Ezra Klein

Instinctively, I agree with Suzanne Nossel — America should be pushing hard on Mugabe to make Zimbabwe’s next elections actually fee and fair, rather than the brutal mockeries they currently are. For that matter, we should be leaning on Thabo Mbeki — and I mean leaning hard — until he withdraws his support and legitimation […]

The Bush administration is renewing, or at least redoubling, its assault on labor. Now organized unions will face more audits, tougher scrutiny, and a host of other small obstacles and shackles meant to distract them from representing their workers. This, of course, comes on the heels of the NLRB’s decision to focus on card checks […]

Brownstein’s got a nice piece today walking readers through the traps and pitfalls of a Republican dominated government. He does not — thank God — fall on the old and idiotic claim that Democrats lack ideas, instead claiming, correctly, that our ideas are remaining bottled: The Democrats’ biggest problem is that they don’t have a […]

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Over at our place, we’ve been pretty preoccupied with the “liberal academy” topic for about a week now…I’m not satisfied with the single-phrase explanations for liberal faculties (“We’re more open-minded” or “Conservatives like money more”), though perhaps many of these ideas contain bits of truth. But we need to start working on a more comprehensive […]

You might have seen that various conservatives are trying to rename the “nuclear option” the “constitutional option.” It’s dumb frame, and it should be ceaselessly ridiculed. Indeed, the term “constitutional option” is so vague as to be meaningless. Apparently, the cons who are propogating the term relying on Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2 of […]

I think the national Dems have been doing pretty well in the coming debate over the “nuclear option” on judicial nominations. Let me offer a few humble thoughts. In a debate like this, in which the issues at stake are reasonably removed from what most voters think about every day, Lakoff-inspired framing is of unusual […]

So I just did my first ever set of taxes. And enjoyed it. Not sure why, but I thought it kinda fun. By the time I was done, almost everything I was paying was destined for Social Security’s coffers, and I felt pretty good about that, too. So taxes? Not as hellish as I’ve been […]

Lindsay Beyerstein’s review of Sin City is the best I’ve read. She says what I should’ve, but had neither the time nor talent to communicate. Read it. Also — one weird aftereffect of the film’s style is that I can’t seem to visualize it as live action. Other moviegoers can weigh in on this, but […]