For today, anyway. Thanks to those who helped me rework the spacing and font of the miniblog (that awesome new [well, new-old, I used to have one] feature on the right sidebar). Now I’d just like to insert a space between the “Miniblog” header and the items. There’s no place to do it in the […]
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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Keep Religion Out Of Politics!
Matt says it was nothing more than a function of his inability to set his own lighting. But that is, if you’ll excuse the term, an obvious incompetence dodge. Rather, the aesthetics of his latest BloggingHeads against Jon Chait clearly signals that Matt battles alongside the forces of light, while Jon has been dispatched, and […]
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WARNER’S ANTI-POPULISM. …
WARNER’S ANTI-POPULISM. If you want to know why I think the hype about Mark Warner is oddly misguided, look no further than his recent comments lambasting the Kerry campaign for attacking Bush‘s top-bracket tax cuts. He takes up that favorite of chin-stroking op-ed columnists everywhere, arguing that “Even though the Bush tax cuts only applied […]
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Gore’s Revenge
Rumor has it that Bush is readying an “astonishing U-turn on global warming.” We’ll see what the actual policies propose, but no one could fail to credit Gore’s pressure as the prime mover.
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Mark Warner’s Anti-Populism
If you want to know why I think the hype about Mark Warner oddly misguided, look no further than his recent comments lambasting the Kerry campaign for targeting Bush’s top-bracket tax cuts as poor strategy. He takes up that favorite of chin-stroking op-ed columnists everywhere to argue that “Even though the Bush tax cuts only […]
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THE CURSE OF…
THE CURSE OF BUSH. The topic du jour over at The Corner is an exploration of what a mean guy and poor candidate George Allen is. K-Lo thinks he often comes off “as a disturbingly nasty guy,” Jonah notes that when he’s backed into a corner “he becomes decidedly unReaganesque both in his sometimes gormless […]
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What McCain Needs
John McIntyre gets a lot right here: The political error McCain and his advisors are making, insofar as it relates to 2008, is that this isn’t about the specifics of the policy, which will be sorted out in time and which McCain’s war record does provide him cover with conservatives. What really hurts him looking […]
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GORE SPEAKS. …
GORE SPEAKS. Around the time Al Gore‘s movie came out, a number of conservatives criticized the film for not advocating for a carbon tax. By obscuring the necessity of that policy choice, he was making his case look too easy and the solutions artificially simple. But whether or not he acknowledged it the film, Gore […]
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Gore Speaks
Around the time Al Gore’s movie came out, a number of conservatives criticized the film for not advocating a carbon tax. By obscuring the necessity of that policy choice, he was making his case look too easy, and the solutions artificially simple. But whether he popped it into the film, Gore has long been a […]
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The Trouble With The Trouble With Diversity
Speaking of the Walter Ben Michaels book, LB has posted up some extended thoughts on his central diversity vs. inequality arguments, and I agree with just about every word. So earlier, when I wrote that I “really haven’t achieved sufficient clarity in my own thoughts” to address the book at length, I should’ve just written […]