Progressive Columnists

New York Times: Shifting Stands: Is That Real Change? 2008-07-03

Rosario Rivera Paul Krugman says that whether the Democrats can take advantage of this moment to change the country"s direction is up to Senator Barack ...

TheStranger.com: Barack Obama Moves to the Center 2008-07-03

Paul Krugman , writing in the New York Times about these and other disappointments, wondered if Obama would end up letting down the ideological left in ...

Huffington Post: Turning Obama Into A Punchline: How Democrats Can Lose 2008-07-02

In 2000 the press likewise repeatedly failed to call Bush out on his many lies, indeed Paul Krugman , who tried, was expressly forbidden to use the word ...

Huffington Post: Eight Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It 2008-07-02

8) Heed the old Texas advice of Dandy Don Meredith and Molly Ivins : "You got to dance with them what brung you." Voters longing for hope, inspirati ...

guardian.co.uk: Destroying Hillary Clinton 2008-07-02

Billary was back in vogue, and infamous Clinton-haters in the media like Maureen Dowd or Chris Matthews (who remains as fixated on Clinton scandal ...

OpEdNews: America Back on Track... for Tuesday, July 1st 2008-07-02

Maureen Dowd commented on the post-primary unification, and she has little good to say about Bill Clinton, "who is in a self-pitying meltdown about ...

OpEdNews: Rob Kall Radio Show: John Dean, Paul Craig Roberts, with Ray ... 2008-07-02

My co-host for the show will be Ray McGovern , During his 27-years as a CIA analyst, he chaired NIEs: he is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence ...

MSNBC: Military sees presidential race through own lens 2008-07-02

July 1: NBC's Andrea Mitchell talks with The New York Times columnist Bob Herbert about Barack Obama and John McCain's positions on the war in Iraq.

The People's Voice: George Bush is NO Thomas Jefferson 2008-07-02

The following words of Ray McGovern are those of a TRUE patriot. It was David Hume (I believe) who spoke of the moral responsibility to be intelligent ...

New York Times Blogs: Name Required E-mail Required (will not be published) Comment 2008-07-02

Paul Krugman is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. OK, not quite: close today still above 11000. But we"re getting within striking distance.

mediabistro.com: Receive mediabistro.com's Daily FishbowlDC Feed via email 2008-07-02

Meanwhile, Romenesko has this from John Maggs: "The only interesting thing about Clark Hoyt and Gail Collins scrapping on Maureen Dowd seems to be ...

Post-Bulletin: Bill Boyne: The war in Iraq must be ended 2008-07-02

Bob Herbert , a New York Times columnist, wrote recently that many thousands of US troops "are returning with brain damage and psychological wounds th ...

RGE Monitor: Kling's question on oil speculation 2008-07-02

Which of the following does Paul Krugman believe: (b) market fundamentals justified a much higher price in 2007?We know that Krugman does not believe ...

U.S. News & World Report: Obama Touts Faith-Based Initiative Plans 2008-07-02

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd writes that Clark "joined the growing ranks of troublesome Obama associates." McClatchy reports that "notably ...

MLive.com: Let Maureen Dowd be Maureen Dowd 2008-07-02

That was never meant as a compliment ("We don't need a Maureen Dowd of the Midwest"); it was always in the context of getting me to "tone it down.

Dallas Morning News: Letters for Wednesday 2008-07-02

US policy is stacked against renters, and that's too bad, says Paul Krugman ," Saturday Viewpoints. I appreciate Mr. Krugman's concern about renters ...

JCK India: Gold jewelry in 24 karat 2008-07-02

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for," American columnist Maureen Dowd said.

New York Times: The Wrong Stuff 2008-07-02

By MAUREEN DOWD On the way back from Unity, NH, Friday evening, Barack Obama"s plane got diverted by bad weather. Instead of landing at Reagan airport ...

New York Times: That"s Progress? 2008-07-02

Maureen Dowd quotes Barack Obama as claiming that because of Hillary Rodham Clinton, his daughters ícan take for granted that women can do anything that ...

Yahoo! News: What If Obama Never Left the Center? 2008-07-02

Paul Krugman has been writing about this for months but you Obama fans to the left of him just didn't want to listen. The same thing happened with Howard ...

MLive.com: • Presidential campaign trickles down to children's books - Kalamazoo Gazette 2008-07-02

Helen Thomas , dean of the White House press corps, has teamed up with award-winning editorial cartoonist Chip Bok on ``The Great White House Breakout,'' ...

Dissident Voice: Barack Zelig 2008-06-30

Many radical Black commentators expressed disgust with Obama, but Maureen Dowd , Tom Friedman and Bob Herbert quickly denounced them as íself-loathing Black ...

Huffington Post: Clinton and Obama: Love Will Keep Us Together 2008-06-30

I just want to tell you, Michelle Bernard, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Tucker Carlson, Wolf Blitzer, George Will, Maureen Dowd , et al -- I'm taking ...

Media Channel: Where"s The Outrage? 2008-06-30

íLousy, reprehensible,ì said Bob Herbert . There"s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate.

AlterNet: From the Wire 2008-06-30

But I feel compelled to respond to your assault on Maureen Dowd . Your complaint about Maureen seems to be that many supporters of Hillary Clinton found her ...

Raw Story: Pundits ask, Will Obama's 'change' look more like Reagan or Clinton? 2008-06-30

New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman on Monday considered which "change" candidate presumptive Democratic nominee more closely resembled, Bill Clinton ...

Feministe: I"m so utterly shocked 2008-06-30

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is a woman, and her ramblings seem to alternately expound on how ridiculous she thinks other women are and questioning ...

New York Magazine: Obama"s Shift to the Center: Risky! 2008-06-30

Paul Krugman thinks that Obama resembles Bill Clinton. He could "do a lot worse than a rerun of the Clinton years," but "Mr. Obama"s most fervent supporter ...

Seeking Alpha: The Cognitive Dissonance Between Economists and the Public 2008-06-30

I have been surprised by how many reality-based economists -- including those on the left like Professor Brad DeLong and NYT columnist Paul Krugman -- ...

Radar Online: Winehouse's Fists of Fury 2008-06-30

Mo problems: New York Times columnist Gail Collins defends fellow columnist Maureen Dowd and her coverage of Hillary Clinton, writing, "When the public ...

PoliGazette: Obama, Centrist or Liberal? 2008-06-30

As Paul Krugman points out, Obama"s rhetoric sounds a whole lot like Clinton"s back in 1992. He"s almost the same kind of candidate.

Seeking Alpha: Responsible Regulation of the Housing Market? 2008-06-30

(See Paul Krugman's article in the June 27 New York Times, íFuels on the Hill.") The ultimate problem that results from a situation like this is that policy ...

Center for Research on Globalization: Independent Media Coverage of Middle East War: From BAFTA to ... 2008-06-29

The two joined Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Chris McGreal and Ghaith Abdul Ahad of the Guardian, The Sunday Times' Hala Jaber ...

News Shopper: Pair rescued from flat fire 2008-06-29

By Robert Fisk FIREFIGHTERS had to rescue a woman and a child who were trapped because of a blaze in their building. The fire damaged about half of ...

Los Angeles Times: Cannibal liberals 2008-06-29

Indeed, the worst offender by far, the "Ingrid Bergman" in the example above, has been the New York Times' liberal columnist Maureen Dowd , who has never met ...

Dallas Morning News: Letters for Sunday 2008-06-29

Re: "If we want better fathers, we should start with better jobs, says Bob Herbert ," Tuesday Viewpoints. A responsible man will do the best with whatever he ...

Los Angeles Daily News: Something new 2008-06-29

Doug McIntyre's column has moved to Wednesdays, and Bill O'Reilly's now appears on Fridays alongside Maureen Dowd . Opinionated will vary greatly from week ...

The Nation Newspaper: THE RACE TO THE WHITEHOUSE: Michelle: first among Firsts? 2008-06-29

As NYT columnist Maureen Dowd observed (June 11): "Mrs Obama is the new, unwilling contestant in Round Two of the sulfurous national game of 'Kill ...

Pasadena Star-News: Maureen Dowd: More phony myths by Republican leaders 2008-06-29

KARL Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him. But now he sees him as a "coolly arrogant" elitist. "Even if you never met him ...

New York Times: Other Voices: Edgy Opinion, or Over the Edge? 2008-06-29

But I feel compelled to respond to your assault on Maureen Dowd . Your complaint about Maureen seems to be that many supporters of Hillary Clinton found her ...

Tehran Times: Snapshots of life in Baghdad @H= By Robert Fisk 2008-06-29

Robert Fisk reports Three bodies lie beside a Baghdad street on a blindingly hot day. The one on the right is dressed in a white shirt and bright green ...

Huffington Post: White House Bounces EPA Reality Check 2008-06-28

The price of oil may rise and fall, but the era of cheap oil is GONE FOREVER, as Paul Krugman points out in his Friday column, and nothing's gonna bring ...

New York Times: More Phony Myths 2008-06-25

By MAUREEN DOWD Karl Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him. But now he sees him as a ícoolly arrogantì elitist.

FOXBusiness: Fiorina vs. the Facts 2008-06-23

[ Paul Krugman column, New York Times, 6/20/08] BUSH AND MCCAIN IN LOCKSTEP. "Republican John McCain is trying to appeal to independent voters by saying he' ...