GOREWATCH LIVES! Been a bit since we did this, but both Dave Roberts and Brian Beutler have been liveblogging today’s congressional testimony from Al Gore. Meanwhile, I’m confused. First, Joe Klein tells me that based on Gore’s global warming proposals, he may be running for president. Then, Grist’s David Roberts tells me that, based on […]
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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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‘Roids
I never really know what to say on the steroids topic (and whatever I do have to say won’t be nearly as incisive or funny as what Chuck Klosterman has to say), though I’m pretty sure that folks have it backwards. Insofar as there’s a rationale for keeping athletes from doping up, it’s not because […]
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WAL-MART AND SEIU….
WAL-MART AND SEIU. I’m a bit skeptical of SEIU’s alliance with Wal-Mart in this interview I did with Andy Stern, so it’s probably worth making the opposite argument as well. Stern’s attempt to enlist Wal-Mart as an ally rather than an enemy in the fight for universal health care is, I think, precisely the right […]
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Emphasis
Harold pulls no punches: Consider the dilemma of the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and a leading figure in the Southern Baptist firmament. Writing in his blog this month, Mohler acknowledged that ” the direction of the research” increasingly points to the possibility that a “biological […]
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No Taxation Without Representation!
Man, they really don’t want to give DC a vote. Bush is threatening to use his second-ever veto on the bill that would grant DC (and Utah) an empowered congressional representative, apparently because he’s super-committed to a read of the Constitution that limits congressional representation to states (a read denied by many constitutional scholars, who […]
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My Head, Blogging, Part IV
In this episode, Will Wilkinson and I defend my honor, throw the gauntlet down for Kaus (and demand satisfaction!), talk about risk, guns, and why no one should go to grad school, and end with my genius analogy explaining which presidential candidates are like which video game systems.
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Dancing With the Devil?
On February 7th, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced a surprising accord with Wal-Mart on the need for universal health care. The unlikely partnership quickly fell under criticism, with other unions and progressive reformers attacking SEIU for allowing Wal-Mart to garner good press from agreeing, in principle, to universal health care without making a […]
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Are Prisons the New Sanitariums?
A disturbing factoid from Harper’s Index: Percentage of American adults held in either prison or mental institutions in 1953 and today, respectively: 0.67, 0.68 Percentage of these adults in 1953 who were in mental institutions: 75 Percentage today who are in prisons: 97 And I’m sure they’re all better when they get out.
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Inside the Googleverse
I don’t have a lot to say on the subject, but Justin Fox’s ruminations about growing pains and a possible culture war within Google are pretty interesting. Relatedly, I was at a party the other day when I ran into a friend who works for Google, as well as one of her colleagues. Upon finding […]
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More Quixotic Magazines, Please!
I’m also glad to hear the mega-rich, English-first financier Ron Unz is going to play angel to the American Conservative. If more wealthy dudes wanted to fund ideologically marginal political publications, that would be a good, invigorating thing for the nation’s debate. The American Conservative is willing to make arguments more mainstream institutions would find […]