Ezra Klein

This Foreign Policy article by Tina Rosenberg explodes a lot of conventional wisdom about AIDS, and is well worth reading in its entireity. However, what really surprised me was the fact that patients in poor countries are much, much, better about keeping up with their drug regiments for AIDS than us Americans, where only about […]

Via Laura Rozen, we learn that The WSJ reports that the US believes North Korea could be preparing a nuclear test. It has asked China to pressure North Korea to prevent it. Not to put too fine a point on it, but doesn’t the guy in charge of preventing this kind of thing have a […]

Thanks to Ezra for inviting me back, and thanks to co-guest-blogger Amanda Angelica for being awesome. I want to offer my apologies for being a little late on the posting thing, although I guess that’s only true in East Coast Time. It took a little longer than usual to get all the bread products out […]

Daniel Munz, from Politics and War, and Angelica, from Battle Panda, will be filling in this weekend. Dan, as you know, rocks, and Angelica, as you may not know, also rocks. You lucky people you!

[Hi all. ‘Tis Angelica, otherwise known as Battlepanda.] Watergate and Monica. Yeah, they’re the same. Don’t take my word for it, listen to retiring congressmen Henry Hyde, who lead the <strike>witchhunt</strike> impeachment efforts against Clinton. The veteran republican is also admitting for the first time that the impeachment of Clinton may have been in part […]

It’s Friday, I’ve got to run to the airport in an hour, and the shower beckons (actually, demands). But before all that — Japan! Also, in response to popular demand, I’ve grouped the series into a separate “Health of Nations” category. Collect all five! Da Basics: Japan’s health insurance is another one of these employer-based […]

Last night I went to a lecture by Samantha Power, she of A Problem From Hell fame. If you ever get a chance, see her speak — she’s amazing. And for that matter, buy her book (or buy it for me — yes, I lack all shame), she’s an incredible mind and was somehow able […]

Sigh. Silly Santorum — you can’t fight the weather. And trying isn’t going to close the 14-point gap between you and Casey…

Maybe I’m overestimating the power of Powell, but I have to think his decision to actively lobby against Bolton effectively kills the nomination. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is notable for its motley collection of Republican moderates — guess the rest of the caucus wanted to cut taxes or something? — and they’re exactly the […]

Via DC Media Girl, Hindrocket’s having an aneurysm over this. Not the bankruptcy bill that targets — and fires on — the poor, not the leave-the-money-on-the-nightstand ethos that produced the energy bill, but this. A T-shirt. That’s what made him wonder “HOW SICK CAN THE LEFT GET?” A T-shirt on CafePress.com. If I had the […]