The author of the article, Lawrence Summers, is a professor at Harvard Univ. and the managing director of D.E. Shaw & Co., a gigantic Wall Street Hedge Fund enterprise, currently developing the world's first "mega computer", to simulate and study protein folding. (How many students do you guess Mr. Summers fits into his schedule?) Connect the dots: Harvard ... Hedge Fund ... Moving to biotech ... "Engage with a wider range of global economic stakeholders". This is sales-and-marketing ... More »

Author says McCain "has made a long series of substantial factual errors", without enumerating. Article is very short on facts generally -- not a good tactic for a story about "facts."

Very thorough. Gives sense of the many complex factors affecting the health of coastal waters.

Lakoff illustrates "framing" with this article. Obama = Values. Clinton = Triangulation. The article illustrates his position and his ideas very well. The real story is in the comments under the article. "Framing" may be important in this election, but so is "anger."

In Venezuela this story is about relaxing price controls to encourage milk production. The big, new processing plant in Machiques provides vastly increase capacity for pasturizing and bottling milk from dairy farmers, making it easier for dairy farmers to get the milk to market. The "expropriation" theat is against dairies that smuggle the milk to Columbia. CNN's reporting is the most venal sort of propaganda. You heard it here first: The minute we're out of Iraq, we'll "catapult" ... More »

This article provides a coherent story putting together a lot of information that we already know. And the story makes terrific "common sense." We could be investing in our infrastructure -- renewable energy, training, health care -- to provide an invisible subsidy for all businesses. Everyone would win. Imagine.

A very important story. The article is a bit light on siting its sources. Furthermore, a few hard statistics relating the increase in palm oil cost to the average 3rd world consumer's budget would give us a clearer picture of the demand-side problem. And how much of the rain forest is being sacrificed for palm trees? I thought the Amazon was mainly losing out to pasture.

A little short on focus, alas. If "Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," Mr. McGovern should give us a clearly articulated list. Please!

Ample quotations both from the California and from the EPA side. A good example of how to present two points of view without pretending the nonsensical one has equal weight.

Plenty of quotations, but, apart from McCain and Romney, only one attribution (Mark Salter, McCain aide). This article gives a good sense of the Republican debate -- can't blame the journalist if that debate seems a bit "vapid."

Very good list of issues. Refers to specific votes in Congress by Clinton. (Neglects to refer to specific votes by Obama.) Helen Thomas deserves her status as "model journalist."

Good article about who is working on impeachment. Well sourced. Even quotes the White House response.

Good reporting about the book written by a Republican Dirty Tricks operative. Everyone should be aware of these tactics, since the practice appears to be trending upward.

Really interesting "analysis/thesis" of how different Republican candidates reflect different Republican constituencies. I wouldn't put it in the "good journalism" category, but it would make a great research topic.

Very good account of this campaign incident: the act, its causes and effects, the stakes. Voters will get a lot of information from this article.

The writing style is a bit unorthodox, but the story is dead on track. The day of the Annapolis "Peace" conference, the Israelis announced a new settlement in occupied territory. Everyone needs to give up their delusions and look honestly at the wall.

The reporters provide no relevant background for this story, and they don't ask any questions. Why has Arlen Specter (Senate Judiciary) been to Syria 16 times in 20 years? Is it a peace initiative or an arms deal?

Very thorough reportage. One wonders how much our own peace and security is damaged by allowing mercenaries to act completely outside of any law. I guess we're going to find out.

Well-researched description of our permanent military bases in Iraq. Very thorough yet highly readable.

Very interesting and eyebrow raising. Kansas!!?? But article focuses exclusively on the attack by industry against the anti-coal-plant decision. Is there a counter-attack? What is public sentiment? Need more info.

A fair report of the referendum, the goals of Chavez, and the quality of the opposition. The results of the voting are very nearly 50-50; this article manages to view both sides and avoid polemic.

Very thorough and fair: the election results, the opposition response. All points of view enumerated. Check this out for chutzpah: "The United States called on authorities to investigate claims of vote-rigging." ... Yeah. In Florida.

I experienced the decimation of the Bay Area's ISP's firsthand, so I know the article's information is correct. It's absolutely true that SBC (and PacBell before) would fail to support DSL service that was purchased through a sub-licensee, like Covad. I'm sad that this article does not really present a very well-written description of how Internet transport has been completely monopolized over the past 10 years.

Succint. Good ideas you don't have to read with nodoz. Really stimulates thought. Nice graphics.

Very interesting. List of questions at bottom provide a counterbalance to the main thesis that the debates neglect the important topics of the day. I wish the author had gone the extra step of discussing the reasons why network TV eviscerates debate.

Funny but really disappointing. There's probably some reasonable criticism of Hillary Clinton here, but the author never tells us which specific Clinton proposal he's objecting to. How can we judge the truth or falsity of either Hillary or the author with nothing concrete to consider? (I sweep the floors at my business, too. So?)

A very good blog post. Author tries to see the return of Ter Petrosian from opposing points of view. Very broad minded for this kind of posting.

An excellent demonstration of the logical fallacy, "Biased Sample". Dershowitz claims his position on torture is not unreasonable, because his critic used the word "monster". Did she say Dershowitz was a monster? Poor Alan. All that inflated bluster exposed as pointless posturing. Sad.

Very complete and thoughtful discussion of regulatory problems for this new technology.

David Sirota is the best. He analyzes both the statements and the behavior of these candidates and gives a sense of what is at stake, both for the trade deals and for the election. Will we have to vote for one of these monsters?

Great web site. Very good man (Brewer). Critical topic (global warming). Poor essay: very unfocussed and ultimately unconvincing. If you didn't already know Andrew Revkin was a neocon propagandist, you wouldn't get it from reading this article.

Entertainingly written; introduces a lot of statistics without inducing narcolepsy.

This piece is a pearl. Very succinct. No editorializing.

Droll. Purely editorial.

The blogs at the bottom of the article completely demolish the author's "statistics." The following is illogical: "... the central bank ... has inflation under control, so even if it does loosen up the money supply ... doing so doesn't begin an upward spiral of inflation...". Inflating the money supply = inflation.