Dana Fisher has an eye-opening article comparing the grassroots strategies of the left and the right: According to Karen Hicks, who worked as the National Field Director for the Democratic Party in 2004 after running Howard Dean’s presidential campaign for the state of New Hampshire: “The trend within the Democratic Party has really been to […]
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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YOUR LIBERAL MEDIA….
YOUR LIBERAL MEDIA. Real Clear Politics has entered a content deal with Time magazine, and will now have their blog hosted on Time’s servers. “TIME.com hosts a diverse chorus of political voices,” said Josh Tyrangiel, the editor, “and we’re excited to add the Real Clear Politics blog to the mix.” Except that’s not true. Real […]
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WHY DO THEY…
WHY DO THEY TORTURE? Ron Suskind, writing in last week’s Time, details the path of the al-Qaeda 14, the captured terrorists whom Bush based his appeal for torture on, and provides a good look into the politics of torture within the Bush administration. As he tells it, there were two operating paradigms in the immediate […]
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A DIFFERENT TYPE…
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF IMMIGRATION. Sebastian Mallaby has a good column arguing that lax immigration policies are one of the better developmental strategies open to wealthy countries. As he argues, if rich countries opened their borders to allow in the equivalent of three percent of their workforce, it would be equal to an extra $300 […]
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The Trouble With Prosperity Christianity
The September American Prospect features a terrific excerpt from Walter Benn Michaels new book The Trouble With Diversity which I’ve been meaning to talk about, but really haven’t achieved sufficient clarity in my own thoughts to address. Michaels argues that: So now we’re urged to be more respectful of poor people and to stop thinking […]
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GOREWATCH. Obviously…
GOREWATCH. Obviously no one is saying Al Gore is going to run. Obviously no one is insinuating Al Gore is running. Obviously no one is suggesting that his decision to write The Assault on Reason for Penguin Press and publish it next May is in any way motivated by an impulse to keep testing the […]
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The First Refuge Of The Scoundrel
I’ve been a little loathe to enter the furor over Ann Althouse’s repulsive smear of Jessica, if only because Althouse’s point was so self-evidently cruel and unfair that it seemed unworthy of further publicity. But PZ Myers’ post reminds me that there’s a larger issue at stake. For those blissfully unaware, Jessica’s summary of the […]
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The House and Wall Street
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Matt Stoller points to DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) bragging about Democrats’ ability to broaden fundraising by “working outside of traditional banks”. This is troubling, to say the least. [Two-sentence history: outside of labor and the plaintiffs’ trial lawyers, Demorats had very few business constituencies once dirty industries started […]
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Are We Getting Robbed on Prison Labor?
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Brad Plumer had a typically good post on prison labor a couple days ago. He describes how corporations are making a lot of money off of making goods in prisons, where they’ve got a (literally) captive labor force that they can pay miniscule wages. There’s plenty of questions to be […]