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Problem: Finding a Death Penalty to Sate "Blood-Thirsty" Public

Elizabeth Weil finds Americans simplistic and vengeful when it comes to the death penalty.

Pakistan Crackdown "Making a Mockery" of Bush's Democracy Promotion?

Even in Pakistan, everything comes back to Bush: "For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep ...

This Just In: Internet Comments Often Rude, Vitriolic

Double standards of offensiveness? Stunned Public Editor Clark Hoyt launches a tirade against a commentor who invited the Times to take in illegal immigrants - but a death wish against Dick Cheney ...

GOP "Smear"-ing Democrats by "Playing the Terror Card"

Reporter Kareem Fahim can't be accused of playing up terror threats: This summer he would not acknowledge the Islamic religious motivation of the "Fort Dix Six" terror plotters.

Times Arrives Late to Good News on Plunging Violence in Iraq

All the other major newspapers either relayed the good news first or gave it more prominent play.

Enola Gay Commander Dies - Times Cited Anti-War "Controversy"

The commander of the Enola Gay died, and the obituary writer for Paul Tibbets couldn't resist injecting historical revisionism, including criticism from a Communist newspaper in India.

The Religious Right Is Dead Again

David Kirkpatrick explains it all in an 8,000 word cover story for the magazine.

Meeting Anita Hill in the Sports Section

Only liberals find sexual harassment lawsuits inspiring: "Browne Sanders inspires many by winning a lawsuit."

A Reporter's Plea: "Did They Know How Hard We Worked to Report the News Fairly?"

Michael Luo pleaded with conservative Christians: "I would try various tacks to defuse their hostility. Did they know there was a difference between the editorial and news pages? What about the ...

Dismissing the Surge's Success

James Glanz: "But another oversight official, Joseph A. Christoff...said some measures of what some see as progress in Iraq were not as clear-cut as they might seem."
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