The gruesome murders and planned rapes of the Amish schoolgirls is a horror that, to be honest, I lack the stomach or courage to fully confront. That it came on the heels of another grotesque rape and murder of a schoolgirl simply compounds my speechlessness. Echidne, however, has a steadier hand than I, and capably […]
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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RETURN OF THE…
RETURN OF THE LIBERTARIAN DEMOCRATS. Writing in this month’s Cato Unbound, Markos lays out the case for Libertarian Democrats — a socially libertarian, fiscally moderate ideology he’s been formulating over the past couple of months. Reading the essay, it would seem we could as easily be talking about Technocratic Democrats, or Silicon Valley voters, or […]
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Return of the Libertarian Democrats
Writing in this month’s Cato Unbound, Markos Writing in this month’s Cato Unbound, Markos lays out the case for Libertarian Democrats — a socially libertarian, fiscally moderate ideology he’s been formulating over the past couple of months. Reading the essay, it would seem we could as easily be talking about Technocratic Democrats, or Silicon Valley […]
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Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars has its third season premiere tonight, and shadowy figures of immense charm and persuasive grace have reminded me to tell all you to watch. I got hooked on VM last season, after my friend Chris Hayes wrote an article explicating the show’s explorations of class conflict. As he put it: Progressives have an […]
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HILLARY’S TREASURE. …
HILLARY’S TREASURE. Looks like Big Business is betting on a Big Future for Hillary Clinton. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, she’s now the #1 recipient of cash from over 27 different industries. Telecommunications, accounting, health care, Hollywood, restaurants, publishing, tourism, architects…the list goes on, and offers little in the way of coherence or […]
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New York Times Smash!
The Times has a fantastic editorial on Wal-Mart’s plans to screw its workers over. A taste: For instance, Steven Greenhouse and Michael Barbaro reported yesterday in The Times that employees at several Florida stores say that managers are barring older employees with back and leg problems from using stools they had sat on for years. […]
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GOTV FOR YOU…
GOTV FOR YOU AND ME. With the GOP engaged in an implosion so total that one imagines it must be purposeful (did Bill Frist really call for rapprochement with the Taliban? I mean, he’s actually right, but yikes), there are few refuges left for electoral pessimists like myself. But of those remaining, the GOP’s vaunted […]
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And Then A Floating Head In A Jar
First a woman, then a black, then a Jew, then a Hispanic, then, much later, an Asian, followed by a Mormon, and only then an atheist, and only then a gay. What am I talking about? How supportive Americans are of electing folks from each category president. My guess is these numbers are improperly skewed […]
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Good Yontif
My personal tradition on Jewish holidays is to spend some of the day reading the theologian who’s influenced me most deeply: Abraham Joshua Heschel. I generally pick a couple pieces from Spiritual Audacity and Moral Grandeur, the best compendium of his exquisite essays. Hoping to share some of these, I spent some time searching for […]
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WAL-MART GETS MEAN….
WAL-MART GETS MEAN. Hopefully, folks aren’t getting tired of hearing me talk Wal-Mart, as odds are the chatter won’t let up anytime soon. How could it, when each new day brings news this worrisome? Word from the retailer now is that Wal-Mart is set on converting its workforce to a heavily part-time, salary-capped labor pool. […]