TO FIRE, OR NOT TO FIRE? It looks, rather surprisingly, like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner are readying to take substantive stands against the Bush administration�s attempt to torture by another name. The nut of the disagreement is over Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular […]
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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Bush’s Speech
It would be abhorrent if it weren’t so predictable. Bush wrested network time for his 9/11 speech by arguing that it would be, in no way, a political address. Tony Snow promised that it was “not going to be a political speech — there are no calls to action, there are no attempts to segregate […]
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Why Emanuel Hates Dean
In a funny bit of intra-Democratic news from this week, the burgeoning rapprochment between Rahm Emanuel and Howard Dean included an agreement on how much the DNC would spend in 2006, and almost contained a “good behavior” clause in which the DNC would donate more money if Emanuel stopped bashing them to the press. It’s […]
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WHY EMANUEL HATES…
WHY EMANUEL HATES DEAN. In a funny bit of intra-Democratic news from this week, the burgeoning rapprochement between Rahm Emanuel and Howard Dean included an agreement on how much the DNC would spend in 2006, and almost contained a “good behavior” clause in which the DNC would donate more money if Emanuel stopped bashing them […]
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TALKIN’ BOUT MY…
TALKIN’ BOUT MY GENERATION. Talking about the strange perceptual gap wherein the middle class feels insecure even while it wields relative affluence, Scott Winship writes: it’s the I’m OK-They’re Not Syndrome at work. In The Optimism Gap, journalist David Whitman described a phenomenon common to a number of areas of public opinion. People will often […]
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Laffey’s Revenge
Yikes. Is this really the best image they could pick of a triumphant Lincoln Chafee?
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The Real Problem With Earmarks
The Sunlight Foundation, proprietor of the aforementioned awesome earmarks map, explains.
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GOREWATCH. Pat…
GOREWATCH. Pat Buchanan, no stranger to insurgent candidacies, is arguing that Al Gore is well-placed to defeat Hillary Clinton and take the Democratic nomination. Most of his points are, I think, perceptive and convincing, but his final grafs falter. “Hillary,” Buchanan writes, “has the option of waiting much longer to decide when and whether to […]
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Facebook Feed
For those of you who don’t use Facebook, the online community site had an interesting controversy last week. A new feature called The Feed was added. Now, on your front page, every action taken by any of your friends was displayed. In other words, every time you made a new friend, left a comment, uploaded […]
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LIVE LONG AND…
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, DEPNDING ON WHO YOU ARE. I talk a lot about health care and economic inequality, but too rarely about health inequality. But a new study out today sheds some light on this issue: If you subdivide various demographics, you find life expectancies differ by decades, with some American groups exhibiting outcomes […]