From today's NYT. See the reflexive trope that Trump is "the leader of the free world". No room for considered reflection here.

"... in retaliation for ..." Sure. Who started this mad adventure?

Excuse me, NYT, but how is that a ‘minefield’?

I remember when the great and the good said Universities were hotbeds of communism. Times change I guess.

And more from this article--wasn't Germany part of "Western Christian civilization"?

Two excerpts from a NYT report:

It's a bit rich for American AI companies to accuse others of copying.

Just wow (from theNYT's piece on the destruction caused by RFK Jr:

Shouldn't that be 'because'?

An extract from an essay by Stefan Collini in the London Review of Books (48/10:

Wouldn't whole-hearted support of illegal killing be shameful?

So Lebanon has no right to defend itself?

From a post on Twitter:

Absolutely. He also nailed Musk at the same time: And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

"plot" is not a verb the NYT would use to describe US arms sales to other countries:

Well-drawn and amusing New Yorker cartoons are pretty rare these days.

From The Atlantic’s piece on Patel. The writer so conditioned by national myth that the phrase “state sponsor of terrorism” slips easily in.

At first glance I thought it was an image of a very attractive fountain pen.

Zionism built Israel on violence.

What can you say?

Dear NYT, there was peace before you bastards attacked.

A disingenuous editorial from the Washington Post:

Hard to judge ... Vance *is* catholic too ...

So killing unarmed civilians is not a matter of morality?

A practical-minded people, not much concerned with morality or legality: