Ezra Klein

Stuff you may have missed: • The Center for American Progress’s Progressive Problem. • The Unbearable Lightness of Wal-Mart’s Fine • Why Punting Schiavo Back to the Courts is a Stupid Idea for Democrats.

I’m going to quote the Rude Pundit in full on this one: the AP story, the CNN story, the Fox “News” story and others all say that the Senate “unanimously” passed the thank-Christ-we’re-not-talking-about-Social-Security Terry Schiavo bill. Technically, this is true. But all these articles fail to mention what the Miami Herald does distinctly note: “Only […]

Final Update: So I spent some time tonight reviewing the end of the Killian scandal and looking into CBS’s report myself. My conclusion, for what little it’s worth, is that Goodall’s article (which I summarized in the post) was misleading, if not wrong. Anyway, my original piece follows the jump, so you can read it […]

That’s quite a list of holdings.

Have you visited Big Brass Blog yet? Why not?

Last night, over an extraordinarily good Italian dinner, a buddy of mine explained to my girlfriend and me why ideology doesn’t matter, only partisanship. His point was a Kossian one, that the party need not bother itself worrying about conservative Democrats and liberal ones, just whether they’re committed to the cause. And at this juncture, […]

So Pete’s just sold the last multigrain scone. And it wasn’t to me. Those things are like crack! Denied my fix, I have no idea what to do with my Sunday morning. Should probably blog. Or study for finals. Or…bah.

Regular readers know how much I appreciate the Center for American Progress’s work — the tax plan, Think Progress, the Progress Report, Campus Progress, etc, all are excellent examples of what a progressive think tank should be doing. But the one thing a progressive think tank should not be doing is calling itself a progressive […]

Justin Logan says everything that needs to be said on the subject.

That Nathan Newman sure knows how to drive home a point: Prosecutors announced they were dropping all criminal charges against Wal-Mart for its use of contractors employing undocumented workers in exchange for paying an $11 million fine, a hefty sounding amount but a pittance for a company with $288.2 billion in sales last year. Let’s […]