Ezra Klein

The WTO. I want to learn about it. Yes, boring, I know. But anything that half my lefty activist friends think is a tool of American interests to dominate Nicaragua and the other half think is an unjust institution yoking the American worker has to be fairly interesting. So if anyone’s got suggestions of books […]

Tim Lee wonders why I’ve been silent on the Raich decision. The answer, unfortunately, is less malicious than it is mundane: I’ve nothing to say. I think marijuana should be decriminalized but California clearly can’t contravene federal law. Insofar as the decision rests on the principle of federalism, I agree with it. Insofar as we’re […]

Speaking of the administration’s total duplicity surrounding CAFTA, here’s President Bush lying through his teeth during a speech to Organization of American States: For the young democracies of Central America, CAFTA would bring new investment, and that means good jobs and higher labor standards for their workers. Yes, that’s what CAFTA’s about, guaranteeing higher labor […]

In response to a question asking if the president would condemn Hugo Chavez by name, Scott said: I think the focus of his remarks will be on democracy in our hemisphere, and strengthening democracy in our hemisphere. … And one way that we can help support younger democracies in our own hemisphere is to continue […]

This is one of the worst stories I’ve ever heard. Texas should be fully, wholly, totally, ashamed.

Looking over excerpts from some new Hillary-bashing book, Matt posts up a purported conversation between Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Moynihan where Hillary forgets to credit Moynihan on a bill and so the aged senator, acting like the dignified legislative leader he was, bowed out of the meeting under false pretenses and hid in an adjoining […]

The Washington Post has a profoundly wrongheaded op-ed on CAFTA today. It’s written by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Paul L.E. Grieco and attempts to argue that we should support the agreement because free trade, over the last century or so, has been hugely good for America. Sigh. Folks aren’t opposing CAFTA because they question the […]

The new Washington Post poll bears so much bad news for Bush that you’d think he was the Republican Congress (thanks folks, I’ll be here all week). 58% of those interviewed said Bush was focusing on partisan squabbles and issues that weren’t important to them. Much of that comes from Bush’s obsessive focus on radical […]

Oh happy day, particularly if you’re one of the many right wingers who’ve spent the last few months screeching for Kerry to release his full Navy records. Finally, on this glorious Tuesday morning, they arrived. And just as you suspected, the forms are packed with dirt. They offer definitive, final proof that the SwiftVets were […]

Speaking of take-no-prisoner addresses, Pope Nosferatu Benedict spent the morning offering one of his own: Pope Benedict, in his first clear pronouncement on gay marriages since his election, on Monday condemned same-sex unions as fake and expressions of “anarchic freedom” that threatened the future of the family. The Pope, who was elected in April, also […]