Ezra Klein

David Sirota gets a bit overheated in interpreting it, but this photo of Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich celebrating pro-Wal-Mart legislation while shadowed by the company’s CEO is pretty creepy.

Matt’s a little surprised that the right has given so little thought to the long-term consequences of the filibuster fight, namely, the destabilization of the filibuster and the massive expansions of government that its elimination will eventually engender. He points to David Boaz, who is taking the long-view (and is, by the way, a markedly […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, your United States of America: Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him. The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions […]

In something of an odd move, NARAL has given Lincoln Chafee their early endorsement, and their first of the 2006 campaign. Stupid stupid stupid. They’ve been missing the forest throughout the race, driving Langevin, who could’ve unseated Chafee (and was stomping him in the polls), out of the running, and now offering Lincoln their preemptive […]

Netflix picked up its first scalp today, driving Wal-Mart from the movie rental business and absorbing all their customers. Long-time readers will know my feeling on Wal-Mart, and thus can imagine the many tears I shed for them on this hardest of all days.

Yes Barbara, that was a blatant, self-serving publicity attempt. But then, when in Huffpost Rome…

When you run a google search for something and you’re the sixth result. Who knew I was such an authority on Health Savings Accounts?

Yes yes, by now, you all know that Rick Santorum sauntered down to the Senate floor and said: “Some are suggesting we’re trying to change the law, we’re trying to break the rules. Remarkable. Remarkable hubris. “I mean, imagine. The rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm […]

Heather Boushey of the CEPR has written a stunning report on America’s minimum wage. Required reading. Except, you guys don’t actually ready things when I say that, so here’s a summary: • Most minimum wage workers are adults. Less than one in five is under the age of 20 and more than half are between […]

Kevin identifies one portion of the Newsweek story that’s getting consistently overlooked. If Newsweek really was pursuing such a pack of lies, why then, when they ran the story by the Pentagon, didn’t the officials flag it as false? They gave them the heads-up, hell, they gave them the text! And yet no one seemed […]