Ezra Klein

Daniel Munz will be pitching in this weekend. I’ll be posting as well. Enjoy the show.

Steve Clemons, who’s playing doing the Josh Marshall thing and becoming your one-stop shop for anti-Bolton organizing, has an action alert today: Please immediately call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Majority Staff) office at 202-224-4651 and state that while you are not opposed to the Bolton Hearings themselves, you are asking Senator Lugar NOT TO […]

Nathan’s wondering why labor is spending a boatload of cash in LA to oppose the candidate they backed four years ago. A bit of background — Villaraigosa, the current challenger (and favorite) who lost in the runoff last time around is a former union organizer, the guy bleeds labor. Hahn is a progressive dude, but […]

I have to imagine that a large portion of blog readers want to jump off a cliff every time a new Social Security post pops up. It seems, at least it did to me, that one day Matt, Kevin, and Brad awoke, having undergone a Matrix-style download of Social Security data (“I know kung-fu bend […]

No wonder the Founding Fathers were so into God…

August Pollack thinks my suggestion that whichever party controls the Oval Office during a national crisis can use it to massively enhance their image on national security is implausible. His counter-argument, basically, is that if 9/11 happened in 1998, Republicans would have mauled Clinton over it: They would have brought up Waco, clearly making subtle […]

WIth Matt joining the call (Atrios, Digby, Me) for the DLC to Sister Souljah the bankruptcy bill, it seems the left has reached consensus on this. Except that means the DLC can no longer do it. The whole point of a Sister Souljah is that it’s an unexpected action that preemptively proves you or your […]

Reacting to Matt’s TAP column, Brad Plumer writes: Maybe Bush’s democracy agenda will be so successful that foreign policy if off the table in 2008 or 2012. And Democrats can then swoop in with their unbeatable economic/cultural message. Fine. But the price of all that is that Republicans further enhance their long-standing image as the […]

I spent from 3AM to 9:30AM driving up to Santa Cruz, so I’m pretty wiped. Posting today will be light. In any case, all will be normal tomorrow. Use this as an open thread to tell me what to write on, as I’m a bit too tired to trawl through the blogosphere for inspiration. But […]

The Moose is joining Phil Carter and Paul Glastris in calling for mandatory public service for all young Americans on national security grounds. I’m a bit conflicted on this — I see the appeal of the plan, and I’m certainly not adverse to the idea of national service, in some ways, I think it’d be […]