New: opedAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krhive-180932steemhive-150122zzanhive-166405hive-183959hive-185836photographyhive-144064hive-145157hive-183397hive-101145uncommonlabhive-188619hive-184714hive-103599hive-139150hive-109690hive-180301hive-193637hive-138689hive-141434TrendingNewHotLikerszafrada (78)in wapo • 5 months agoThis piece has all sorts of accurate points about public trust, but it can't escape this central problem.Lol. "I must restore trust at the newspaper by overriding the editorial board's autonomy such that its readership will never trust it to be independent ever again." It would be one thing for the…arbitration (78)in atlantic • 9 months agoIt’s manifestly obvious that Biden is not suited to serve another term.I’ve gotten some pushback on my assertion on this and to be honest, It’s a bit astonishing to me. This essay is about 80% exactly what I’d say myself. The other 20% is extra arguments on the same…pomeline (79)in biden • 9 months agoPerry Bacon Jr. basically being my internal monologue here.This is the best summary of all of this I've seen and the thorny questions ahead. It was FiveThirtyEight/Nate Silver's loss when they got rid of him. I agree with him I think Biden will be the…zafrada (78)in nyt • 9 months agoNYT is publishing a lot of trash opinion pieces.This is a silly opinion piece for the Times to publish. We are talking about polling in July for cripes' sake. If we used the logic in this piece in previous elections, we'd be talking about…pomeline (79)in bret • 10 months agoWhat is the most courageous thing that Biden can do?The ironic part of this column is he wrote it two days after convicted felon Trump bizarrely ranted about sharks and electric batteries. I always like how these pieces always act like a brokered…bumblecat (78)in times • 10 months agoWhat's with the Times lately?I generally find Tufekci okay, but this piece is extremely revisionist. This was my fear that'd we'd just do revisionist history with the benefit of hindsight rather than actual postmortems of the…pomeline (79)in covid • 10 months agoRuling out engineered.Great long thread on Bluesky from Kristian Andersen showing how so much of Alina Chan's New York Times opinion piece on coronavirus origins is steeped in an elaborate conspiracy theory when you…bumblecat (78)in times • 10 months agoSo the Times I guess doesn't fact-check its opinion pieces anymore?Alina Chan keeps posting the same wrong and misleading arguments over and over again. The deep irony of this opinion piece is the very first point in it is literally how SARS emerged via natural…arbitration (78)in nyt • 10 months agoNicholas Kristof makes multiple false arguments about Israel and Hamas.In Saturday’s NYT op-ed, Kristof wrote that “All lives have equal value….” No, they don’t! The life of a serial killer does NOT have equal value to the lives of his innocent victims. Hitler’s…nooses (78)in nyt • 10 months agoWhy has no. of female executives fallen?Easy. #metoo painted all men as sexual predators so men have adopted the Mike Pence rule of never meeting with a woman alone. Men stopped socializing with women after work and stopped working on…zafrada (78)in yglesias • 11 months agoFull self-driving is underhyped?This is a good piece. I think people generally are too pessimistic on self-driving cars. He's got a good discussion on how most of the barriers at this point are regulatory and social rather than…nooses (78)in mcwhorter • 11 months ago“The Columbia demonstrations have gone way too far”That was the title of John McWhorter’s article that I received as an email. I subscribe to several NY Times services, and one of them consists of McWhorter’s articles. The title of this exact same…nooses (78)in gender • last yearWhat a bizarre opinion piece.Sex assignment goes back many decades. It isn't some recent activist terminology. This whole piece operates on some weird logic that saying assigned at birth somehow denies male and female sex.…leguna (78)in kasparov • last yearKasparov on the Moscow attack.I’m a big fan of Kasparov, though I think the simpler “how did this happen” explanation is that Russian law enforcement is corrupt, incompetent, and cowardly. As we repeatedly saw in the Soviet…arbitration (78)in israel • last yearWhat a weird headline and opinion piece.This author tries to thread a bizarre needle. So simultaneously Israel isn't committing genocide in Gaza because there is no genocidal intent, but also senior Israeli politicians in influential…bumblecat (78)in oped • last yearWhat caused inflation in the first place?What Krugman is getting wrong is who/what caused the inflation in the first place: The Federal Reserve fully accommodated government deficit spending by open market purchases of Treasuries with…zafrada (78)in ukraine • 2 years agoThe New York Times editorial board comes out against the US supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine.This isn't a new position fwiw. They've been consistently against these munitions for many years. "While it is Ukraine’s decision to choose what weapons it uses in its defense, it is for America…nooses (78)in klein • 2 years agoAI and hallucinating?Naomi Klein largely lost me when she commenced with her annoying beating of the drum on anthropomorphic climate change without articulating the scope of the financial scam that it is sure to pose a…leguna (78)in oped • 2 years agoIt’s useful to read not only the well-written, thoughtful opinion pieces, but at least some of the dumb-ass ones as well.Today’s WaPo op-ed by Brian Broome fits squarely into the dumb-ass category. In an over-the-top, straw-man fashion, Broome writes that “Perhaps to some, masculinity only means that you are…zafrada (78)in politico • 2 years agoCircular opinion piece with no opinion.This is without a doubt the weirdest opinion piece I've ever read. Spends half the piece repeating his point without elaborating. Then when he finally gets to elaborating it is to acknowledge that…
