Ezra Klein

Cheap Shot: Is it me, or is Jenna Bush dating the kid from Deliverance? – Daniel A. Munz

PZ Myers is going to love this one.

I know this is going to come as a galloping shock, but it turns out that our commercial air travel is still vulnerable to terrorism: U.S. aviation remains vulnerable to attack and groups such as al Qaeda may try to target non-commercial planes and helicopters, the New York Times reported, citing a confidential government report. […]

More from TNR: Gregg Easterbrook has a nice, if awkwardly premature, obituary for Pope John Paul II. I’ve always liked JP2, and the article contains some interesting facts about his life, including this: Born in 1920, Wojtyla was a university student when the Nazis invaded Poland; he joined an underground movement that kept learning alive […]

I think Ezra gets it just about all right in his attempt to understand the mystery that is Chuck Hagel. As far as I can tell, Ezra thinks that Hagel’s biggest challenge will be finding a “constituency for a sober foreign policy realist.” This may be true, but I think it’s part of a much […]

The post Brad Plumer’s trying to link to was originally on Pandagon, but since he’s unearthing it for the latest round of NYT subscription stories, might as well reprint it here: I’ve been meaning to say a word about the reports that the New York Times might move towards online subscriptions. And the word I’ve […]

Garance Franke-Ruta’s argument that the Democratic advantage on Social Security might be enough to save the program, but might also lose us seats if we don’t take the next step forward and create a compelling narrative that protects us from the obstructionist label. I’ve been arguing this for awhile, but to support it with everybody’s […]

Damn that Sam Rosenfeld. Here I was planning to digest the in-depth coverage of the DeLay scandals and summarize the excellent work being done by The Stakeholder, The Daily DeLay, and Think Progress so you could all keep score at home. But he got there first. Sigh. Go read. But remember, it would’ve been me […]

All the speculation on Rice is just weird. Is there some natural constituency for her that I’m unaware of? Even assuming support from the Black community, it’s not like African-Americans swarm Republican primaries (nor find themselves particularly influential in Iowa or New Hampshire) or Dobson’s group is going to warm to a “mildly pro-choice” candidate. […]

In fighting the Bolton nomination, the guy to watch on the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee is Chuck Hagel. Unlike most Republican internationalists, who’ve found the ideal out of necessity, and most Democratic internationalists, who’ve arrived there through convenience, Hagel’s got a real commitment to the philosophy. That should make Bolton’s nomination anathema to him and, […]