I have approximately a million e-mails sitting in my inbox, so to all of you who sent me something and haven’t gotten a reply, rest assured I’m trudging through the backlog. Finals/moving/life had the impudence to intrude till now.

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.