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Just What the Country Needs: Professor 'Shining a Marxist Light' on Financial Crisis

At last, something relevant is being taught in college: "Sidney Plotkin, a professor of political science at Vassar College...began a new section of the course by exploring the housing bubble and ...

Quote of the Day: Harry Reid's Bling?

David Herszenhorn sees Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's outsized Democratic majority as "a chain around Mr. Reid's neck..."

Frank Rich, Still Searching for Political Relevance

And you thought "Up in the Air" was just holiday entertainment. Frank Rich tells us it's actually "using the power of pop culture to salve national wounds that continue to fester in the real world."

Sen. Joe Lieberman 'Capitol Hill's Master Infuriator' for Obama-Care Stand

Lieberman's opposition to a Medicare buy-in proposal and single-payer has frustrated Democrats (and Times reporters).

Movie Critic Dargis Angrily Demands More Female Film Directors

Movie reviewer Manohla Dargis demands more female directors and asks about the lack of same: "Feeling queasy yet? Resigned? Indifferent? A little angry?" Um, not yet.

Apocalypse Now: Melting Glaciers 'Threatening the Existence of Nearly 100 Million People'

It wouldn't be an enviro-scare story on climate change without a tasteless comparison to the 9-11 attacks: "Glaciers are part of the majestic landscape here, visible from almost everywhere in the ...

A Tale of Two Headlines

Hmmm. Evidently Obama-care is no longer a big news story at the Times. What other explanation could there be?

McCain's 'Sarcasm and Anger' Toward a President Is Once Again a Bad Thing

John McCain goes after Obama's policies, and reporter Adam Nagourney does not sound happy: "If Mr. McCain has had a history of being a happy warrior, that is not the phrase used by many of his ...

The Times Laments Media Bias - at the Wall Street Journal

Let no one say the Times is blind to media bias. It's uncovered it at the (conservative) New York Post and (conservative) Fox News, though admissions of the paper's own clear liberal tilt are few ...

Obama's Tradition of 'Favoring Pragmatism Over Absolutes'

The return of the pragmatic big-spending liberal, Barack Obama, at the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Norway.
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