Ezra Klein

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Shakespeare’s Sister gets cited in the Chicago Tribune, in an article on what it means to call someone a ‘ho’. “People think sexism is pretty much gone. You hear people say, ‘Girls, get over it.’ But no one—outside of people in the Bush administration—would say that racism is gone.” There’s […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Usually my coverage of the Democratic primary race has an Edwards-related focus, but this piece by Chuck Todd on Hillary, Obama, and what you can tell about their campaigns by their responses to the Imus situation is too good not to link to. (Or maybe I’m just surprised to see […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I hear you’re looking for an incredibly succinct summary of the Democratic party’s message. I present to you the ’08 Democratic Platform in 10 words: Out of Iraq Universal Health Care Global Warming’s a Problem You can replace “Global Warming” with “Poverty” if it polls better. Run this by […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Tom Friedman goes digging for an environmental pony. And Andrew Sullivan too. We’ve been here before. Look, if the right-of-center green intellectuals think that a carbon tax is the way to go, they need to start convincing right-of-center politicians to say so. Otherwise we’ll end up with a cap-and-trade […]

Tomorrow at Cato: Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia? POLICY FORUM Monday, April 16, 2007 12:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow) Featuring Johnny Munkhammar, Program Director, Timbro, Sweden; Ezra Klein Writing Fellow, American Prospect; and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. The Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 Most of Western […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math One of the side effects of getting Don Imus off the radio is that it eliminates one of a handful media outlets whose audience skews towards right-of-center, conservative-but-reachable quasi-populist white men. Well, there are plenty of other outlets, but Imus was the rare bird who was also receptive to […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Like Ed Kilgore, I’m having a hard time trying to unpack what’s going on in the Republican Primary field. It’s hard to forecast how any of the Three Stooges will win the hearts and minds of both the anti-tax wing of the party and the pro-life wing of the […]

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By Ezra Over at BeliefNet’s Virtual Talmud blog, there’s an interesting argument over the utility of reparation payments for the Holocaust. West Germany paid restitutions in the 50s, and the united Germany set up a fund for needy Holocaust survivors in the 90s, but pressure continues against Austria, various corporations that profited from Jewish slave […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf So here’s a pretty nice policy idea from John Edwards: if the IRS already has all the information it needs to do your taxes, as it does for about 50 million Americans, why don’t we spare you the trouble and have the IRS do your taxes by itself? The IRS […]