Ezra Klein

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I’m a bit late to the party the Mark Schmitt threw, but if campaign finance mavens are looking for rationales to support another bite at the political reform apple, they might want to start with the tremendous time sink that is dialing for dollars. With top House races now […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I hope everyone will forgive another round of soul searching on the function of the blogosphere. When we last looked at the state of Presidential campaign blogging three weeks ago, we saw that both partisan and intra-party attacks generated significantly more coverage than any other news events. No speech […]

By Ezra I don’t have a whole ton to say about the voucher schools argument going on between Matt, Kevin, and the newly-renamed McMegan. I’m pretty sure, though, that arguing this out through the frame of single-payer health care is almost certainly unwise, and you should probably, when talking about major changes in education policy, […]

by Stephen of the Thinkery “Global warming” is turning into yet another way for the right wing in this country to stymie debate on an important subject. Whenever environmental issues are brought up, conservatives immediately turn the conversation into a debate over global warming: whether human causes for it are proven or not, evidence that […]

[litbrit worries] The richest and most developed nations in the world are forging ahead with plans to cut carbon emissions significantly by the year 2020. But the United States–arguably the richest and most developed of all, and inarguably the world’s largest per-capita consumer of natural resources and contributor to carbon emissions–is still not on board. […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I’m so happy to see John Edwards saying this: Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Thursday outlined his plan to tackle global poverty that calls for educating 23 million children in poor countries and creating a Cabinet-level position to oversee other initiatives. Seeking to link poverty in other countries to […]

by Stephen of the Thinkery It’s because he’s been signing bills at a furious pace. Of interest is the medical marijuana bill that he just signed. What it does is set up a system whereby patients with a doctor’s authorization can receive marijuana from New Mexico’s Health Department. I’m going to assume that this won’t […]

Thanks, Rob. So I actually watched a bit of Kaus’s Bloggingheads, which wasn’t nearly as enraging as I’d expected: Kaus is too petulant to be genuinely offensive. But his assault demonstrates something interesting. Kaus’s fury towards me appears related to my judgment that “neoliberals did much to correct the Democratic Party’s image, but not much […]