Politics
March 12, 2015
Opinion
Readers side with the ex-editor of the New York Times’ opinion section who resigned after Tom Cotton’s op-ed article was published.
June 11, 2020
Republican Tom Cotton, a conservative tea party congressman, Army veteran and Harvard Law School graduate, ousted two-term Sen.
Nov. 4, 2014
To the editor: I’ve been a student of politics since my days as a congressional staff assistant in 1972.
March 16, 2015
Company Town
New York Times’ Opinion Editor James Bennet resigned, days after acknowledging that he hadn’t read Sen. Tom Cotton’s inflammatory op-ed.
June 7, 2020
Sen. Tom Cotton used his New York Times op-ed to call for using the Insurrection Act to “send in the troops” against nationwide civil unrest, prompting backlash from across the newsroom.
June 3, 2020
On Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland, Iranian negotiators demanded that their American counterparts explain to them the meaning of the open letter sent to Iranian leaders by 47 Republican U.S. senators.
March 17, 2015
Gone apparently are the days when newly elected senators followed the tried-and-true tradition of being seen, not heard, as they deferred to more-seasoned colleagues and learned the ropes.
World & Nation
The New York Times’ editorial page editor has resigned amid outrage over an op-ed by a Republican senator who advocated using federal troops to quell protests — outrage that only grew when it was revealed the editor had not read the piece before publication.
It has been an Iranian tradition since 1979 to end Friday prayers with chants of “Death to America!”