Ezra Klein

If you were designing a system to pick a Democratic presidential nominee, it probably wouldn’t look much like the current primary system. The Iowa / New Hampshire sequence helps candidates who’ve done favors for local politicians and who are willing to perform obscene acts of submission to Big Corn. No offense meant to Jeanne Shaheen […]

I thought I might chase The Ethical Werewolf’s notes on The People’s Money with a snapshot of The People’s Debt. I’ve been following this story for several months, and I’ve noticed that it doesn’t get much air time. The essence is simple. Assume the Republican Party makes all of its recent regressive tax changes permanent […]

The centrist Democratic group Third Way has released an analysis of the 2004 exit polls showing, quite starkly, that Democrats lost the middle class. The tipping point for white voters, the spot where they began voting for Republicans rather than Democrats, was $23,700, not that far above party level. More damaging, the same dynamic was […]

This weekend, Neil Sinhababu from Ethical Werewolf and Paperwight from Papewright’s Fairshot will be helping me out. Indeed they, and maybe a few others, will be on the site until Thursday, as I’m going to DC for the first few days of next week. I’ll still be posting, just not with my usual frequency, so […]

Kate catches doctors surrendering to their inner capitalist and accepting the practice of giving project funders — often pharmaceutical companies — full control over their research projects. That means control over design, what’s studied, how the material is presented…the whole deal. Why is this so attractive in such a service-oriented profession? She explains: researchers at […]

Via Steve Soto, here’s some interesting poll data: While American voters have mixed opinions about abortion, they support the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision 63 – 33 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Men support it 68 – 28 percent, while women support it 58 – 37 percent. This is […]

Tim* has an interesting response to my health care post below. What he puts out is something of a extended meditation on the nature of health insurance, and how it differs from other forms of insurance. Oddly enough, his post, to me, seemed like an excellent argument for nationalizing health insurance in the country, but […]

The nation’s big journalism schools are pooling resources to create new investigative journalism structures that they can aspire to send their students to. Why? Because the current lights of reporting are being tarnished and dimmed daily, and as a result, there’s less and less for wannabe reporters to shoot for. The article’s a little unclear […]

A majority of Americans now say they’re likely to vote for Hillary. In the last year, her strong support has jumped by 8% and strong opposition has dropped by 5%. This doesn’t mean you should vote for her, but the whispers of giant anti-Hillary armies populating the heartland and preparing to take over the country […]

CATO’s Tim Lee has been running a very good blog named Binary Bits which seems, in large part, dedicated to correcting Matt, myself, and a few others on our health care posts. Oftentimes, Tim is right and I am wrong. But today he wrote a long post, in response to me, which lets me be […]