During an otherwise provocative post on Fight Club, Amanda offers up a fairly serious misreading of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. She characterizes Laura, Rob’s ex-girlfriend, as representing adulthood by being dull. Where they met as 24-hour party people, she’s now a lawyer. Where Rob clings to his rundown record store and dingy flat, she’s begun […]
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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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One Strike and You’re Out
A piece I just did on why it so many 19-year-olds lack health care.
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What’s Right With Kansas
Former Republican Party chairmen are fleeing their party and allying with the Democratic guv. They may even create a unity ticket. Folks know what an unabashed Sebelius backer I am, so anything that brings her further political capital works for me. If she does end up running with a Republican, look for her to become […]
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The War on “The War on Terror”
Right though Matt Stoller’s riff on the inadequacy of the “War on Terror” metaphor may be, I don’t care how big your lock is, them horses are way gone. Attempts to reframe the discussion will inevitably be cast as efforts to undersell the dangers of terror — never a good box to be in. Hell, […]
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GOREWATCH. So…
GOREWATCH. So far as all the speculation that Gore has released his fundraisers and is definitively out goes, color me unimpressed. To be clear, I don’t think Gore will run — I’d put the odds at 60:40 against. But the decision has nothing to do with his funders. As Rich Lowry notes, Gore doesn’t, in […]
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THAT EXPLAINS IT….
THAT EXPLAINS IT. If you’re ever confused about the GOP’s puzzling determination to eliminate the broadly supportable estate tax, this report showing that George Bush, Dick Cheney, and their cabinet will personally gain between $90 and $340 million dollars from the tax’s repeal clarifies things considerably. As for amassing the political will for the battle, […]
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Why Steve Jobs Doesn’t Listen
Every couple of months, you get an article demanding that iTunes start following the laws of economics and cease charging the same price for Shakira and The Coup. Occasionally, the record companies get into the act, leaking their unhappiness with a dominant service that doesn’t allow them to jack 50 Cent’s CD up to $16.99. […]
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“She’s a pushy lady and she looks slightly garish and thus she inspires contempt and ridicule.”
Read Sam on Nancy Pelosi.
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It’s Fun Being an Individual
Via Jim comes this depressing story. Only, don’t let it depress you (or at least don’t get that depression treated), lest you never get health insurance again: Concerned that ugly family fights were upsetting his young children, a Boston-area lawyer went to a therapist and let his health insurance pick up part of the tab. […]
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MAY ACTUALLY DO…
MAY ACTUALLY DO A HECKUVA JOB. With Treasury Secretary John Snow finally on his way out, Bush has named Goldman-Sachs CEO Henry Paulson to be Snow�s replacement. Paulson is — believe it or not — a serious, competent guy who comes, like Robert Rubin before him, from Wall Street. Better yet, he retains a reputation […]