If you think policy seriousness in general and health care expertise in particular are important, you may want to throw a few bucks to Judy Feder, the congressional candidate mounting a surprisingly strong challenge in Virginia’s 10th. She’s a longtime health care wonk who’s spent the last few years as dean of Georgetown’s Public Policy […]
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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TIME FOR ANOTHER LEFT-RIGHT ALLIANCE!
TIME FOR ANOTHER LEFT-RIGHT ALLIANCE! Following up on the questions as to whether speech suppressed through perceived intimidation truly threatens free expression everywhere, I await the uproar over revelations that Abe Foxman and other prominent Jewish leaders “convinced” the Polish Embassy to cancel Tony Judt‘s talk on the Israel lobby for being “too controversial.” The […]
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HELP AMERICA BELIEVE IT CAN VOTE.
HELP AMERICA BELIEVE IT CAN VOTE. E.J. Dionne has a good column today about H.R 515, Rep. Rush Holt‘s augmentation of the Help America Vote Act to ensure paper trails, create routine, random audits of two percent of precincts, and keep voting machines offline where they can’t be remotely tampered with. The bill currently has […]
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Happy Columbus Day
It’s sort of odd to take a day off in supposed celebration, rather than apology, for a murderous, brutal, rape-happy colonizer. Not to be a downer about it, but the dude was pretty loathsome.
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You Know Better
Sigh. Come on Jane Winterspeak, no Democrats are focused on putting Wal-Mart out of business. The anti-Wal-Mart movement — including Wake Up Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart Watch — want to see the employer unionize, pay better wages and benefits, and stop choking out their suppliers. No one I know, including me, wants to see the largest […]
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And Now We Wait For Godzilla
On the North Korea nuclear test, there’s not a whole lot to say. Expect the usual suspects to rattle their sabers, but the truth is, sabers are relatively useless when their target has atomic technology. Obviously, Bush’s strategy on North Korea was a total failure, just as it has been on Iran, just as it […]
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Well Knock Me Over With A Feather!
Remember Wal-Mart’s big, exciting, PR-friendly program to lower prescription drugs prices? A bait-and-switch.
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Bredesen’s BS
Forgot to mention this yesterday, but it’s rather appalling to see Tennessee governor Phil bredesen hanging out in the New York Times counseling Democrats to “concentrate on a single issue: health care.” When last we saw Bredesen, he was kicking nearly 200,000 folks off TennCare, the state’s health care program. He has, since then, sought […]
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You Go, Wal-Mart
Daniel Gross makes a great point about Wal-Mart’s Great Registration Drive of 06: It is disproportionately African-American. African-Americans are about 11 percent of the American population and vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. According to this CNN exit poll, they went for Kerry by an 88-11 margin in 2004. But African-Americans constitute nearly 17 percent of Wal-Mart’s […]
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The Great Risk Shift
Over at The Washington Monthly, Jacob Hacker is blogging about his new book, The Great Risk Shift. I’ll be mixing it up with Mr. Hacker later in the week at TAP, but for now, check out his piece and think seriously about whether, as he believes, a war against economic insecurity is really a coherent […]