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Editorial

• November 16 -- Burying Vote Fraud Accusations -- And Digging Them Up Again
On Friday, reporter Tom Zeller debunked Internet allegations of anti-Kerry vote fraud. But two days later, a Times editorial lent credence to those same left-wing accusations: "The blogosphere, in particular, has been full of questions: Why did electronic voting machines in Ohio add nearly 4,000 phantom votes for President Bush, and why did machines in Florida mysteriously start to count backward?"

• November 3 -- Will the Times Take Its Own Advice?
From the Times' post-election, pre-concession lead editorial: "When a victor is finally, officially announced, it is important for the entire country to accept him as the rightful president." But will Bill Keller?

• November 2 -- Bloggers Break On to NYT's Op-ed Page
The Times op-ed page gives bloggers their due.

• October 21 -- "Why Taxes Have to Go Up"
Credit the Times editorial page for candor.

• October 18 -- The Suspense Is Over: NYT Endorses Kerry
Surprise!

• October 18 -- Making Ted Kennedy Look Moderate
Editorial writer Adam Cohen lays out the fearsome fruits of a potential second term for Bush: "Abortion might be a crime in most states. Gay people could be thrown in prison for having sex in their homes. States might be free to become mini-theocracies, endorsing Christianity and using tax money to help spread the gospel."

• October 15 -- The Times Lashes Out at Sinclair Broadcasting
In an editorial on the controversy over the Sinclair Broadcasting Group airing the anti-Kerry documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal," the Times repeats the unsubstantiated claim that Bush accuses war opponents of lacking patriotism and indulges in some hyperbolic hand-wringing: "Sinclair is in dangerous territory." But how big is the Sinclair "threat"?

• October 5 -- 2nd Amendment Right to "Nail Bambi with an AK-47"
More snotty editorial commentary on guns: "In between reinstating every hunter's sacred Second Amendment right to nail Bambi with an AK-47…."

• September 30 -- Bush Admin Called Critics "Unpatriotic"…When, Exactly?
The Times editorializes on a Tony Blair speech defending the Iraq war: "…at least the words 'apologize' and 'wrong' were put on record, and his critics were not called unpatriotic."

• September 28 -- Skipping Ted Kennedy's Incendiary Claims
The Times covers an "acerbic" Ted Kennedy speech but leaves out the part where Kennedy claims Bush has made a "nuclear 9/11" in the U.S. more likely.

• September 27 -- Bush's "Un-American" Campaign
"President Bush and his surrogates are taking their re-election campaign into dangerous territory" is the baleful opening sentence of a Times editorial, "An Un-American Way to Campaign."

• September 22 -- No "Surprise" Here: Times Plays Up Bush Guard Story
The Times editorializes: "…it was somewhat surprising that Mr. Bush's National Guard service again became a big topic of debate." Yet the Times put the controversy on its front page twice recently. Plus: The editors finally tackle Memogate.

• September 21 -- Florida Now, Florida Forever for the Times
The Times editorial page still hasn't recovered from Florida 2000, and also accuses Bush of "sweeping aside the Constitution."

• September 9 -- Taking Cheney Far Out of Context, Again
Katharine Seelye and Ralph Blumenthal treat seriously the new controversy over Bush's Vietnam service--quite a change from how the Times treated the Swift Boat Veterans.

• August 19 -- How Dare Anyone Cover Charges by Swift Boat Vets
The editorial page goes negative on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and attacks other media for daring to report the story: "The assault is gaining attention, with Internet and cable television zealots debating combat minutiae and even whether Mr. Kerry enacted wartime events with his political future in mind or held secret meetings with Communists."

• August 17 -- The "Campaign Against Political Dissent"?
The Times editorial page Tuesday gets a bit overwrought about the alleged governmental threat to civil liberties: "The F.B.I.'s questioning of protesters is part of a larger campaign against political dissent that has increased sharply since the start of the war on terror."

• August 5 -- "Terror Alerts" When Bush "Would Have Benefited"
In contrast to a front-page story, a Times editorial keeps its suspicions up regarding Bush's terror-threat timing: "Some of the past terror alerts have seemed aimless and happened when the Bush administration would have benefited from a change in the political conversation."

• August 4 -- Bush Playing Politics With Terror?, Part I
A lead editorial obnoxiously suggests Bush is playing political games with terror warnings: "….it's unfortunate that it is necessary to fight suspicions of political timing, suspicions the administration has sown by misleading the public on security." But a front-page report today, armed with more facts, takes a more sober view of the terror threat.

• July 28 -- Howell Raines' Anti-Republican Rage
Now that former Executive Editor Howell Raines is off his NYT leash, his shrieking excoriations of Republicans are even more entertaining: "As long as affluent, educated Republicans are allowed to control wealth in this country, they're willing for the rednecks to pray in the public schools that rich Republicans don't attend, to buy guns at Wal-Marts they don't patronize, to ban safe abortions that are always available to the affluent, and to oppose marriage for gays who don't vote Republican anyway."

• July 22 -- The Right's Latest Victim: Linda Ronstadt?
The Times engages in liberal hand-wringing over hostile audience reaction to Linda Ronstadt's in-concert tribute to Michael Moore, in an Arts story and an editorial (yes, an editorial).

• July 16 -- More Mea Culpas: Forgive Us for Thinking Iraq Had WMD
Continuing to apologize for believing the Bush administration too much on Iraq (?), the Times issues a surprising lead editorial apologizing for thinking, like everyone else, that Saddam had WMD.

• July 15 -- FMA "Writing Bigotry Into the Constitution"
A lead editorial omits some facts about the gay marriage debate to make conservatives appear cynical, while accusing them of "writing bigotry into the Constitution."

• July 9 -- The "Repressive," "Authoritarian" Iraqi Chief--Iyad Allawi?
A lead editorial describes an Iraqi strongman with "authoritarian tendencies" and "repressive reflexes." Former dictator Saddam Hussein? No--current prime minister Iyad Allawi.

• July 8 -- "Sensual" Stalinist Poet Neruda Embraced "Social Justice"
Carolyn Curiel pens a tribute to deceased Communist poet Pablo Neruda: "a sensual communist who loved nature almost as much as he loved women, food and wine.…for Neruda, love and beauty vied for attention with social justice." Curiel doesn't mention Neruda's other love: Stalin.

• July 6 -- The Times Gets Another Military Matter All Wrong
The lead editorial opens: "The Pentagon's decision to press 5,600 honorably discharged soldiers back into service, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the latest example of President Bush's refusal to face the true costs of pre-emptive war." But the Times has it wrong.

• June 21 -- There They Go Again: Ronald Reagan, Anti-Gun
And liberals accuse conservatives of using Reagan for political ends: More cynical Reagan exploitation on the editorial page.

• June 17 -- Bush's "Dishonest" War Efforts
An editorial on the 9-11 interim report begins: "It's hard to imagine how the commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks could have put it more clearly yesterday: there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11." The report actually confirms a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, but that doesn't stop the editorial page from calling Bush dishonest.

• June 10 -- Locking Up the Abu Ghraib Offenders
Abu Ghraib month continues on the Times op-ed page, stacked with three op-eds on the prison abuse scandal, two of which advocate a rounding up of offenders.

• June 9 -- Laying Blame for Abu Ghraib on Bush
A Times lead editorial, "The Roots of Abu Ghraib," goes all out to link Bush to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse: "Each new revelation makes it more clear that the inhumanity at Abu Ghraib grew out of a morally dubious culture of legal expediency and a disregard for normal behavior fostered at the top of this administration."

• June 8 -- The Iraq War: Definitely Not Like D-Day, Could Be Vietnam
Sunday's lead editorial, "June 6, 1944," is a ham-handed attempt at subtly suggesting that no matter what Bush may say, the war in Iraq has no parallels with D-Day.

• June 8 -- Using and Abusing Reagan's Memory, Part I
The Times editorial page puts Reagan's memory to use to push stem-cell research--a procedure opposed by social conservatives and pro-lifers (a group to which Reagan belonged).

• June 7 -- Reagan and the Virtue of "Simplicity"
The Times editorial remembrance of Reagan finds the secret to Reagan's success in good luck and pays the president a backhanded compliment for his "simplicity."

• June 4 -- "Ludicrous Visions" of US Troops Showered With Flowers?
An editorial on George Tenet's resignation slams "one of the more ludicrous visions offered by Mr. Rumsfeld's team, like the one of grateful Iraqis showering American soldiers with flowers." Yet the paper's own reporting shows that "ludicrous vision" was absolutely accurate.

• June 2 -- "Sloth, Greed And Fear" to Blame for Kyoto Rejection
The Sunday Book Review features a round-up review of several environmental doomsayer books by editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg, who quotes discredited environmental hysteric Paul Ehrlich and puts resistance to the Kyoto Protocol down to "custom, ignorance, sloth, greed and fear."

• May 28 -- It's Only a Movie, Guys
Can a new environmental disaster movie with a ludicrous premise help the crusade against "global warming"? A Times' editorial board member hopes so. (Remember when Dan Quayle got ripped for allegedly confusing TV with reality?)

• May 26 -- The Times' WMD Mea Culpa
The Times engages in some unusual self-criticism in a long Editor's Note, accusing itself of excessive gullibility regarding claims of WMD in Iraq. Such self-criticism should be encouraged. But why stop there?

• May 19 -- Sarin? So What
An editorial soft-pedals the finding of deadly sarin gas in Iraq and pooh-poohs any possibility that it confirms Allied fears of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction: "If laboratory tests confirm the presence of sarin, that finding may not tell us much about whether Saddam Hussein retained a hidden chemical arsenal after supposedly destroying it." Columnist William Safire thinks differently.

• May 10 -- Bush's Tax Cuts Killing Social Programs?
A Times editorial states: "The Bush administration's tax cuts for the well-to-do have taken a heavy toll on the nation's most important social programs for the poor and working class."

• April 19 -- International Death Match
The Times critiques Bush on the death penalty: "Citizens in most other democracies in the world are appalled that the United States still has a death penalty." But is that true, or merely liberal conventional wisdom?

• April 15 -- The Return of Incurious George
A sensible editorial is marred by eagerness to reduce Bush to a cartoon figure: "Americans knew George W. Bush was an incurious man when they elected him, but the hearings of the 9/11 investigating commission, which turned yesterday from the F.B.I.'s fecklessness to the C.I.A.'s blurred vision, have brought that fact home in a startling way."

• April 14 -- The Anonymous Ashcroft Memo
An editorial on the FBI's pre-9/11 failures dismisses a memo introduced by John Ashcroft and fails to mention the most interesting part of the story--the memo's author.

• April 13 -- Taking Another Quack at Scalia
Dredging up Justice Scalia's "Duck-Gate."

• April 8 -- Send Me No Flowers
In an editorial marking the one-year anniversary of the Iraq war, the Times claimed the "administration…seemed to believe its own talk about American soldiers' being greeted with flowers as an army of liberation." But the Times itself says that they were.

• March 25 -- Clinton "Distracted" from Terror "By Threat of Impeachment"
The Times blasts the "lack of urgency" of the Bush administration's pre-9/11 terror efforts in an editorial on Richard Clarke's testimony--and offers a lame excuse for Clinton's inaction.

• March 8 -- There They Go Again
A Times editorial resurrects the old "imminent threat" canard.

• March 2 -- Cleland Wuz Robbed!
Editorial writer Adam Cohen spreads paranoia in a story on electronic voting machines, hinting that just maybe there's some doubt about two Republican Senate wins in 2002.

• March 1 -- Haitian Divorce
While an editorial criticizes Bush for being too slow to intervene in Haiti, a Tim Weiner story from Port-au-Prince features criticism of Bush for having intervened at all.

• February 25 -- Rejecting Bush's Marriage Proposal
A lead editorial distorts Bush's position on a gay marriage amendment: "The president's speech was a call for taking rights away from gay Americans."

• February 23 -- Noam Chomsky Makes the NYT
Radical left-winger and anti-American Noam Chomsky makes his apparent debut on the Times op-ed page--ironically, with a piece calling on the U.S. to pressure a foreign nation.

• January 28 -- Bush "Taking Away Civil Liberties"
A Times editorial cries wolf over the Patriot Act and takes an unlikely shot against Bush's tax cuts: "There are better ways to make the country safe….But the money to do such things is in short supply after the president's tax cuts. Taking away civil liberties may not expand Mr. Bush's gaping budget deficit, but its price in lost freedom is more than we can afford."

• January 27 -- Accuracy on Ice: The Times on Global Warming
Sunday's editorial page lets off steam about Bush on global warming--but the paper's embarrassing history on the subject suggests it should cool its jets.

• January 19 -- No Recess From Anti-Judge Pickering Slurs
A Times editorial denounces Bush for his recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering and again drops hints of racial insensitivity.

• January 15 -- "Love Story," Starring Paul O'Neill
Times editor Andres Martinez likes Paul O'Neill's book and "Bill Clinton's fiscal discipline," dislikes the Bush administration's "shoddy, if not dishonest, decision-making."

• January 14 -- A "Mean Mood" in US Knocks Down Liberal Legislation
Liberal editorial writer Adam Cohen laments the "mean mood" that's settled on the country and bashes a Supreme Court that's "made it easier to discriminate against older workers, blind people and cancer victims."

• January 2 -- The U.S. vs. the U.N--Guess Which Side the Times Takes?
Amidst a laundry list of alleged Bush sins against internationalism, a Times editorial defends the United Nations against the "unilateral" U.S. and laments "Washington's rush to invade" Iraq.

• December 10 -- "Destroying the Village" in Iraq
More Iraq as Vietnam in an editorial: "Unwelcome as Vietnam analogies are right now, it's hard to ignore the resemblance to that infamous military comment about having to destroy a village in order to save it."

• December 5 -- "Tenacious" Humans Destroying the Planet
A Times editorial uses a scientific study to label humanity a planetary pest with a "tenacious occupation of the globe," responsible for mass extinction of other species.

• December 4 -- Kyoto: Russia Balks, But Bush Blamed
Russia is having second thoughts about ratifying the environmental decree known as the Kyoto Protocol, but instead of pinning the "blame" on Russia, a Times editorial finds a more appealing bogeyman: "Indeed, it can be argued that Russia would not be having second thoughts about the Kyoto accord had Mr. Bush himself decided not to bail out."

• November 10 -- “Apocalypse Pretty Soon,” Starring Undertaxed California
Brent Staples finds a villain more terrifying than any movie monster--Proposition 13, the 1978 California ballot initiative that capped property taxes.

• November 7 -- 2003: CBS Wrong to Cave Into Conservative Pressure; 2002: CBS Wrong NOT to Cave Into Liberal Pressure
A Times editorial accuses conservative groups of creating a "Soviet-style chill" by pressing CBS on "The Reagans." But when a feminist group pressured CBS on the Masters, the Times trumpeted the "pull the plug" cause.

• October 23 -- Gov. Bush's "Ghoulish Journey" to Save Terri Schiavo
A Times editorial takes Florida Gov. Bush to task for preserving Terri Schiavo's life: "The State Legislature and Gov. Jeb Bush have mocked the courts' careful deliberations and embarked on a ghoulish medical journey by directing that her feeding resume." Apparently the Times finds nothing at all "ghoulish" in letting a brain-damaged woman starve to death.

• October 22 -- Christian General Biased, Notes Anti-Semitic PM
A Times editorial calls for the firing of Lt. Gen. William Boykin for remarks he made to a church group--and cites as credible criticism from Malaysia's anti-Jewish prime minister.

• October 20 -- Times Editor Explains Tax Policy to Alabamans
Thank goodness Adam Cohen is around to tell Alabamans how to vote!

• October 13 -- Adam Cohen's Charming Conservative Assumptions
Writing about an Indian-American Republican's first-round win in the Louisiana governor's race, editorialist Adam Cohen declares: "If even a small percentage of white conservatives hold his ethnicity against him, it could cost him the election."

• September 25 -- President Bush, Bubble-Boy-in-Chief
When Bush told Fox News he rarely reads newspapers, he apparently hurt the Times’ feelings: “It is worrisome when one of the most incurious men ever to occupy the White House takes pains to insist that he gets his information on what the world is saying only in predigested bits from his appointees.”

• September 22 -- Their Own Personal Vietnam
A Times editorial leaps into the Big Muddy: “The Bush administration always bristles when people attempt to draw any parallels between the quagmire in Vietnam and the current situation in Iraq.”

• September 22 -- Cucumber-Flinging Monkeys Fight for Fairness
Adam Cohen’s editorial summarizes a study of the group behavior of capuchin monkeys: “In a week when fairness was so evidently on the ropes--from the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, which poor nations walked out of in frustration, to the latest issue of Forbes, reporting that the richest 400 Americans are worth $955 billion--the capuchin monkeys offered a glimmer of hope from the primate gene pool.”

• August 19 -- Adam Cohen’s Constitutional Wrongs
An editorial by Adam Cohen uses a tour of Philadelphia’s new Constitution museum to accuse Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas of scuttling constitutional rights. A former lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Cohen’s one of a few Times editorial board members with liberal backgrounds.

• August 13 -- Slammin’ Alabama
An editorial excoriates Alabama’s chief justice for “demagoguing about the Ten Commandments” and “ignoring the Constitution's mandates on the separation of church and state” (before comparing him to Gov. George Wallace). But there’s no “separation of church and state” mandate in the Constitution.

• August 4 -- Not Ready for Prime Time On Crime
A Times editorial defends D.C.’s useless gun ban: “Erroneously proclaiming Washington the murder capital of the nation, [Sen.] Hatch, the Utah Republican, would make it easier for residents to brandish handguns at home and in the workplace.” But Hatch is right: the FBI reports D.C. was the nation’s murder capital last year.

• August 4 -- A Coal Mine of Bias
The Times editorializes on a Senate proposal to limit global warming, “an issue on which the world has spoken clearly [via the Kyoto Protocol] but Congress has remained irresponsibly silent for too long.” But Congress did speak on the issue--just not the way the Times wanted.

• August 1 -- Times Editor Admits To Media Bias…On the Right
Editorial page editor Gail Collins: “The right in this country has been so much more successful in developing over recent years an advocacy media, a media that doesn’t try to be objective, a media that tries to push its own agenda.”

• July 31 -- Our Incoherent President
A Times editorial argues: “Bush should have been able to come up with better responses to two big and obvious questions: why he ordered the invasion of Iraq and why he pushed for tax cuts that have left the nation sinking into a hopeless quagmire of debt.” That’s before it lambastes “Mr. Bush’s vague and sometimes nearly incoherent answers.”

• July 8 -- “Crime Falling, Yet Prisons Still Filling,” Part XVIII
An editorial by Adam Cohen repeats a cherished bit of Times crime naivete: “After a three-decade surge, which has continued even as crime rates have dropped…”

• July 7 -- “Conservative” Communists?
“Hong Kong’s Message of Freedom” is a welcome editorial against Communist China’s repression of dissent in Hong Kong, but demonstrates the typical liberal media tactic of figuring out who the bad guys are, then labeling them “conservative.”

• July 7 -- Democracy Can Wait --We’ve Got Taxes to Raise
A Saturday editorial doesn’t let the expansion of voting rights get in the way of supporting a tax hike.