THE WRITER of this Associated Press headline, appearing the week before the Republican National Convention in August, was either witty or clueless: “Obama Defends Tenor of His Campaign, Slams Romney.” The mixed metaphor almost seemed appropriate for such a mixed…

ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL ASPECTS of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding Obamacare was the speed with which journalists punctured the court’s secrecy. Three days after the ruling in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, CBS’s Jan Crawford,…

POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. Just ask Rand Paul and Tina Brown. Two days after President Obama made the dramatic yet unsurprising announcement that he supports same-sex marriage, Paul, Kentucky’s junior senator, joked to an Iowa crowd: “Call me cynical, but…

Linda Greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times’s Supreme Court correspondent in 1978. Thirty years later, when she accepted an early-retirement package from the financially stressed newspaper, Legal Times reported that a…

Last month in this space I discussed the New York Times editorial page’s enthusiastic support for the Obama administration’s birth-control insurance mandate. Since I filed that column, liberal politicians, reporters, and commentators have turned the issue into one of the…

New York Times editorials are often worth reading—stop laughing, I’m serious!—because they provide a window into the mindset of the liberal left, the ideological tendency that dominates many major cultural institutions and, for at least the next nine months, the…

Hilarity ensued in mid-january after Arthur Brisbane, “public editor” of the New York Times, posted a blog entry titled “Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?” He was compelled to publish a follow-up post hours later to reply to his…

Because my deadline for this column is two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, I can only guess at the shape of the Republican presidential race by the time you read it. As I write, it appears Newt Gingrich may be…

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was dazzled when he visited Occupy Wall Street in early October. “The protest reminded me a bit of Tahrir Square in Cairo,” Kristof exulted. “There is the same cohort of alienated young people,…

At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, terrorists destroyed a hijacked plane by crashing it into the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 8:41 a.m. on September 11, 2011, former Enron adviser Paul Krugman destroyed whatever was left…