what kind of "absurd agenda" do you think this article is "pushing"?
It's definitely an agenda, definitely pushed, and fairly absurd.
Here’s also a story, just three weeks old, that paints manufacturing in the US in a positive light: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/nyregion/the-brooklyn-arm...
The NYT seems to (also) suck at coordinating their “agenda pushing”. It’s almost as if it’s a newspaper publishing ideas that don’t always neatly align to ideology.