Executive editor Bill Keller has a funny way of expressing humility. His metaphor - that media reporters are "oxpeckers" while he is by inference a massive African mammal - sounded more than a ...
Liberal columnist Gail Collins pays "conservative" columnist David Brooks the ultimate tribute: "This is why Barack Obama likes you so much. (Admit it, when you're around he ignores every other ...
Former reporter turned columnist Timothy Egan, classy as ever: "Palin no longer has to govern, since quitting halfway through her term in Alaska. Relying on her singular, God-given inability to ...
So much for those sharp, sophisticated Times readers. Editor Gerald Marzorati said at a new media conference that Times subscribers have no clue how much they're spending on the print edition: "We ...
Thomas Friedman ended a tribute to American creativity and optimism with an arbitrary put down of Fox News: "I keep meeting these people any time I travel outside of Wash-they didn't get the word ...
Reporter William Yardley celebrates ex-Republican and evident Alaska Senate winner Lisa Murkowski as a realist: "Joe Miller, the Republican nominee, promoted a conservative utopia in the Last ...
For some reason, the Times finds a local group of Communists positively cuddlesome: "If communists have a reputation for anything, it is seriousness. (And if you have seen old photos of Karl Marx, ...
Then move! Nicholas Kristof argues things are worse off in the United States than Guyana: "The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in ...
