Jill Filipovic

None of this is to say that the New York Times doesn’t have a general perspective. But I’m fairly confident that if you did a survey of the political leanings of every opinion piece published over the last decade, you’d see that perspective is very much on the liberal side of things.

This is not actually how it works. Op/ed editors at the Times and other publications publish all sorts of opinions they don't agree with. The idea that they only pick pieces because they support the opinion is... stunningly ignorant.

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That is... just demonstrably false.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...

www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/o...

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What has the New York Times published knowing it was false? They don't always get the story right, and they issue corrections when they're wrong, but that's a pretty weighty claim to make.

They have two conservative columnists on staff, and many more liberal ones. I disagree with Douthat and Stephens, but I also honestly don't see the problem with a national newspaper including what are honestly fairly mainstream conservative voices. The "intent" is to rep a variety of views.

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

I mean, yes, that is the job of a newspaper op/ed page.

The last time I worked as an editor on a newspaper opinion desk was in college but yeah I published all kinds of opinions I didn't agree with! That's the job. Again, if you don't comprehend that, that's a media literacy problem on your part, and it might help to learn about how newspapers work.

Criticize the opinions! That's fair game. But suggesting that "The New York Times" as an entity agrees with the opinion of every op/ed they publish is deranged and in fact makes no sense if you think about it for more than two seconds.

I think "The NYT" is a huge organization with thousands of employees and dozens of op/ed staffers with many different opinions. And yes I think they very often publish opinions that many -- even most -- of their staffers disagree with. That is the job of an op/ed desk.

Yes, there are guardrails. And positions held by people at the highest levels of government are fair game for a newspaper's op/ed pages. Things like "we should bomb Iran" are, clearly, positions held by people at the highest levels of government.

This idea that the NYT is some sort of right-wing rag because they sometimes publish conservatives and do reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want is just one of the most demented and reality-eschewing theories to take hold on the left. Truly bizarre and sad to see.

I mean... the NYT columnist staff leans strongly to the left. As do their contributors. I would bet if you added up all of the pieces that were left-leaning versus right-leaning, you'd see a lot more on the left column.

The job of an op/ed page is not to only publish the "right" opinions. If a topic, policy, or decision is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op/ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for that policy or decision. Even if the policy is bad!

Not including this person's handle because I don't want to start a big pile-on but there is such a deep media literacy problem on the left. "The New York Times" is not "supporting" any of the things linked; individual writers on their *opinion* pages are making the case for these positions.

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

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The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

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“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Israel is doing great evil“ is not antisemitic. “Israel is pulling the levers on all the world’s evil” is both antisemitic and also passing the buck on how bad the US is, and our role now and historically.

I have to say, I don’t love that a former editor for the “New Yorker” is using this horrible war as an excuse to spread antisemitic conspiracies that New York Jews are all Israeli sleeper agents - especially when the state of Israel has made it clear it doesn’t care about us at all.

“It’s not just a disastrous war of choice waged by an unhinged lunatic who has surrounded himself with sycophantic imbeciles; it’s a cataclysmic conflict of epic fury”

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

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Excuse me, Donald Trump LIED about something? DONALD TRUMP? My god if only there had been a sign.

It is possible to believe two things at once: That the long-suffering people of Iran deserve freedom from their despotic leaders, and that a bombing campaign by the current highly corrupt authoritarian government of America is unlikely to bring it.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

It is both outrageous and very representative of this administration and the entire conservative movement that women are responsible for men’s crimes, and that women who challenge men must be made to suffer in perpetuity.