While Dubya defends the NSA domestic spying program, a senior U.S. Justice Dept. official had some severe problems with it, the NYT reported in a Jan. 1 article.

If you can't earn goodwill, I say buy it! :)

This NYT Magazine piece profiles Yulia Tymoshenko, once the Queen of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, now a bitter enemy of President Viktor Yushchenko.

A former host for REN-TV in Russia, the country's last independent network, has accused it of censoring stories that conflict with the worldview of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This NYT story looks at tactics interview subjects are using to take the final word away from the news media.

A Wonderful Country is portrayed as a take-no-prisoners effort in televised satire -- one that captures 60 per cent of Israel's television-viewing audience on Friday nights.

NYT public editor Byron Calame says he is experiencing "unusual difficulty" in getting the paper's top editors to explain why they sat on the NSA domestic spying story for more than a year.