MichaelBarbaro
2/1/2012 1:24 PM ET
The Times sees in Romney "a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign....Mr. Romney has never been especially squeamish about negative campaigning. As jarring ...
12/28/2011 4:50 PM ET
"When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly." More of Romney as robot: The Times feels the need to spell out ...
6/27/2011 1:43 PM ET
Former White House correspondent turned columnist Frank Bruni: "Same-sex marriage? I don't recall our talking - or dreaming - much about that. We considered ourselves realists. Sometimes ...
2/1/2011 4:26 PM ET
Reporter Michael Barbaro gets awfully worked up about one of Bush's daughter's making a video in support of gay marriage in New York State: "The Bush dynasty is no stranger to generational ...
1/3/2011 5:09 PM ET
Defeated Democratic and "virtual-bomb-tosser" Alan Grayson gets a a rather fond send off in the Times and certainly doesn't get the Newt Gingrich treatment (the Times omits the "virtual" when ...
11/24/2010 1:52 PM ET
The governor-elect is promoted for the idea that (liberal) public service is "sexy." But Cuomo also thinks it could be his natural good looks - what he calls his "genetic sculpting."
9/29/2010 10:46 AM ET
Michael Barbaro on the "tainted past" of Carl Paladino's Tea Party staffers: "And the issue highlights a growing problem across the country for the Tea Party, which has backed Mr. Paladino: the ...
9/20/2010 3:29 PM ET
The Times leads Sunday with the soothing "moderation" of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg against harmful Tea Party anger: "In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the ...
9/15/2010 3:53 PM ET
A Tea Party candidate wins in New York State, and reporters David Halbfinger and Michael Barbaro shudder. "The result was a potentially destabilizing blow for New York Republicans. It put at the ...
9/7/2010 6:37 PM ET
After spending a month assuring readers that most sophisticated New Yorkers are just fine with building a mosque near Ground Zero, the New York Times conducts its own poll and finds New Yorkers ...