Ezra Klein

A new Quinnipiac poll on SS has been released. Results after the jump.

Michael at Here’s Whats Left has so totally demolished Ann Coulter’s lying assertion that the New York Times is outing the gay children of conservatives that Maya Keyes — child of Alan and one of the gay conservatives the New York Times supposedly outed — has emerged to comment on the situation. And, as I […]

The reason Bush is unexpectedly content to let Social Security privatization simmer (and continue inflicting damage on him) until 2006 is that he might win it. Yes, I know, Democrats are ecstatic about the great successes we’ve had in the battle thus far, but it’s nowhere near over. What scares me about it, actually, is […]

Never mind what I said yesterday. Fuck the DLC. Jesus Christ — how does Al From sleep at night? Update: This wasn’t the DLC so, uh, never mind the post. It was the House New Democrat Coalition, which is basically the DLC-identified members of Congress, all of whom are whoring themselves out for contributions from […]

Over at Eschaton, Atrios is overseeing Bankruptcy Day, in opposition to the awful bill. This is really about as bad as it gets. I can understand the philosophical underpinnings of Social Security privatization — I don’t agree with them, but I can accept that some argue for it in good conscience. Not the Bankruptcy Bill. […]

Campus Progress has a superb article profiling Guy Benson, an up-and-coming attack poodle still finishing up college. The piece is great, a must-read both on an intellectual level and as a simply enjoyable piece of reporting. I do, however, want to highlight this quote: I spent a lot of my time with Guy trying to […]

I think Matt (Singer) gives Joe Klein and the Moose too much credit on this one. The answer to a radical right challenge is to fucking crush it. Seriously. I try to be reasonable and even-tempered here, but this is an ideological invasion. The way to repel it is not to run some mushy centrist […]

There’s been a lot of talk about the DLC’s increasing marginalization lately. From Digby’s terrific post on what drove him from their side to Kenneth Baer’s article on how they can revive themselves (become reformers and modernizers), the 20th anniversary of From’s organization is garnering the same sort of props that the founders of New […]

Has anyone else found it a bit odd that every single magazine cover lauding Lebanon’s march towards freedom has personified the uprising in hot women? Newsweek did it (and here), as did The Economist, and US News and World Report, and the Weekly Standard, and, if I had a copy of Time, I’m sure I’d […]

As I mentioned a few days ago, I spent Saturday night watching Malcolm Gladwell read from his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The reading was at The Hammer, a terrific museum just blocks from my house. He packed it. Their 250 person auditorium became standing room only and, when that ran […]