Ezra Klein

From a New Yorker profile of Donald Trump from 1997: The phone range — Jesse Jackson was calling about some office space Trump has promised to help the Rainbow Coalition lease at 40 Wall Street. (“Hello, Jesse. How ya doin’? You were on Rosie’s show? She’s terrific, right? Yeah, I think she is.”) That would, […]

Over at the investing megasite TheStreet.com — which, fun fact, Marty Peretz founded — there’s a wonderfully revealing article explaining the “10 Reasons You’re Not a Millionaire.” Here are the 10: 1. You care what your neighbors think. 2. You aren’t patient. 3. You have bad habits. 4. You have no goals. 5. You haven’t […]

(Posted by John.) …along with a whole host of regulatory tools: the fuel efficiency benefits of hybrid cars are disappearing with the introduction of heavier, higher-performance cars. The exact same trend that’s been operating for the past 30 years: engines get more efficient, but the efficiency is used to get bigger cars accelerating more briskly, […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I’m with Nick Yglesias in preferring blogging over vlogging. Probably the biggest reason is that I can read a lot faster than people can talk. So vlogging is just a slower way to get the same amount of content. (It’s even worse when I’m using one of these 5-year-old iMacs […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf That’s John Edwards’ lead over John McCain in the latest Rasmussen head-to-head poll. Good will following the cancer announcement undoubtably helped him, but it’s a much larger lead than I would’ve expected him to have at this juncture. By comparison, Rasmussen’s most recent Hillary-McCain poll, released 9 days ago, has […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Our friends at Pandagon have made me aware of the furor over sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro’s “My Sweet Jesus”, a 200-pound anatomically correct life-size sculpture of the Lord made entirely out of milk chocolate. (Here’s a photo of the sacrilicious work.) Bill Donahue’s comment: “This is one of the worst assaults […]

(Posted by John.) There’s a lot that I agree with in Michael Berubé’s post here on the “sovereignty left”, but I think this is actually an easy question to answer: And it is in both camps’ interest to pretend that Kosovo, Afghanistanand Iraq were all part of the same enterprise: all three wars were warsof […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf It’s a year and a half old, but I liked this semi-long article on gay adoption from everyone’s favorite libertarian, Julian Sanchez. It covers a lot of ground, including the shift in cultural attitudes towards acceptance of gay adoption and the consensus among academic researchers, social workers, psychologists, and pediatricians […]

(Posted by John.) …just kidding, of course. Joseph Romm — Clinton-era energy booster — has highlighted a pair of articles about the way the media has misreported probably one of the most basic elements of global warming: rising sea levels. Essentially, the media took the IPCC’s low-ball estimates and made them the only acceptable predictions. […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Set aside the scaremongering from Phylis Schafly about unisex bathrooms. What are the practical consequences of enacting the Equal Rights Amendment? What rights does it protect that the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment, now interpreted to apply broadly to stop discrimination against any “suspect class” including women, […]