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Feb. 25th, 2011
Krugman on Wisconsin II
Feb. 25th, 2011 04:58 amShock Doctrine, U.S.A.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 24, 2011
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 24, 2011
Here’s a thought: maybe Madison, Wis., isn’t Cairo after all. Maybe it’s Baghdad — specifically, Baghdad in 2003, when the Bush administration put Iraq under the rule of officials chosen for loyalty and political reliability rather than experience and competence. More
Of Gods and Men (2010) NYT Critics' Pick
Feb. 25th, 2011 05:27 am
Wild Bunch
OF GODS AND MEN Olivier Rabourdin as one of a group of Cistercian Trappist monks who are part of the life of a mountain village in Algeria in the 1990s.
Between Heaven and Earth
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 24, 2011
In the 1990s, Algeria was gripped by a gruesome, protracted civil war between the government — which declared martial law after annulling elections it appeared to have lost — and a ruthless Islamist insurgency. More
Heartbeats (2010)
Feb. 25th, 2011 05:34 am
Niels Schneider is the film’s obscure object of desire.
Three to a Bed, but No Funny Stuff
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: February 24, 2011
“Heartbeats,” a fluffy romantic soufflé, is introduced by an epigraph from the French poet Alfred de Musset: “The only truth is love beyond reason.” Well, I suppose if you’re as young and as besotted with cinematic dreams as Xavier Dolan, the 21-year-old Québécois who wrote, directed and edited this film, and also served as its art director and costume designer, that slogan makes a crazy kind of sense. More
A Good Man (2009) NYT Critics' Pick
Feb. 25th, 2011 05:39 am
Chris Rohrlach and his wife, Rachel, in a scene from the documentary “A Good Man.”
‘A Good Man’: A Sideline in the Sex Industry
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: February 24, 2011
There’s nothing fancy about “A Good Man,” Safina Uberoi’s rough-hewn profile of Chris Rohrlach, an Australian farmer with a sideline in the sex industry. But Ms. Uberoi’s straight-shooting style is a perfect match for her salt-of-the-earth subject, a hard-working husband and father with more on his plate than most. More
Everything Strange and New (2009)
Feb. 25th, 2011 05:43 am
Jerry McDaniel stars in “Everything Strange and New.”
Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: February 24, 2011
Frazer Bradshaw’s eerie, melancholy film “Everything Strange and New” captures a sensation that can suddenly overtake you: that everyday life is as weird as any piece of science fiction. If there are no aliens or spaceships to be seen, the strangeness consists of jolts of information and confusion that seem to arrive from out of the blue. More
News Break: Sun Rises in East
Feb. 25th, 2011 06:00 amFox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee to Lie, Records Show
By RUSS BUETTNER
Published: February 24, 2011
By RUSS BUETTNER
Published: February 24, 2011
It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary. More
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: February 24, 2011
Published: February 24, 2011
Even the most informed awards prognosticators differ on whether “The King’s Speech” or “The Social Network” will win the ultimate prize on Sunday. There’s uncertainty, too, in the best actress enclave. Could Annette Bening, thrice cold-shouldered by the Academy, prevail over Natalie Portman, whose monthslong publicity blitz rivals the veritable Oscar panhandling that cinched Sandra Bullock’s victory last year? More
Shocked! Shocked I tell you...
Feb. 25th, 2011 06:23 amGay Marriage Seems to Wane as Conservative Issue
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: February 24, 2011
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: February 24, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s decision to abandon his legal support for the Defense of Marriage Act has generated only mild rebukes from the Republicans hoping to succeed him in 2012, evidence of a shifting political climate in which social issues are being crowded out by economic concerns. More
Shocked! Just Shocked!
Feb. 25th, 2011 06:24 amScientists Are Cleared of Misuse of Data
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: February 24, 2011
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: February 24, 2011
An inquiry by a federal watchdog agency found no evidence that scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data to buttress the evidence in support of global warming, officials said on Thursday. More
Washington's deficit-hawk pretenders
Feb. 25th, 2011 07:10 amThe Obama proposal looks to reduce debt 10 years from now, by $400 million. This theoretical House Republican proposal looks to increase the debt 10 years from now, by $150 billion.
And over the past 30 years, Democratic budget proposals have by and large delivered what they promised. Republican proposals, by contrast, have all turned out to produce much bigger deficits than were pledged at the start. More
I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still the other day. The new Keanu Reeves version. It sucked, not that I had great expectations. The writing sucked in new and unusual ways that, to me, indicated a true dunderhead had written it, or it got rewrote so bad in committee, that all sense left. I was so glad I missed it in the theaters. Nanobot insects? I'm guessing somebody thought they had to fly and swarm. And that makes the glowing sphere one heck of a bug zapper.
The War on Women
Feb. 25th, 2011 11:39 pmPublished: February 25, 2011
Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer screenings and cut nutritional support for millions of newborn babies in struggling families. And this is just the beginning. More