Ezra Klein

The Apostropher catches a lie being born…

Via Nathan Newman comes tell of some innovative methods being used or proposed to force Wal-Mart into the realm of the socially conscious. Montana is considering a plan whereby large retailers would face an additional tax on receipts unless they proved their employees made a living wage. George Miller Ken Toole, the Congressman state senator […]

Damn. That’s exactly what I wanted to say about it.

Mind if I go on a rant for a second? Wel,l it doesn’t really matter if you do or don’t because anyone answering no can’t enter the site. What? Typepad doesn’t have a screening system? Well fuck this, I’m not doing the blog then. Why should I? I’m leader of the free world, in case […]

Awesome.

Brad’s point that: The way things are going, in the future people are going to be choosing to spend X percent of their income on health care. X will get larger and larger over time, by choice. So let’s say X is 40 percent. From one standpoint, it really doesn’t make a difference whether you […]

Wow: One thing is for sure: the discrimination represented in that lunch monitor’s tap on my praying nephew’s shoulder will not stand. Like Rosa Parks, religious conservatives refuse to shuffle to the back of the bus. The story there, for interested readers, is that the nephew prayed before lunch, a hall monitor told him not […]

Responding to Meyerson’s article (which excellently lays down the Democrat’s problem with the working class, but hides when solution time comes ’round), Brad Plumer writes: Personally, I’m against “economic populism” as a political strategy. I prefer something along the lines of Eliot Spitzer’s outlook on things: use regulation to correct market failures and get the […]

Call me a softie (unless you’re Peter Beinart), but I found this post of Berube’s weirdly poignant: First the laptop goes, then the coffeemaker…I wouldn’t bother blogging about such a thing if not for the fact that the coffeemaker in question– one of those nice steel carafe things that keeps your coffee warm without having […]

Bob’s characterization of stir-fry as a cooking method for kids who can’t cook is, I must admit, terribly offensive. Reading it, I began to feel nauseous and had to leave the room for fear of fainting. Having calmed down and regained my grip on consciousness, I feel obligated to defend stir-frying. Stir-fry is a damn […]