Ezra Klein

Is the “Read More” feature working now, or are people still being deposited betwixt my name and photo? And someone mark down my 20 points for correctly using “betwixt” in a sentence. Update: All signs point to yes. Greg, who figured it out, is just as talented as he claims.

Good post by Kos on the changes Reid has wrought. The Senate Dems really have transformed from a yipping, useless caucus to a united opposition force. And it’s as much in what they do — The 10 Leadership bills, Schumer retiring the DSCC’s debt in record time — as in what they feel freed to […]

I’m getting complaints that clicking on “Read More…” vaults you to the top of the page. This isn’t happening for me, but it’s widespread enough that I should try and fix it anyway. So all you html geniuses out in the audience — any idea what’s going on? if it helps, something weird happens when […]

During an overly busy Monday, an important post got away from me. Yesterday morning, the Senate Democratic Leadership unveiled the 10 bills comprising the year’s Democratic agenda. And they’re good. Max has the policy papers up for download, Steve Soto has more in the way of summaries and I’ve put the Leadership’s rundown after the […]

PZ Myers is right: if evolution is a religion, religion is no longer a word with a recognizable meaning. That’s what’s so confusing to me about that rebuttal; do creationists really want to argue that religion is nothing more than a way of explaining certain portions and conditions of reality? I would think they’d want […]

In the land of the cool, Random House discovered a genius author working in their mailroom and, after getting a five-figure, two-book deal, he’s still toiling among the envelopes. Oh, and his book might become a movie. It doesn’t get much sweeter than that. Via The Elegant Variation.

I want to engage something Ed Kilgore says in a much-larger post on Southern politics: While there may be exceptions in states like Louisiana and the border-state Missouri where there are extraordinarily high concentrations of both fundamentalists and Catholics, I don’t believe there is a popular majority in any southern state for overturning basic abortion […]

With Republicans sweatily gripping all the levers of government, it’s worth taking a moment to see how the worm has turned. MoJo blog had a great post showing that Bush’s speech wasn’t so much penned by Michael Gerson, as lifted from an acceptance address 50 years ago:

Fafblog! 1/20/05: Can you doubt the freedom-spreadery of Giblets? Giblets has decreed Iraq to be free and now it is! Oh sure, not in the petty “liberal democracy with equal protection under the law” sense. But in the “infested with terrorists” sense it’s as free as they come! Once Iraqis were tortured and killed by […]

With little-to-no expertise in labor issues, and no memory of a time when unions were strong, it’s hard for me to enter the debate between Nathan Newman and Chris Bowers. So I won’t. Suffice to say that Chris castigates elected Democrats for abandoning labor and Newman replies that our politicians are quite favorable to labor, […]