By Brian Beutler As both a blogger and a (once and future) political reporter, I can help Matt with this one: “I really do enjoy all the blogosphere in-jokes and so forth and would miss them if they went away, so maybe the only thing to do is educate, educate, educate. So have at it, […]
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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Beauty Is Truth–Terrible, Cruel, Exquisite Truth
[litbrit looks on] James Nachtwey The truth is rarely pure and never simple.–Oscar Wilde Photographer James Nachtwey finds beauty–and even grace–in scenes some would consider too heartbreaking, too graphically affecting, to look at for more than a moment before turning away with eyes full of tears. To those I would ask, is that not the […]
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Hawking Harold’s heady harticle
By Brian Beutler I know that blogging has not quite wound its way into my DNA just yet, but Ezra asked me to help him take a vacation, and what better way to start than by suggesting you all read his boss’s op-ed, which suggests four explanations for the curious fact that the Republicans have […]
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Chicago Bound
I’ll be in Chicago for the rest of the week, so blogging will be limited, if at all. Frankly, I need the break. And I’m slightly freaked out by how odd I find the idea of five days sans posting. Ah well. In the meantime, our ace weekenders will be contributing content, as will Brian […]
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Weird Times
I sometimes forget how crazy the pre-Iraq period was. In searching for something else, I ran across this Jeffrey Goldberg comment from a Slate discussion on invading Iraq: There is not sufficient space, as well, for me to refute some of the arguments made in Slate over the past week against intervention, arguments made, I […]
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Power of the Tubes
CAP has very helpfully posted up video from each of the candidates at last weekend’s health care forum. That’s some good wonkin’. Update: Holy hell, that intro music burns like the screams of Satan himself. Update the Second!: Notice how Edwards appropriates — correctly! — the language of choice to sell his public healthcare option: […]
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What A Florida Wants
Responding to news that Florida is trying to move their primary to January 29th, a week before super-duper-Tuesday, Chris Bowers writes: Florida is doing this, I guess, because they feel they don’t already have enough say who becomes the next president. No state has suffered more than Florida from the indifference of presidential nominees to […]
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THE WRONG HETERODOXIES….
THE WRONG HETERODOXIES. This, from Ross Douthat, is a very smart analysis of the current trends on the Republican side of the aisle: the party needs someone who’s solidly right-wing on issues like immigration or gun control or campaign-finance reform – issues that matter more to the base than to swing voters – and who […]
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Carpool Lanes
I don’t understand the adoration some Californians have for the carpool lane. It is an achingly rare occasion that you can actually go any faster there than in any other lane. If caught in traffic, you will actually go slower, as the carpool lane limits movement in and out, and so when drivers actually have […]