Ezra Klein

This isn’t the first time Hillary and Newt have joined forces to push small-bore health improvements, but as both gear up for 2008 runs, it’s worth taking it seriously. It’s perhaps emblematic of where the parties are that these foes have ended up following such different strategies en route to 08. Newt just wrote a […]

Kos makes some interesting points on Kerry that I think, in the end, are a bit off: People who worked for Dean, Edwards and Clark all passionately loved their man. The campaigns stuck together. Why? Because the campaigns were based in the candidates’ home states. Hence, staffers had to move to work on those campaigns. […]

Now that Maher and Stewart are flourishing and Dennis Miller’s show has been canceled, can we once and for all bury the idea that liberals don’t have a sense of humor? You might look at Limbaugh and O’Reilly and Hannity and conclude that liberals lack the hormones for righteous anger, but I think we’re decisively […]

Ayelish McGarvey has written the single most devastating profile of a public hypocrite that I’ve ever read. Some of you may remember David Hager, the FDA appointee who recommends belief in Christ as the best medicine for female ailments and has taken an almost entirely faith-based approach to public medicine, which led the Bush administration […]

I know I’m a day late on it, but Matt Miller’s column is worth a 48-hour comment-cycle, so off we go. I should start by saying that I like Miller. His book, The 2% Solution, is one of my favorites, if for no other reason than it presents policy ideas in an engaging, readable format, […]

Fixed the banner problems (where it wasn’t showing up on archive pages). Also, made it smaller. Also, made the content area wider. Well, actually, Daniel Munz did that, but the point is it got done. Everybody like? Anything else I need to do before I close the door on the redesign?

John Cole’s got more on United’s liquidation of its pensions. The story, amazingly, gets worse. While the Bankruptcy Bill was steamrolling through Congress, Dick Durbin offered an amendment that would’ve “protect[ed] employees and retirees from the common corporate practice of discharging liability for retirement plans, retained earnings and matching funds when businesses file Chapter 11.” […]

I have to back soon-to-be colleague Matt up: when he took Kate and I to the French Roast for bistro fare at 3 in the morning, I found nothing rancid about it. Matt’s horrified reaction, however, to my mixing of avocado and burger, would’ve made you think I was ordering poison. Nevertheless, no one, least […]

Give it up for Marshall Whittman, this paragraph is really very clever: The Moose can hardly contain his glee over tomorrow night’s exchange of vows between Tom DeLay and the conservative movement. After cohabitating for years, the relationship between their sleazy leader and the movement becomes official. The Moose understands that the happy couple is […]

Bad, bad precedents: A bankruptcy judge last night approved United Airlines’ request to terminate its pension plans, clearing the way for the largest corporate pension default in history and setting the stage for a possible strike by the airline’s flight attendants. The federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. will take over the airline’s $645 million in […]