Ezra Klein

Chris Cillizza’s case for Fred Thompson is pretty convincing. Thompson sounds like a much more dangerous candidate than anyone else the GOP has put forward, and given the obvious room for a “true” Republican candidate, I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t enter the race. The big, obvious weakness is that he sat atop the […]

New research suggests it might: [Neuroscientist Charles Hillman] rounded up 259 Illinois third and fifth graders, measured their body-mass index and put them through classic PE routines: the “sit-and-reach,” a brisk run and timed push-ups and sit-ups. Then he checked their physical abilities against their math and reading scores on a statewide standardized test. Sure […]

The latest Time Magazine has an article on internal criticism of Ahmadinejad that demonstrates something important: The scene was like the Iranian answer to March Madness. At Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran this past December, a crowd of several thousand packed the school’s auditorium. On one side were hundreds of members of the […]

I always figured it would be over testimony on war intelligence rather than personnel matters, but it looks like prosecutor-gate may finally trigger that Constitutional crisis we’ve all been anxiously awaiting. Democrats are determined to get Gonzales and Rove under oath and before committee; Bush is determined — or so it seems — not to […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In light of the news that an image of George W. Bush received a strong ovation at an AIPAC conference, and other related questions surrounding influence on Israel-related foreign policy, allow me to ask a question that will cause me to be labeled and anti-Semite, strangle in the crib […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Having followed the housing bubble only tangentially, my impression is that the problem with the looming foreclosure fiasco has little to with a large number of idiosyncratic income shocks leading to rising nonpayments. Nor does it have to do with a macroeconomic downturn. Rather, it has to do with […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I have mixed feelings about Scripture-based gotchas—they sometimes feel only a step up from dictionary/encyclopaedia-based gotchas—but “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is not, in fact, the 2nd commandment in the Old Testament [no graven images], or even the 2nd New Testament commandment. Let’s […]

(Posted by John.) Lt. Col. John Nagl, US Army, is one of the acknowledged experts on counterinsurgency thought in the US armed forces. Author of Eating Soup With a Knife, his history of 20th century counterinsurgency campaigns such as Vietnam and Malaya, he’s one of the guys you want to listen to about Iraq. So […]