Ezra Klein

Jesse Lee, writing at the Stakeholder, makes an important point: It’s hard to say how many headlines away that day is, but as we’ve said before, something has certainly shifted. The past week has seen literally a half dozen separate stories written on doubts within the GOP Conference about DeLay. That never happens. And DeLay’s […]

Over at The Corner, John J Miller asks: If somebody put a pistol to Schiavo’s head and pulled the trigger–you know, to give the “dying process” a little nudge–would the shooter be guilty of murder under Florida law? If a conservative pundit thought he was being clever but instead made an analogy so flawed that […]

Actually, it wasn’t last night. Last night was probably my fifth Spearhead show. But if you’ve not seen them live, you really, really, should. For reasons I don’t understand, blogospheric music recommendations are sole property of the Indy Music Alliance, and so all we’re ever told is “go see Arcade Fire” or “Death Cab for […]

Aren’t conservatives supposed to be for, you know, limited government and congressional restraint and states’ rights and stuff? Yeah? So tell me how they can possibly justify following up their subpoenas to Major League Baseball with yet more subpoenas stopping doctors from pulling Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube and forcing her and her husband to testify […]

Centenarian George F. Kennan has died. Historically astute readers will know his as the author of the “containment” doctrine, which essentially guided our foreign policy through the Cold War. What most won’t know, what I didn’t know, is that Kennan felt his strategy significantly overapplied. As he conceived of it, containment was meant to protect […]

The special exemptions and rules given to Wal-Mart should really be a national shame. That a case concerning illegal child labor has ended with the transgressor getting a 15-day advance warning before any future inspection of its stores and a 10-day abatement period to rectify any abuses found during the prescheduled inspections is just flabbergasting. […]

Luntz is such sleaze. His op-ed in the LA Times isn’t even the sort of thing you can rebut, you can only point out the slime oozing off every word. The contention that his true aim in life, linguistic humanitarian that he is, is to clear policy debates of obfuscation and inject language that fairly […]

I’ll be on MSNBC’s Connected: Coast-to-Coast during the 5 eastern/2 pacific program. They think my segment will hit about 15 minutes in, but you never know. Update: So that didn’t go as planned. You’d think live coverage of a Senate hearing is the sort of thing you’d know about before I was in the studio, […]

With DeLay sinking ever deeper in his ocean of ethical violation, DCCC chief Rahm Emanuel has decided to capitalize: Democratic House leaders are casting about for squeaky-clean congressional candidates — even if they’re long shots — to challenge prominent GOP incumbents who have been tainted by news reports of their allegedly unseemly connection to lobbyists. […]

I’m not sure Brad Plumer’s comments on CAP’s tax reform plan are fair. While he’s right that raising revenues to 17.2% of GDP isn’t enough to close the deficit, this plan isn’t really a tax proposal ready for implementation, it’s a tax proposal ready for prime time. The aim of it, quite overtly I think, […]