January 2013 Archive

Radical Compassion: Restorative Justice Program Meets Needs of Both Victims and Perpetrators

By David Belden: A new program allows victims' forgiveness to play a role in prosecution. A storm of comments swirled around a story about teen murder in the New York Times last ...

Things That Make Sense To The New York Times!

By Bob Somerby: The New York Times is widely seen, at least among liberals and mainstreamers, as our smartest newspaper.

The NYT is Upset that Wages in China Are Rising

By Dean Baker: Wow this is really getting incredible, yet another piece about how China is going to be suffering because it has a declining labor force. The ...

How Wonks Get Snarky

By Jared Bernstein: A couple of weeks ago, the NYT—somewhat weirdly, I thought—published a full-page spread by a couple of analysts arguing that the Social Security Administration was ...

Are Israeli Arabs ‘Apathetic’–or Second-Class Citizens?

By Peter Hart: For a variety of reasons, Arab citizens of Israel don't seem all that excited about voting in next week's elections.  And, for some ...