Archives for Best Web OpEds
April 2013
Tuesday, April 30:
The Taliban spring offensive: What to watch for
Corporate Media and Sources of Deception
Keystone Pipeline Will Spill, Study Predicts (8 comments)
Syria: The Only Red Line Should Be To Stay Out
Radioactive Water Imperils Fukushima Plant - By MARTIN FACKLERNYTimes.com (3 comments)
Monday, April 29:
Limbaugh's 'Big Lie' Strategy (1 comments)
Former State Department Official: Team Bush Knew Many at Gitmo Were Innocent (2 comments)
E.J. Dionne: The economic whodunit
Paul Krugman: The Story of Our Time (1 comments)
Sunday, April 28:
Rand Paul Proved Himself This Week to Be Spineless
Saturday, April 27:
Congress heads home for recess, leaving to-do list behind (1 comments)
Boston: When the media gets it wrong
Bush's Long-Shot Campaign To Be Seen As Truman (2 comments)
Friday, April 26:
Obama: Planned Parentood Is "Not Going Anywhere" [Video] (1 comments)
Obama: Stay Out of Syria! (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: The 1 Percent's Solution (1 comments)
The Meaning of the Boston Lockdown: A Resident's Perspective | Socialist Organizer (2 comments)
Thursday, April 25:
Miss Him Yet? (3 comments)
Matt Taibbi - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever (1 comments)
The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid (6 comments)
Wednesday, April 24:
Voice from Yemen: Obama's Drones Stir 'Growing Hatred of America'
Bush's Legacy of Atrocities Is Nowhere to Be Seen at His New Library -- Local Paper Won't Run Ad That Tells the Truth (10 comments)
Lost in Space - By MAUREEN DOWD NYTimes.com
Remaking the Federal Reserve, Building Public Banks and Opting Out of Wall Street
Tuesday, April 23:
An Irrefutable Truth About the GOP
Monday, April 22:
The US Senate at work: Defeating background checks for gun purchases
Tim DeChristopher: Champion of Climate Movement Released on Eve of Earth Day | Common Dreams
Visa Reforms for Skilled Workers - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: The Jobless Trap (1 comments)
Restyled as Real Estate Trusts, Varied Businesses Avoid Taxes - By NATHANIEL POPPER NYTimes.com
The Jobless Trap - By PAUL KRUGMANNYTimes.com
Moving Ahead With Common Core - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Sunday, April 21:
GOP Now Bearish on Sanford's Chances in S.C.
U.S. Financier Backs China Scholarship Program - By KEITH BRADSHER NYTimes.com
Florida - Teachers Sue Over Evaluation System - MOTOKO RICH NYTimes.com
Chasing Truth. Catching Hell. - A Public Defender's Blog, @normdeguerreesq
Most terrorists are Muslim? A response to the ignorance at Sun News | eclipsenews (1 comments)
security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you've ever heard | Popehat (1 comments)
Graham, McCain: No criminal trial for captured suspect (1 comments)
Saturday, April 20:
Soft on Crime: Protecting the "Second Amendment Rights" of Thugs and Terrorists (1 comments)
David Attenborough - Humans are Plague on Earth - Telegraph (7 comments)
Texas plant explosion highlights gutting of health and safety rules (2 comments)
Analysts support media's focus on Boston over Texas explosion
transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt
Rubio Warns Republicans: If You Don't Support My Immigration Plan, Obama Will Just Legalize Everyone
Friday, April 19:
Mandatory E-Verify: A Giant Plunge Into a National ID System
Paul Krugman: The Excel Depression (1 comments)
Pete Peterson Economists Caught in Austerity Error (1 comments)
The Man in the Cowboy Hat: Meet Carlos Arredondo, a Hero of the Boston Bombings
Thursday, April 18:
The Senate Ignored Us | ThinkProgress
The Senate's cowardly act on gun control
Gabrielle Giffords: A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip (2 comments)
2 Teen Girls Kill Themselves After Rape Photos Circulate Online -- This Needs to Stop | Alternet
What Makes an Effective Teacher? Here are the Right and Wrong Roles | Alternet
Wednesday, April 17:
New Hampshire Lawmaker Calls All Women 'Vaginas' | ThinkProgress (3 comments)
Dan Froomkin: New Torture Report Blames Obama and the Media for Not Confronting the Truth (1 comments)
832 Billion Reasons for Immigration Reform | ThinkProgress (3 comments)
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American (1 comments)
How Bashar Al-Assad Became So Hated (1 comments)
Tuesday, April 16:
Goldman's Big Guns Fire Dud To Defend Megabanks
Richard Cohen: The gun bill's hocus-pocus (1 comments)
Monday, April 15:
Joseph Stiglitz: A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent (1 comments)
Gitmo Is Killing Me (1 comments)
Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - By MATT RICHTEL NYTimes.com
Tracking Student Reading - Letter to the NYTimes.com
Missouri School Trains Teachers to Carry Guns - By JOHN ELIGON NYTimes.com (2 comments)
With Tougher Standardized Tests, a Reminder to Breathe - KYLE SPENCER NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: The Antisocial Network
Sunday, April 14:
Rand Paul Has Lotsa 'Splaining To Do (1 comments)
The Orwellian Paradigm -- Killing You, For Your Own Safety
Michelle Rhee Cheating Investigation Memo Renews Calls For Further Probe Of D.C. Schools
The Federal Election Commission Is Mocked - NYTimes.com
Think Those Chemicals Have Been Tested? By IAN URBINA- NYTimes.com
Media Balance and Bias - By ROSS DOUTHAT NYTimes.com
Helping Teachers Learn -By BRENT STAPLES NYTimes.com
Saturday, April 13:
Teachers - Will We Ever Learn? - By JAL MEHTA NYTimes.com
Liberal Zionism at 65: Fantasy and reality | +972 Magazine
Gays and the Boy Scouts of America - The Observer (5 comments)
Friday, April 12:
Why Are Congressional Republicans Taking Dick Cheney's Advice On North Korea? (1 comments)
Thursday, April 11:
North Korea and the future of East Asia
One Of Liberals' Worst Fears About Obama Came True
Wednesday, April 10:
Baird's support for regime in Bahrain: All part of Canada's 'royal' foreign policy | rabble.ca
Stephen Lewis: The Wrong Side of History - YouTube (1 comments)
Tuesday, April 9:
Margaret Thatcher's Criminal Legacy (2 comments)
Obama may trade one flawed Social Security formula for another
Monday, April 8:
David Corn: Bursting the Thatcher Bubble (1 comments)
Tar Sands Oil May Increase Risk of Pipeline Spills
Robert Kennedy: Fully autonomous 'killer robots' Coming Soon
Paul Krugman: Insurance and Freedom
Sunday, April 7:
"American Dream": Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained
Becoming the "Stupid Party": GOP Tightens Its Own Noose
We've Wasted Our Timeout - THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN NYTimes.com
In History Departments, It's Up With Capitalism - JENNIFER SCHUESSLER NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Trading in the Dark - NYTimes.com
Origins of C.I.A.'s Not-So-Secret Drone War in Pakistan - MARK MAZZETTI NYTimes.com
Tax Lobby Builds Ties to Max Baucus - NYTimes.com
Our Nation in a Nutshell, summarized by Jeff Daniels (1 comments)
Jerry Brown's proposed fees for public information are a dreadful idea (1 comments)
Saturday, April 6:
Obama Caves on Social Security
Six Americans killed in Afghanistan as top US general arrives
Crime, Violence and Corruption In America (10 comments)
Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay (1 comments)
Friday, April 5:
Paul Krugman: The Urge to Purge (1 comments)
AG Holder: 'We Will Not Sit By' While Republicans Rig The Electoral College | ThinkProgress
Why Obama wants a Grand Bargain
Frank Apisa and Libby Liberal - Open Salon
Only Barack Obama Can Calm Crisis Surrounding North Korea
The Marginal Futility of Debt (1 comments)
Thursday, April 4:
Are We Heading Towards Cyprus or Socialism?
Rise of Dark-Pool Trading Concerns Regulators - NYTimes.com
Will Elizabeth Warren Be a Dragon Slayer or a Deal Maker?
Do North Korea's threats mask power struggle behind the scenes? (1 comments)
The Turkey-Israel Rapprochement
One Industry's Hold on the Senate - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Charles Koch Has No Power to Coerce Anybody; That's Why He Needs Government
Wednesday, April 3:
Lunatic Head of Gun Organization Says 'It's Time to Hunt Democrats' | Alternet
Why Was Atlanta's Beverly Hall Indicted For Racketeering While Michelle Rhee Won't Be? (24 comments)
Maureen Dowd: Happily Never After? (1 comments)
Tuesday, April 2:
America's Other Dark Legacy In Iraq
Monday, April 1:
LOL Of The Week: Scott Walker Keeps Blaming Workers
The Tar Sands Disaster - NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman: Lessons From a Comeback (1 comments)