From the Other Klein, this is an important point: Even the loveliest, sweetest-smelling of pols must place himself in the proximity of scuzzballs these days. John Edwards may not take any PAC contributions, but he probably has more than a few skeevy ambulance chasers contributing to his campaign, one of whom may be involved in […]
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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A PRODUCTIVITY PRIMER….
A PRODUCTIVITY PRIMER. As Dean Baker notes, productivity growth is slowing, which may well presage a fairly significant recession. Productivity has been a tricky indicator in recent years, as it used to track quite closely to wage growth, but that link has severed over time, and economists don’t really know why or what to do. […]
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A Productivity Primer
As Dean Baker notes, productivity growth is slowing, which may well presage a fairly significant recession. Productivity has been a tricky indicator in recent years, as it used to track quite closely to wage growth, but that link has severed over time, and economists don’t really know why or what to do. In the midst […]
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So What You’re Telling Me Is We’re All Going To Die.
It’s a lucky trick that my utter bafflement over why this administration does not sink $50 million into locking down loose nuclear materials overwhelms the total terror I’d otherwise submit to: On September 9, 2004, a division of Halliburton dispatched from Russia to Houston, via air freight, a diagnostic tool used in oil fields which […]
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ON OCCASIONAL SOLIDARITY….
ON OCCASIONAL SOLIDARITY. I think this is an important post by Matt, and it’s worth adding that the substantive priorities of the labor-Democratic alliance are oddly rearguard. So retaining civil service protections in government agencies is of transcendent importance, but effecting actual change in the country’s organizing laws is not. Card check was, to be […]
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Consider It Blogged
My new trivia technique is unstoppable. And it mainly consists of picking my team really well. But Dave is right: Great feats deserve bloggy triumphalism. And so let the history books record that with Julian Sanchez, Megan McArdle, Dave Weigel, and Lindsey Gibson arrayed around my table, the Liberaltarian alliance triumphed for the second time […]
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Who Runs Iran?
WHO RUNS IRAN? Mark Kleiman is bothered, rightly, by the tendency to treat Iran as a sovereign, Western-style country whose actions “are the results of political conflicts and agreements among Iranian politicians, interest groups, and factions.” In other words, when we talk about Iran, we don’t take the complexities and oddities of its politics into […]
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WHO RUNS IRAN?…
WHO RUNS IRAN? Mark Kleiman is bothered, rightly, by the tendency to treat Iran as a sovereign, Western-style country whose actions “are the results of political conflicts and agreements among Iranian politicians, interest groups, and factions.” In other words, when we talk about Iran, we don’t take the complexities and oddities of its politics into […]
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Learned Hand
It really is a shame that Judge Learned Hand never made it to the Supreme Court. Names like that — particularly in individuals of relevant talent and grace — don’t come along but once in a generation, and we owe it to our children to elevate the easy-to-remember to historical positions. Also, there used to […]
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STANDING MATTERS. …
STANDING MATTERS. Yikes. The only two countries viewed less favorably than the US are Israel and Iran? We need to work on our people skills. Look, I know that folks on the right like to dismiss these international surveys as equivalent in importance to high school yearbook awards, but there’s a serious diplomatic point lurking […]