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Palin Loses Defamation Retrial
Palin Loses Defamation Retrial
Apr 22, 2025 4:26 PM CDT

Palin Loses Defamation Retrial

Jury decides New York Times did not libel her with 2017 editorial

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is now 0 for 2 in defamation lawsuits against the New York Times. After around two hours of deliberations, a jury decided Tuesday that the Times did not libel the former Alaska governor with an editorial in 2017 that suggested rhetoric from her political action committee had contributed...

Larry David's Essay Takes Bill Maher to Task

Comedian tweaks fellow comic over his meeting with Trump

(Newser) - Larry David wrote a satirical essay for the New York Times on Monday in which he envisioned a critic of Adolf Hitler having dinner with the German dictator in 1939 and coming away charmed. A day later, the chatter around the essay is about how David was really writing about...

Carville: Dems Need to Exploit Trump&#39;s &#39;Economic Chaos&#39;
Carville:
Trump Gives
Democrats
an Opening
OPINION
Apr 14, 2025 3:28 PM CDT

Carville: Trump Gives Democrats an Opening

Political consultant says Trump is badly mishandling the economy

(Newser) - Calling President Trump's aggressive moves on tariffs "one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American history," James Carville writes at the New York Times that he doesn't think the commander in chief will be able to gloss it over. The Democratic political consultant...

Sarah Palin Begins Her Second Attempt to Prove Libel

Her new trial against the New York Times is getting underway

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is back in court Monday to once again make her case that the New York Times libeled her in 2017. As NPR notes, she lost her first attempt in a 2022 trial, but a "judge's misstep" has led to the second go-round that opens this...

Clinton Has a One-Word Take on Trump Administration

'Dumb,' former secretary of state says of Signal breach, many other moves Team Trump has made

(Newser) - "Dumb" is the operative word in Hillary Clinton's latest op-ed for the New York Times , in which she takes on former rival President Trump and his administration for "a string of self-inflicted wounds" since he took office, including the headline-making Signal breach that DOD chief Pete Hegseth,...

After Trump Blasts Reporters, Times Rips His 'Intimidation'

Journalists haven't always responded to president's attacks

(Newser) - The New York Times on Monday denounced "intimidation tactics" by President Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's reporting on Elon Musk and the Defense Department. The newspaper said in a post on X—the platform owned by Musk—that Trump's...

'Garbage Imperialism' of the '80s Never Really Went Away

New York Times columnist Alexander Clapp says the recycling story we've been told 'often isn't true'

(Newser) - In the '80s, hazardous waste from developed nations like the US began to get sent to undeveloped nations in bulk, with vows made to the recipients to pay them back with schools, hospitals, or cash for absorbing the rest of the world's trash. In 1992, the immorality of...

Kristof: What's Unfolding at USAID Is 'Sickening'

New York Times columnist says the world's richest are hurting the world's poorest

(Newser) - The headline of Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column on what's happening to USAID crystallizes the issue in his view: "The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children." Elon Musk has been gloating about gutting the US Agency for International Aid Development,...

The Pentagon Kicks Out NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico

The move is part of a plan to rotate access for media outlets each year

(Newser) - Four major news outlets will no longer have highly coveted office space at the Pentagon after the Defense Department released an internal memo announcing it's giving their space to other outlets. CNN's Haley Britzky posted the memo on X that said NBC News, the New York Times, NPR,...

Carville Doubles Down on His Famous Rule
Carville Doubles Down
on His Famous Rule
OPINION
Jan 2, 2025 8:52 AM CST

Carville Doubles Down on His Famous Rule

'It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid'

(Newser) - The James Carville of 2024 got it wrong in his election prediction of a Kamala Harris victory. Had he listened to the James Carville of 1992 , he might have gotten it right. "It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid," the political consultant writes...

Baldoni, Lively File Lawsuits
Baldoni Sues NYT for $250M
Jan 1, 2025 10:24 AM CST

Baldoni Sues NYT for $250M

Lawsuit claims Blake Lively story was 'rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and omissions'

(Newser) - Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday in the dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni—one from Lively, accusing Baldoni of harassment and a smear campaign, and one from Baldoni, accusing the New York Times of libel.
  • Baldoni's $250 million lawsuit alleges that a Dec. 21 Times story that sent
...

His Family Backs Deportations, and That May Include Him

NYT profiles Jaime Cachua, who came to US from Mexico as a baby

(Newser) - Jaime Cachua came to the US from Mexico as an infant when his mother found work, and as such is here illegally. With President-elect Trump pledging mass deportations, the 33-year-old longtime resident of Rome, Georgia, fears what's to come after Inauguration Day for himself, his wife Jennifer, and their...

Ex-Cigna Bigwig: I Left Insurer After &#39;Crisis of Conscience&#39;
Ex-Cigna Exec: What I Saw
'Shook Me to My Core'
OPINION
Dec 18, 2024 12:55 PM CST

Ex-Cigna Exec: What I Saw 'Shook Me to My Core'

In op-ed for NYT , Wendell Potter talks of time with health insurer, leaving due to 'crisis of conscience'

(Newser) - The gunning down of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has busted open an often-angry conversation about the state of health insurance in the United States, and now, an ex-exec with one of the country's biggest insurers is adding fuel to that fire. "What I saw made me quit,"...

Guys, Welcome to the &#39;Pink Collar&#39; Workforce
Guys, Welcome to the
'Pink Collar' Workforce
OPINION
Dec 12, 2024 9:45 AM CST

Guys, Welcome to the 'Pink Collar' Workforce

We should embrace men taking on caregiver jobs traditionally done by women, per NYT op-ed

(Newser) - When it comes to evolving over the past six decades or so, "Plastic Woman" ("American women who made miraculous social progress in the 20th century") outpaced "Cardboard Man" ("American men who stalled out"), according to two archetypes described by Jessica Grose in an op-ed...

Paul Krugman's Final Column: We're in a 'Grim Place'

Nobel-winning NYT economist laments losing optimism of the past, says to rebuff 'kakistocracy'

(Newser) - After nearly a quarter century, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has decided to wrap up his opinion column in the New York Times, with a final one dropping on Tuesday —and he's using it as "a good occasion to reflect on what has changed over these past...

A Millennial Admits: Sappy Christmas Films Aren't Terrible

NYT columnist Amanda Hess is surprised to find she's 'aged into the bad Christmas movie'

(Newser) - If you've ever scoffed at the treacly looking Christmas movies churned out annually by the likes of the Hallmark Channel and Netflix, refusing to become an old cat lady (or lad) sobbing over a rom-com, take comfort that "old" isn't the only demographic that these type of...

Paul Krugman to Retire as Times Columnist
Paul Krugman Plans
One Last Column
Dec 8, 2024 12:45 PM CST

Paul Krugman Plans One Last Column

Nobel Prize winner says he's looking for greater freedom in his writing

(Newser) - Paul Krugman—described by his editor as a sometimes "lonely voice arguing unfashionable positions" on the New York Times opinion pages—is retiring as a columnist. After 25 years in the role, Krugman posted online that he "decided to leave in search of more freedom in terms of...

He Picked Up a Gun at Age 11: 'Biggest Regret of My Life'

Writing for NYT , inmate Christopher Blackwell says that regret he's felt has helped move him forward

(Newser) - The New York Times' latest guest essayist isn't a high-powered politician or CEO—Christopher Blackwell is an inmate serving a 45-year sentence for robbery and murder, a consequence for a life of crime and violence that he now traces back to the first time he picked up a pistol...

See the New York Times' Best Books of the Year

Novels by Miranda July, Kaveh Akbar make the list

(Newser) - In the wake of the Washington Post's unveiling of its best books of the year , the New York Times is out with its own list of the 10 best books, split into fiction and nonfiction, just two of which appear on the aforementioned list. All "made lasting impressions,...

NYT Workers Behind 'Strikle' End Strike With No Deal

Tech workers union says the strike was a 'warning' to the newspaper

(Newser) - The New York Times Tech Guild ended its strike Monday, one week after most of the unit walked off the job. However, no contract deal has yet been reached; the union says the strike was a "warning" to the newspaper, the Washington Post reports. "We clearly demonstrated how...

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