Ezra Klein

In this edition, I argue with Byron York and his sweet, sweet do over Al Gore, unions, think tanks, Plame, and all the rest. And I’ve been remiss in not linking to the Blogging Heads cook-off, wherein I served as Spackerman’s sous blogger.

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math It won’t ensure the dismantling of existing voting machines, but via Engadget, it looks like Diebold may be dumping its e-voting unit. As Krist Novoselic said when asked about this at a recent forum on IRV, “If you want a paper record of your vote, you know … just […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math The NYT‘s Week In Review this week features a length front-page piece that, in between quotes from various constitutional wonks [including John Yoo, who at least admits Congress’s prerogative to de-fund the war], reviews previous confrontations between the White House and Congress over matters of war. There’s not much […]

(Posted by John.) Just to add to the whole Delong-Klein remarks about China (and what schoolchildren of the future are taught) I think it’s worth pointing out one of the biggest reasons to be optimistic about future Sino-American relations: America remains astonishingly popular among actual people (if not their governments) even in places where there’s […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf This post by Matt reminds me of something he’d probably want me to say — we’ve got to come up with a better term for people who want to push Israel into violent conflict with its neighbors than the “Israel lobby.” The strange use of the phrase “Pro-Israel” is especially […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Hilzoy has a long and beautiful post on why using war to set up democracy in other countries is so difficult. There are lots of reasons for this, but the reason she discusses hadn’t really occurred to me before:

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Occasional commentor Elizabeth Edwards has a nice post on the whole Ann Coulter brouhaha. I’m happy that she’s using this as a way of attacking homophobia: Although her words did not hurt us, they may have hurt some in the gay community. We are all sick and tired of anyone […]

By Ezra It’s sort of an odd quirk of Atrios’s site that you really have to follow it for awhile before some of the elements make sense. For instance, I eventually broke down and e-mailed the man (the myth, and the legend) himself to figure out why someone named “Holden” kept getting ponies every time […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math This past Wednesday at TPMCafe, Steve Clemons highlighted a bipartisan pow-wow of foreign policy luminaries seeking to clarify constitutional question relating to “War Powers”. Considering the substantial changes in warfare and war-like activities since the writing of the US Constitution, which among other things does not assume that the […]

by Stephen of the Thinkery (sorry, forgot this in the original post) Gallup just released a poll about Americans’ opinions of Mormonism. The results are not surprising, with 46% of the total sample reporting an unfavorable opinion compared to 42% with a favorable opinion. In terms of geographical distribution of opinion, the East had the […]