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Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Claims

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Shane - Feb. 05 (Special Report) - After two deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis says the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about how the war is going.

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Romney Isn’t Concerned

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - If you’re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn’t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” Faced with criticis

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The Austerity Debacle

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 30 (Opinion) - Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British G.D.P. had regained its previous peak; four years after the Great Recession began, Britain is nowhere close to regaining its lost ground.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs and Cars

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Taxes at the Top

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 19 (Opinion) - As Mitt Romney dances around calls for him to release his tax returns, a question about U.S. tax policy comes up: Why do the rich bear a startlingly light tax burden?

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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The Rise of the New Groupthink

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Susan Cain - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.

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One Percent, Many Variations

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan, Robert Gebeloff - Jan. 15 (Special Report) - Adam Katz is happy to talk to reporters when he is promoting his business, a charter flight company based on Long Island called Talon Air. But when the subject was his position as one of America’s top earners, he balked. Seated at a desk fashioned from a jet fuel cell, wearing a button-down shirt with the company logo, he considered the public relations benefits and found them lacking: “It’s not very popular to be in the 1 percent these days, is it?”

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South Sudan Massacres Follow Independence

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Jettleman - Jan. 13 (News Report) - The trail of corpses begins about 300 yards from the corrugated metal gate of the United Nations compound and stretches for miles into the bush. There is an old man on his back, a young woman with her legs splayed and skirt bunched up around her hips, and a whole family — man, woman, two children — all facedown in the swamp grass, executed together. How many hundreds are scattered across the savannah, nobody really knows.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Bain, Barack and Jobs

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney says that President Obama has been a job destroyer, while he was a job-creating businessman. But those claims border on dishonesty.

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Keynes Was Right

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - Once again, when politicians and policy makers decided to focus on deficits, not jobs, they proved Keynes right about a slump being the wrong time for austerity.

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Israeli Girl at Center of Tension Over Religious Extremism

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - Naama Margolese has become the face of a conflict over the influence of extremists in Israel after her story of being accosted by ultra-Orthodox men was reported in the media.

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The Post-Truth Campaign

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney is blazing new trails in politics, where not telling the truth doesn’t seem to have any consequences.

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China Sentences Rights Activist to 9 Years' Jail

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Associated Press - Dec. 23 (News Report) - A Chinese court sentenced a veteran democracy activist Friday to nine years' imprisonment for inciting subversion, in what appears to be the most severe punishment handed down in a crackdown on dissent this year.

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Op-Ed Contributors: Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ian Ayres, Aaron S. Edlin - Dec. 18 (Opinion) - To keep inequality in check, tax the wealthiest 1 percent when their income gets out of proportion with median income.

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Op-Ed Columnist: G.O.P. Monetary Madness

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - When it comes to views on economics, Republicans have been consistent, clear and wrong.

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Arrests in Iraq Raise Concerns About Maliki

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jack Healy, Tim Arango, Michael S. Schmidt - Dec. 12 (Special Report) - Night raids and mass arrests come as the United States prepares to leave Iraq, leading Western officials to question the country’s course under Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

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Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech on GOP Turf

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By A. G. Sulzberger - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax and regulation to level the economic playing field.

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Despite Praise for Its Austerity, Ireland and Its People Are Being Battered

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Liz Alderman - Dec. 05 (Special Report) - The Irish example points to the dangers of simply squeezing ordinary people to pay off creditors rather than sharing the burden more broadly.

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Record Jump in Carbon Emissions in 2010, Study Finds - New York Times

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Justin Gillis - Dec. 04 (News Report) - Telegraph.co.uk Record Jump in Carbon Emissions in 2010, Study Finds New York Times Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery. ...Global industry CO2 output rising even in weak economy

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Op-Ed Columnist: Things to Tax

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman, New York Times - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - How about making increased revenue part of the remedy? And not just a return to Clinton-era tax rates.

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Go Big, Mr. Obama

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - President Obama has a clear choice on how to approach the 2012 election: He can spend all his energy defining Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich or whoever ends up as the Republican nominee in as ugly a way as possible, or he can spend all his energy defining the future in as credible a way as possible. If he spends his energy defining his Republican opponent, there is a chance the president will win with 50.00001 percent of the vote and no mandate to do what needs doing. If he spends his time defining the future in a credible way and offering a hard, tough, realistic pathway to get there, he will not only win, but he will have a mandate to take the country where we need to go.

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Boring, Cruel Euro Romantics

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - There’s a word I keep hearing lately: “technocrat.” Sometimes it’s used as a term of scorn — the creators of the euro, we’re told, were technocrats who failed to take human and cultural factors into account. Sometimes it’s a term of praise: the newly installed prime ministers of Greece and Italy are described as technocrats who will rise above politics and do what needs to be done.

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Failure Is Good

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - In Democrat-world, up is up and down is down. Raising taxes increases revenue, and cutting spending while the economy is still depressed reduces employment. But in Republican-world, down is up. The way to increase revenue is to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, and slashing government spending is a job-creation strategy.

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