Ezra Klein

Kristof is rightfully getting slammed for his op-ed arguing Democrats need to spend less time obstructing Bush’s efforts to eviscerate Social Security and more time offering responsible plans of their own. As so often happens with these things, Kristof seems to have drawn his column from some collective press mind, as the same daring idea […]

Mr. John Rogers wants to know if you Bit Torrenters would actually pay cash for television shows, and if so, how much. My answer is yes, so long as I wasn’t paying for cable on top of it. That seems the future of TV, broadband-delivered entertainment that you decide on, which is a hell of […]

My good buddy John Edwards just sent me an e-mail with his plans for the next couple of years. Figured you guys might want to know them too: I am very proud to say that I will be joining UNC to launch its new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, which will examine innovative and […]

Digby (italics mine): Let’s face facts. The extremely dishonest approach that the Republicans are taking to bring African Americans on board with their privatized personal retirement plan is just downright racist. I’m sure that the creationist right believes that the fact black men don’t live as long as whites is God’s intention but the truth […]

Crowley’s analysis of the Democratic SOTU response is spot-on, even as it’s in-line. While his criticisms of the speech are the best I’ve read (and you should read them), it’s general awfulness and ineffectiveness seem well accepted. The calls are already coming for the tradition to be scrapped, for the minority retort to be let […]

Note to Dems — It’s like this and like this and like that, and uh. Update: I should probably say something more on this. Berry’s genius is in realizing that Bush is making an effective public play to seem reasonable, open-minded, and good-hearted concerning Social Security. He’s using Congress as cannon fodder, getting them to […]

Quoth Taegan Goddard: With yet another article on President Bush’s infatuation with Natan Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy, I’m beginning to think this is the only book he’s ever read. Heh. Indeed.

Dean’s got enough vote commitments to take the position. Rosenberg’s dropped out and endorsed him. Text after the jump.

Josh Marshall has the bad habit of mentioning something ultra-interesting and then shunting it off with a “more later…”, though anxious readers checking back later rarely discover more. Unfortunately, it seems his buddy Steve Clemons has seen Josh that trait and raised him a “thermonuclear exchange”. In context of a post on presidential speaking fees, […]

So Peter Beinart is taking a leave from TNR to expand his article “A Fighting Faith” into a book. You guys remember the piece, it called for a return to hawkish liberalism and a party purge of “softs” like Michael Moore. It pitted Democrat against Democrat and liberal against DLC’er. It did, one might say, […]