Cooper: "[The resolution] was nonetheless a remarkable signal of both the nation's spreading war weariness and the lingering ...
From the Times' lead story: "Diplomatic momentum has been with the Palestinians for several years, with their leadership and requests viewed as reasonable and Mr. Netanyahu as unyielding....the ...