Op-Ed Contributor By
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG
WATCHING the 2008 presidential campaign, you sometimes get the feeling that the candidates — smart, all of them — must know better. They must know we can’t fix our economy and create jobs by isolating America from global trade. They must know that we can’t fix our immigration problems with […]
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by admin
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Op-Ed Columnist
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
While no woman has been president of the United States — yet — the world does have several thousand years’ worth of experience with female leaders. And I have to acknowledge it: Their historical record puts men’s to shame.
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Posted on February 10th, 2008 by admin
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Editorial
Even by the dismal standards of what passes for a national debate on intelligence and civil liberties, last week was a really bad week.
The Senate debated a bill that would make needed updates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — while needlessly expanding the president’s ability to spy on […]
Posted on February 10th, 2008 by admin
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Op-Ed Columnist
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The economic news has been fairly dire this week. The credit crunch is getting worse, and a widely watched indicator of trends in the service sector — which is most of the economy — has fallen off a cliff. It’s still not a certainty that we’re headed into recession, but […]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by admin
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Editorial
An envelope arrived in our office the other day. It had the bulky, tawdry look of junk mail: pink and lavender Easter eggs, a plastic address window and a photo of a young man in fatigue shorts using crutches to stand on his only leg. “Thousands of severely wounded […]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by admin
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Editorial
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and his hard-line allies rail against the United States and other external “enemies,” but who they really fear are their own citizens.
The president and his crowd are increasingly nervous about losing next month’s parliamentary elections, and next year’s presidential vote. Their cowardly solution? Keep […]
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by admin
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