I think the New York Times has basically just missed the fact that the world isn't what it used to be. Maybe they should ask Thomas Friedman about how we're all hyperconnected! . . . but I doubt it would do any good. The Times does what it does, which is to write Democratic Party propaganda dressed up as news reporting, and simply count on the rest of the world to buy the disguise. For decades it got away with this because there was no such thing as alternative media to expose its nonsense.