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Ezra Klein
Do I really need to do a post noting that Time Magazine picked Obama as their Person of the Year? Probably not. But they do have a good interview with him. And these pictures a photographer took of him when he was in his 20s. Rick Stengel, editor of Time, says “we thought about possibly giving it to the American voter for electing Barack Obama,” but I’m glad he beat back that impulse. I got the award in 2006. Let someone else have a chance.
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. More by Ezra Klein
