Ezra Klein

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. Workers will […]

Shorter Sebastian Mallaby: Because Democrats disagree with my ideas, they are the party of no ideas.

I heartily agree with Matt’s comments on last night’s Wire, and want to reiterate the Marlo-is-a-gigantic-asshole critique. Avon Barksdale, for all his murderous tendencies, was an unsettlingly likable character. You didn’t want him to go to jail. You didn’t want him to lose. For every instance of brutality, there was another of compassion, a paean […]

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By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Wanna watch some Democratic Senate ads with me? C’mon, they’re below the fold!

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Well, now we know … something. I wanted a strong answer to the question “how much do coattails matter?” and spent some time digging up the relevant bits of information. But real-world data don’t always support a clear conclusion. After examining the results of federal elections between 1982 and […]

(Posted by John.) In the last week, there’s been a bit of hype about a company called EEStor. Relatively little is known about the company, who are continuing their aggravating habit of limelight-avoidance. What is known largely comes from Tyler Hamilton, a Toronto Star reporter who’s done most of the reporting and blogging about EEStor. […]

One problem with attempting to make strategic judgments from our perches atop the couches of America is that the folks whose behavior we are predicting and handicapping often don’t work off quite the same analysis of the situation that we do. Therefore it’s a good thing, when possible, to actually hear foreign leaders laying out […]

(Posted by John.) Despite all the debate in places like Canada or Denmark, the reality is that the fate of global climate change will be decided by the actions of a few large countries – primarily the US and China, with India catching up fast. CO2 emissions in the US are, predictably, already huge. China […]

Because I don’t even know what to say anymore: With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state. The Public Expression of Religion Act – H.R. 2679 – provides that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions as […]