[litbrit is inspired to look back] Over at Harp and Sword, Minstrel Boy reminds us of Cicero’s bold tactics in court all those centuries ago and posits that our own Senate and House should turn their attentions to the lessons of our forbears: This comes from his first great legal victory. Cicero prosecuted Gaius Verres […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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Republicrats
By Brian Beutler Read David Brooks, Republocrat extraordinaire. This, of course, would mean an entirely new tax ethos for the GOP. For a point of reference, here’s Ezra’s older take on the issue.
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The new CW and the old
By Brian Beutler Link of the day. No one has seemed more surprised by the Democrats’ success in pushing an exit strategy for Iraq than the Democrats. Their aggressiveness and unity on a major foreign-policy challengeto the president is a striking change for a party that has, on manyoccasions over many years, seemed to be […]
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Gender-Specific Networking
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math To make a somewhat obvious point about this topic that somehow still needs to be made today, when a top law firm is overwhelmingly male, there’s no need for male-specific networking opportunities. The law firm itself, and its peers, make one big male-dominated networking opportunity. It takes work to […]
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Democrats and the war
By Brian Beutler The Guardian asked me to flesh out the below post on the supplemental for their newish site Comment is Free, so I’ll link to that, because I think–having more time devote to clarity and background–I made the point more clearly. Keep in mind that, though it’s impossible to disentangle theDemocratic strategy on […]
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Stacking the deck against renewables
(Posted by John.) This Salon article is simply infuriating. As bad as it is when the Kennedys try to deep-six offshore wind power in Cape Cod for absolutely no good reason, it’s worse to me when the government clearly discriminates against wind power and other renewables while lacking a single good reason to do so. […]
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Canadian Politics Minute!
(Posted by John.) It’s so rare for Canadian politics to make it out of the Canadian-blogging ghetto, so let me grasp this moment while I can… I have to say, I’m not nearly as optimistic as Scott Lemieux when he says “Ah, you always have to like it when the ethnic nationalist secessionists finish third.” […]
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Activist judging
By Brian Beutler From The Opinionator comes a study on the Eliot Nesses in the U.S. Attorney corps. Key tidbit: “Data indicate that the offices of the U.S.Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as manyDemocratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a numberthat exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in trafficstops,” […]
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Wal-mart Is The Biggest Donor
by Stephen of the Thinkery Update: Dammit, I don’t know how I got my math so wrong. Corrections in italics. Update II: I had a strong temptation to just delete the whole thing, but if I’m not here to embarrass myself in front of all of you, what am I here for? As a staunch […]
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Supplemental and consensus building
By Brian Beutler This is a big deal. Here’s how Kevin put it, before the votes were in and the deadline language was allowed to stay: “when that happens, George Bush really will be alone, finally forced to make public his commitment to staying in Iraq forever. That will — finally — be the beginning […]