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'Immigration Hardliners' in AZ Draw 'Scorn' From Unidentified Opponents

Phoenix bureau chief Marc Lacey shows his usual fair-and-balanced outlook on immigration enforcement: "Despite boycotts and accusations that the state has become a haven of intolerance, Arizona ...

Obama's Rejection of DOMA Brings Usual Labeling Slant: 'Conservatives' vs. 'Advocates'

The paper greeted the news the Obama administration had decided the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional with big lead-story play and predictable labeling imbalance, presenting supporters of ...

'Pugnacious and Boastful' Gov. Christie Left Education System 'Reeling'

Reporter David Halbfinger relays what unions find "most galling" about the "pugnacious and boastful" Gov. Christie's budget proposals. He displayed far more empathy toward Connecticut's Democratic ...

Tom Friedman's Taxing Obsession

Over the years columnist Tom Friedman has written on the costs of the Iraq war, the federal deficit, the threat of global warming, and the uprisings in the Arab world, disparate problems that ...

More Dreamy News Section Fawning Over the Dream Act

Education columnist Michael Winerip lauds a Dream Act activist, just the latest in a long history of support for the liberal legislation, that would provide amnesty for illegal students: "Isabel ...

Krugman: GOP Gov. Leading America Down Road to 'Third-World-Style Oligarchy'

Paul Krugman on Wisconsin: "What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin - and eventually, America - less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style ...

Sarah Palin, an 'Enthusiastic Birther'? Not Really

Joining the rest of the media in challenging prominent Republicans to denounce the "birthers," the Times overstates the facts in Palin's case. And where was the paper's outrage against conspiracy ...

Outside Conservatives in Wisconsin? Sinister. White House in Wisconsin? Shrugworthy

Double standards on outside political groups in Madison: Americans for Prosperity "created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch." Yet "officials ...

'Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of Collective Bargaining Rights?'

Or maybe not so "inevitable" a question: "The parallels raise the inevitable question: Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?" The front-page story also ignored the hateful ...

Nagourney Recycles Favorite Theme: Republicans Overreach, Face Voter Backlash

Adam Nagourney writes his favorite kind of story, about backlash against Republican overreaching: "But in the view of officials from both major political parties, Republicans may be risking the ...
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