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Raymond J. Learsy: Energy Exports Are Good! But!

2013-05-20T06:44:44Z

Unlimited exports of U.S. natural gas without restoring honest supply-and-demand-based markets worldwide will permit us to kiss goodbye to the jobs that would have been created, as gas prices will be pumped to artificially determined world levels, much to the glee of the 'oil patch.'

Read more: Opec, Dow Chemical, Gas and Oil, European Union, New York Times, EU Oil Probe, Collusion, Joe Nocera, Justice Department, Commodity Exchanges, Business News

Joel Rubin: Syria, Iran and the Red Lines Trap

2013-05-17T17:27:51Z

President Obama should stick to his red line policy toward Syria and avoid advancing a red line policy toward Iran that will tie his hands. That may frustrate his domestic critics, but it makes America's adversaries nervous. And this is exactly where we should want our country's foreign policy to be.

Read more: Foreign Affairs, War, Iran Sanctions, Iran, Diplomacy, Barack Obama, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Cnn, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, Syria Chemical Weapons, Israel, Syria, North Korea, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics News

New York Times Says Website Attacked

2013-05-17T17:21:09Z

The New York Times said Friday that its website was attacked earlier this week.

The newspaper made the revelation while reporting on the Syrian El...

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David Katz, M.D.: Pretense and Defense of Our Skin in the Game

2013-05-15T17:56:13Z

The world is ever smaller. Flu strains incubating in China can be in New York or LA or DC in the span of a day. This is a world in which an incurable bacterial disease, spread by a tiny insect native to Asia, decimates the citrus crop in Florida.

Read more: Healthy Living Health News, Ecosystems, Public Health, Pandemic, Earth, Wildlife Conservation, Outbreak, Dr. Steve Osofsky, Avian Flu, Emerging Diseases, Health, Dr. David Katz, Zoonoses, Coronavirus, New York Times, Envrionment, Climate Change, Influenza, Pandemics, Pandemic Preparedness, Contagion, Healthy Living News

Money On The Bench

2013-05-15T15:36:43Z

A running calculation, updated daily, of what major league baseball teams are paying players who are on the disabled list....

Read more: New York Times, Baseball, Mlb, Mlb Disabled List, Sports News

Joe Peyronnin: A.P. and the A.G.

2013-05-14T12:08:26Z

The U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of two months of phone records for reporters and editors of the Associated Press is a reckless violation of the First Amendment. There is nothing more sacred in the American democracy than freedom of the press.

Read more: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Ap, Freedom of the Press, Irs, John Boehner, Eric Holder Attorney General, President Barack Obama, The New York Times, Benghazi, Republicans, U.S. Constitution, Tea Party, Osama Bin Laden, Ap Phone Records, Politics News

Lev Raphael: Authors Can Be Trapped by TMI

2013-05-14T06:42:32Z

Some authors, begging for attention, even go overboard and live too much of their lives in social media, recording every twitch of consciousness as if the fate of publishing depended on it. Their neediness -- however disguised -- is epic and sometimes pathetic.

Read more: Frank Bruni, Authors, Social Media, Reddit, Twitter, Author Blogs, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Facebook, Instagram, Blogging, Texting, Books News

Leo W. Gerard: The Downtoning of America

2013-05-13T07:47:23Z

Republicans want to kill the government that accomplished that. They want to go back to Downton Abbey days. The rich stay rich; the poor stay servants.

Read more: Unemployment, President Obama, Lady Mary, Meals on Wheels, Manufacturing Institutes, Lady Mary Crawley, Tax Cuts, Downton Abbey, Manufacturing Hubs, New York Times, Head Start, Ethel Parks, Sequester, Crawley, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Income Inequality, Austerity, Video, Politics News

New York Times Reporter Kicked Out Of Pakistan

2013-05-10T21:16:10Z

NEW YORK — Pakistan is expelling The New York Times' Islamabad bureau chief on the eve of national elections, accusing him of unspecified "undes...

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Pakistan Orders NYT Bureau Chief To Leave

2013-05-10T16:32:58Z

Pakistan's Interior Ministry has ordered the expulsion of The New York Times bureau chief in Islamabad on the eve of national elections, the newspaper...

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Gregg S. Lipman: Can Manhattan Get Its Groove Back?

2013-05-10T11:18:59Z

Brooklyn shouldn't get too comfy with its current cool status; it's just a matter of time before the borough suffers a backlash as well, and the cool hunters go in search of the next big thing.

Read more: Manhattan, Run DMC, Bronx, Local, Brooklyn, Beyonce, Cbgb, New York Times, Queens, Diy, Brand, Staten Island, Indie, New York, Barclays Center, Jay-Z, Groove, New York News

Tyler Kingkade: The Real 'Me Generation'

2013-05-09T20:23:28Z

Every generation has its quirks, its slang, its flaws, but it seems too often Gen-Xers in primarily old media outlets cast the behavior of teenagers in the millennial generation as representative of everyone in the age group, whether they're 14 or 29.

Read more: Millennials, The Me Generation, The Me Me Me Generation, Time, Joel Stein, 20-Somethings, Millennial Geneartion, New York Times, Generation Y, Joel Stein the Me Generation, Generation Gap, College News

Andy Plesser: TIMES' RICK BERKE: Video Will Become as "Central" as Text on the Web and the Printed Paper

2013-05-09T12:39:03Z

The New York Times, long a pioneer in producing feature video for the Web, is readying a significant expansion of its video news programming, says Tim...

Read more: New York Times, Rick Berke, Video, Media News

Alec Baldwin: How Broadway Has Changed

2013-05-07T10:43:11Z

I have not acted in a legit show on Broadway since A Streetcar Named Desire in 1992, having chosen the not-for-profit route on Broadway or regional for my last four shows. Broadway has changed in the past 21 years and I wanted take a moment to look at that.

Read more: Broadway, Ben Brantley, Frank Rich, A Streetcar Named Desire, Orphans, Theater News, Theatre, New York Times, Theater, Theatre Reviews, Arts News

Greg Mitchell: Iraq Revisited: Bill Keller Turns Hawk Again, This Time on Syria

2013-05-07T10:18:29Z

Keller concludes: "Whatever we decide, getting Syria right starts with getting over Iraq." Then we can get over Syria -- with Iran? Remember when Iraq was supposed to help us "get over" Vietnam?

Read more: Syria, New York Times, Iraq, Wmd, Judith Miller, Bill Keller, Sarin, Syria Sarin, Syria Chemical Weapons, Media News

Daniel R. Schwarz: How I Wrote My Book Endtimes? Crisis and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009

2013-05-07T05:19:41Z

As a lifelong reader of the Times, I was interested in how the Times was evolving in the face of the rising influence of the Internet and the changing business model in which advertisers were taking less space if any in the print paper.

Read more: Dan Okrent, Bill Keller, Jill Abramson New York Times, What Sets the Times Apart, New York Times, Digital Journalism, How I Was Able to Write Endtimes?, How I Was Able to Get One on One Interviews, Future-of-New-York-Times, Times Business Model, Media News

Greg White: Hinoki & The Bird: Didn't Fly for Me

2013-05-06T08:46:40Z

We eat with our eyes first. Before I went to Chef David Myers' new Century City swankery, Hinoki & The Bird, I read online reviews as my amuse bouche.

Read more: Restaurants, David Myers Chef, Jay Weston, Los Angeles Restaurants, Hinoki-and-Bird, Restaurant Reviews, Los Angeles Restaurant Reviews, New York Times, Chefs, Century City, Top Chef, David-Myers-Hinoki-and-the-Bird, Los Angeles News

Meg Waite Clayton: Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview

2013-05-06T08:29:31Z

"I love books and movies that grab you from the get-go, and I always believe that a book is a question that demands an answer, so I like starting that way. But my writing always starts with a question that haunts me -- How do we know the ones we love?"

New Site Re-Examines Past News Stories

2013-05-05T06:00:00Z

NEW YORK –- On CBS, Dan Rather called the Mobro barge “the most-watched load of garbage in the memory of man." Over on NBC, Tom Brokaw described h...

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David Katz, M.D.: Do Doctors Really Discriminate Against The Overweight?

2013-05-03T08:20:51Z

Obesity bias needs to be fixed. We are most likely to fix it when standing on a solid bedrock of understanding it at its origins. We can then replace the crude and obsolete survival-related imperatives bestowed to us in our genes, with the better angels of our nature.

Read more: Healthy Living Health News, Evolutionary Biology, Obesity, Prejudice, Survival, Tara Parker-Pope, Health, Bias, Dr. David Katz, Food, Obesity Bias, New York Times, Doctors, Weight Loss, Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity America, Healthy Living News

Curtis Ellis: Disgraced Financier Rattner Clueless About the Economy

2013-05-02T13:32:47Z

Apparently, the nation's most prestigious newspaper feels Rattner's financial acumen and half-vast experience in manufacturing -- manufacturing kickback schemes, that is -- qualifies him to hold forth on what ails the economy.

Read more: Outsourcing, Free Trade, Wall Street, Bailout, Steve Rattner, Pensions, New York Times, Andrew Cuomo, Business News

John W. Boyd Jr.: Shame on The New York Times for Their Black Farmers and "Spigot" Story

2013-05-02T09:57:11Z

Shame on The New York Times for the bias that was so evident in last week's front page story titled "Federal Spigot Flows as Farmers Claim Bias." It c...

Read more: Farmers Home Administration, Restitution, Black Farmers, New York Times, Minority Farmers, Usda, Farmers, Black Voices News

Michael Calderone: New York Times Names New Political Editor

2013-05-01T17:22:21Z

New York Times makes major moves.

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Taibbi Rips On New York Times Columnist

2013-05-01T17:08:46Z

Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi took to Twitter Wednesday to vent about Thomas Friedman's latest column in the New York Times. Of course, Taibbi i...

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Rob Asghar: Panic or Profit: Two Distinct Approaches to the Literary Revolution

2013-04-30T16:14:47Z

A less-well known group of literary figures have taken an opposite approach to championing books -- by capitalizing on the very changes that have even spooked thriller novelist James Patterson.

Read more: Book Reviews, Authors, Future of Publishing, New York Times, Book Publishing, Writers, Children's Books, Books, Books News