It’s nice to see The Washington Times reduced to running headlines like “Rove: Bush hardly worst president.”
What’s that phrase again? The soft bigotry of expectations that you’re history’s greatest monster or something?
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It’s nice to see The Washington Times reduced to running headlines like “Rove: Bush hardly worst president.”
What’s that phrase again? The soft bigotry of expectations that you’re history’s greatest monster or something?
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