How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at The New York Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. The paper's obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, but as Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.
The most recent - and perhaps most egregious - way this has surfaced is a story about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's application to Columbia University in 2009, when he was a high school senior. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and is of South Asian descent, identified himself as "Asian" and "Black or Africa …
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