In every single case, the person who was designated as the journalist, and the person who was there to represent America's political class, thought and argued identically. They were completely indistinguishable in terms of how they thought about Wikileaks. They were all in agreement that what Wikileaks was doing was awful; that our government had to put a stop to it. You had people who were claiming to be journalists who were on television outraged that they were learning what the government was doing and furious at the government for not taking better steps to hide those things from them.

All around the country, right-wing legislators are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, provoking a huge Main Street Movement to fight back. But now a group of House Republicans has launched a new stealth attack against union workers: a bill that among other provisions would cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult is on strike.

Times management negotiators yesterday made absolutely no changes to their 54 pages of requested givebacks from Guild members as they met with the Guild in the third across-the-table meeting since contract talks began on Feb. 10. While Guild negotiators continued to fire off questions and information requests regarding the proposed givebacks, management negotiators’ made it clear by their responses that they simply didn’t want to be “restricted” by any contractual commitments.