The New York Times Knows Nobody Believes It about Biden, Kavanaugh, and Sexual Assault

An editor tries to explain away the newspaper’s grossly unequal coverage of sexual-assault allegations.

Aremarkable thing happened Monday: The New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, actually had to answer questions about his paper’s very different coverage of sexual-assault allegations against Joe Biden and Brett Kavanaugh. It did not go well. It is simply impossible to read the interview and the Times coverage of the two cases and come away believing that the Times acted in good faith or, frankly, that it even expects anyone to believe its explanations. The...