February 2013 Archive
The ‘Populists’ and the ‘Experts’
By Costas Panayotakis The reporting by the New York Times of the recent election in Italy suggests, yet again, that confusion regarding the European crisis continues ...
The Court Erects a Barrier Against Civil Liberties Politicization of Justice
By Norman Pollack: Tuesday, Feb. 26, the Supreme Court, Allito’s majority opinion, took a significant step in linking counterterrorism to the ugly strain of anticommunism, McCarthyism, ...
Is an “Expert” Someone Who Is Surprised by Developments in Their Area of Expertise?
By Dean Baker: That might seem to be the definition given the way they are often featured in news accounts. A NYT piece on the results of the ...
Making the World Safe for the Oscars
By Matthew Stevenson: Having Michelle Obama beamed into the Oscar awards is a subtle way of saying that the real wars...
Steven Davidoff Doesn’t Consider the Successful 300 Years of Financial Transactions Taxes In London
By Dean Baker: Steven Davidoff really doesn't like financial transactions taxes (FTT) but is not honest enough to acknowledge this fact. Instead he tells readers that proponents of ...
How to Turn an Apology into a Presidential Indictment
By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist David Brooks begins today's column with a half-baked apology for his last column: In Friday's column, I wrote that the ...
Thomas Friedman Gets Lost South of the Border
By Dean Baker: In this century Mexico has had the slowest per capita GDP growth of any country in Latin America. It has made almost no progress in ...
The Counter-Terrorism Diversion Drones, Africa and the Decline of American Power
By Norman Pollack: The announcement (Feb. 22) that the US has opened a drone base in Niger has been deliberately couched in abstract counterterrorism terms: unarmed ...
All the News that’s Fit to Sell: Will Rupert Murdoch buy the Boston Globe?
By Michael Wolff: The purchase of the Boston Globe by the New York Times Company 20 years ago – just a year before the launch of the commercial Internet – ...
IHT to be Rebranded International New York Times
By Associated Press: NEW YORK — The International Herald Tribune, one of the most enduring brands in journalism history, is getting a new name: The International ...
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