Tag: The New York Times
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Trying to Derail Obama. Again
There have been political cartoons and breathless stories, including blatantly false ones by Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for President of the United States, about how President Obama paid ransom to get the Iran nuclear deal. Now, along comes a corrective story in the form of a New York Times editorial: The first thing to…
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The Company We Keep
My son asked me a question the other day that still cuts very deep. “How are you comfortable being in league with racists, xenophobes and reactionaries?” he asked. What prompted the question was my support for Brexit. I’ll admit it is true that the likes of Boris Johnson, the idiotic and racist former London mayor,…
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If it Walks and Quacks like a Duck . . .
Despite his “good relationship with the blacks” and being the “least racist person” he knows, Donald Trump history of discriminating against people of color goes back to the beginning of his business career. The New York Times, which over the weekend released a story about how DT devastated lives in numerous bankruptcies in Atlantic City,…
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End of an Era, Indeed!
The New York Times published the note below at the end of a strange story about the reburial of Richard III. I revered to Times journalists as a young journalist. Unlike many in my generation who came into journalism because of Woodward and Bernstein, Harrison Salisbury was my initial inspiration. Then, John F. Burns became…
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A Plug for Unions
The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…
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Souter's Harvard Talk
Text of Justice David Souter’s Harvard Commencement remarks (as delivered) When I was younger, I used to hear Harvard stories from a member of the class of 1885. Back then, old graduates of the College who could get to Cambridge on Commencement Day didn’t wait for reunion years to come back to the Yard. They’d…
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“Enemies of freedom”
Gaza Needs a George Orwell Now By Jim Sleeper – January 11, 2009, 12:48AM Israel is barring independent journalists from Gaza, but The New York Times, relying on Palestinian correspondents there, reports that “Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels,…
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"A passion for justice"
The Fed Who Blew the Whistle Is he a hero or a criminal? by Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008 Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government’s most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret. Government agents had probed…
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Historic record*
I had complained in a post earlier about the front page of The New York Times that carried the news of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election. I felt that it was, at least, inappropriate and did not rise to standard of previous his Times front pages. I don’t know if this…
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The New York Times presidential endorsement
Editorial Barack Obama for President Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped…