By Marie Burns: “Everyone agrees that federal spending must be drastically cut. But there is an alternative: raising more money from all taxpayers, including the middle ...
By Norman Pollack: I have written comments to the New York Times for several years, prompted to bear down in a sustained way in the lead-up to Obama’s ...
By Costas Panayotakis: In an editorial disguised as a piece of business reporting Liz Alderman and Jack Ewing inform New York Times readers that ‘Despite Signs ...
By Bob Somerby: Did President Obama “make a forceful argument for a progressive agenda” in his Inaugural Address?
By Alex Pareene: As David Brooks taught us last week, Barack Obama’s cunning plan to sabotage and undermine the Republican Party is to repeatedly force them to act ...
By Kathy Ruffing: We’ve debunked the claim in a recent New York Times op-ed that Social Security’s official long-term financial projections are based on outdated and inaccurate assumptions and thus ...
By Dean Baker: David Brooks would benefit hugely from a remedial course in grade school arithmetic. It might keep him from saying silly things in his ...
By Philip Weiss: Yesterday in the New York Times, columnist Roger Cohen said that it’s time for “break-through” diplomacy by Obama in Israel and Palestine, leading to a ...
By Joe Hagan: Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the last year trying to make news, first with his birther obsession, and more recently ...