Ezra Klein

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Last night, over an extraordinarily good Italian dinner, a buddy of mine explained to my girlfriend and me why ideology doesn’t matter, only partisanship. His point was a Kossian one, that the party need not bother itself worrying about conservative Democrats and liberal ones, just whether they’re committed to the cause. And at this juncture, […]

So Pete’s just sold the last multigrain scone. And it wasn’t to me. Those things are like crack! Denied my fix, I have no idea what to do with my Sunday morning. Should probably blog. Or study for finals. Or…bah.

Regular readers know how much I appreciate the Center for American Progress’s work — the tax plan, Think Progress, the Progress Report, Campus Progress, etc, all are excellent examples of what a progressive think tank should be doing. But the one thing a progressive think tank should not be doing is calling itself a progressive […]

Justin Logan says everything that needs to be said on the subject.

That Nathan Newman sure knows how to drive home a point: Prosecutors announced they were dropping all criminal charges against Wal-Mart for its use of contractors employing undocumented workers in exchange for paying an $11 million fine, a hefty sounding amount but a pittance for a company with $288.2 billion in sales last year. Let’s […]

The huge fuss the GOP is making over Terry Schiavo would be understandable, if not respectable, if they could marshal some poll numbers that showed, like on gay marriage, that the issue was a political winner for them. But it’s not. 65% of Americans think Schiavo’s husband should have the final say on her care, […]

If I were Joe Lieberman and highly-respected economist Paul Krugman was criticizing me on misrepresenting a fiscal matter, I think I’d assume his exhaustive understanding of the issue trumped my experience as AG of Connecticut and leave the matter there — who reads and remembers Paul Krugman anyway? But I am not Joe Lieberman and […]

Saw Gunner’s Palace last night. Like others already have, I recommend you check it out immediately. The film brilliantly succeeds in showing the routinization of life in a war zone, taking pains to neither demonize nor canonize the fresh-faced kids who serve as the stars. Unlike many documentaries, there is no plot, the editors have […]

Terry Schiavo, if I understand her condition, is an essentially brain dead woman who has languished in a coma for a decade, who shows little to no hope of ever rediscovering consciousness, and who, even if she did snap to attention, would be so desperately brain damaged that she could never function. Her cerebral cortex […]