I love this. CJR Daily interviewed Tim Golden, who wrote the Afghanistan abuse stories (Part 1, Part 2) in the NYT last week. In the course of it, the interviewer asks about the timing of the articles so closely following the Newsweek kerfuffle: A few conservative bloggers and pundits have questioned the timing of the …

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This story has been floating around for a while, but it’s just now hit the NYT. A Republican fundraiser in Ohio somehow convinced the state’s Workers’ Compensation Fund to invest $50 million bucks in rare coins, and now some $13 million has gone missing. Putting aside the guy’s innocence or guilt for a moment, what …

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