Two quick comments on today's New York Times editorial: First, the Times begins with a remarkable normative assertion: "In bringing justice to those accused of plotting the Sept.

Yesterday, I wondered how the New York Times would treat Attorney General Holder's announcement of a military commission trial for the September 11 conspirators: "Will the Times praise Holder for respect...

The New York Times editorial today contains a notable omission: It does not say that the long-term detention of people at Guantanamo Bay is illegal. For those who have followed my quixotic campaign (here...

My friend Steve Walt weighs in against media patriotism.  But he gives the game away, I think, when he says: “There are undoubtedly some narrow circumstances when a patriotic journalist should decline to...

Glenn Greenwald has an interesting response to my post on the patriotism of American media, but he exaggerates the significance of the media’s patriotic bent, and he misses some important points. To beg...

In its story last week about the ties between the CIA and Raymond Davis, the American recently arrested in Pakistan, the New York Times offered this explanation for why it sat on the story: The New York ...