The New York Times reports: 

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by a homegrown extremist who may have slipped past law enforcement and military [...]

The New York Times reports:  

Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa.
Those cases, the broadest use to date [...]

"Was Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan a terrorist…?" The New York Times courageously asked yesterday.  Duuuhhhhh.

David Brooks writes in The New York Times:  

The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality. 
Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation and goodness. But over the past few decades a malevolent narrative has emerged.
That narrative has emerged on the fringes of [...]

The New York Times reports: 

On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in addressing issues at the heart [...]

This CNN video reportedly shows Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan wearing "traditional garb" while shopping in a convenience store early yesterday morning about seven hours before the shooting.
A CNN producer’s narrative from 2:25 to 3:25 in the video describes concerns Hasan reportedly expressed to the store owner about a week ago about [...]

I think that’s a fair question in light of yesterday’s murderous shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, which authorities have attributed to Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who reportedly was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
According to The New York Times, Hasan was "born and reared in Virginia, the son [...]

The New York Times is currently running this headline on its home page:  "Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Ethics Flag".  The sentence on the home page under that headline says, "Experts say Senator John Ensign may have violated ethics laws by helping an aide get work after having an affair with his wife."
After [...]

"It was 4 a.m. in mid-November, and I was stretching in a lodge in Thorong Phedi, Nepal, at 14,500 feet, trying to pump warmth back into my body and get rid of a throbbing headache brought on by dehydration and altitude sickness. Wolfing down chapati bread with jam and a fried [...]

In a long piece in The New York Times Magazine called "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?", Nobel Prize-winning economist and Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman tries to "explain" the current crash without analyzing the macroeconomic impact of land speculation and land monopoly or mentioning "Progress and Poverty — An Inquiry into the Cause [...]