Ezra Klein

Anybody remember this op-ed from Tommy Franks, attacking John Kerry during the election? The one where he said: take Mr. Kerry’s contention that we “had an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden” and that “we had him surrounded.” We don’t know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in […]

What? Another revolution? In Kyrgyzstan? It’s like a flu going around (somewhere, Malcolm Gladwell heard that and raised a fist in solidarity). In any case, this one seems like it went pretty orderly, which is all you can hope for. I don’t pretend to know anything about the situation in Kyrgyzstan so I’ve no way […]

Timothy Garton Ash is quite right on this — the EU should be ashamed that it needed White House pressure to maintain its arms embargo on China. Readers know I’m something of an EU booster, mainly because I think their emphasis on diplomatic relations, morally defensible policy-making, and emphasis on soft power are proving pretty […]

Now for the promised health care post. I don’t claim to know as much about health policy as Brad does, so his objections — that stopgap measures will make bad policy and we really need to go to single-payer — should be taken seriously. Not only that, but I agree with them. Nevertheless, politics is […]

Damn that Brad Plumer. Seriously — I link and I link, and where does it get me? Fucking nowhere. I was all excited, everybody else had spent the day worrying about the Trustees Report, while my clever self had sidestepped them and read CAP’s new health care plan. In full. And made notes in the […]

Sir Singer writes: I think I grew up fairly independent. I learned how to cook, clean, launder, etc., as a child, but most of my female friends who live on their own still have cleaner houses than me. They generally are more on their at-home shite than I am. Meanwhile, I’m a good cook, but […]

(I had a pretty wonky post on Social Security ready to go, but Ezra beat me to it, so instead you’re getting my latest rant on the increasingly useless John McCain. Enjoy!) Not to be all Seinfeldian about this or anything, but what is <b>with</b> this guy?! Sen. John McCain said Tuesday the conclusions of […]

From Daniel Munz: With the 11th Circuit Court having rejected the Schiavos’ appeal, it seems like the Supreme Court is their last recourse. It’s sort of inconceivable to me that they would grant cert: Scalia, conservative as he is, must be vomiting at the federal overreach. (Also, does Rehnquist really want to hear a case […]

That, of course, was the day’s big news. Some minor fiddling allowed them to bring the insolvency date a year closer, from 2042 to 2041. An insignificant change economically, but highly significant politically, as it’ll allow them to argue that things are getting worse and, in the worsd of Fafblog!, if we don’t do anything […]

So that went badly. Not only did I sleep through my alarm, losing desperately needed study time, but I also had the time of the final wrong, and so arrived an hour after it began. Not that that really mattered, as I didn’t know enough to write for three hours anyway. Also, I’m sick. And […]