Ezra Klein

This development seems to have eluded most of the blogosphere, but apparently our new public face in the Middle East looks like an angry transvestite. But seriously, folks. Here’s what worries me about this: DuringBush’s first term, liberals generally lamented his effective neuteringof Colin Powell. I can’t remember how many articles I read thatcontained the […]

As I suspected, Kweisi Mfume’s hat is in the ring. I have to say, even if Steele runs for and wins the GOP nomination, this may not be the old-school/new-school fight I’d been hoping for. Mfume’s opening salvos are distinctly Obamaesque: “My goal is to give a new voice to the issues that affect every-day […]

Commenter Boethius asks: “Science classes might not need the story about “the two naked kids with the apple” but how about literature classes?” This is actually something I’ve wondered about for a while. Supposefor a moment that some monolithic “The Left” and “The Right” gottogether, and The Left proposed a deal: Creationism/ID would be keptout […]

Sorry, Ezra. The dream is dead: Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said on Monday he would support JohnBolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, likely clearingthe way for Senate confirmation of the long-time critic of the worldbody. Hagel of Nebraska was the only Republican on the SenateForeign Relations Committee who had declined to […]

Cheap Shot: Is it me, or is Jenna Bush dating the kid from Deliverance? – Daniel A. Munz

PZ Myers is going to love this one.

I know this is going to come as a galloping shock, but it turns out that our commercial air travel is still vulnerable to terrorism: U.S. aviation remains vulnerable to attack and groups such as al Qaeda may try to target non-commercial planes and helicopters, the New York Times reported, citing a confidential government report. […]

More from TNR: Gregg Easterbrook has a nice, if awkwardly premature, obituary for Pope John Paul II. I’ve always liked JP2, and the article contains some interesting facts about his life, including this: Born in 1920, Wojtyla was a university student when the Nazis invaded Poland; he joined an underground movement that kept learning alive […]

I think Ezra gets it just about all right in his attempt to understand the mystery that is Chuck Hagel. As far as I can tell, Ezra thinks that Hagel’s biggest challenge will be finding a “constituency for a sober foreign policy realist.” This may be true, but I think it’s part of a much […]

The post Brad Plumer’s trying to link to was originally on Pandagon, but since he’s unearthing it for the latest round of NYT subscription stories, might as well reprint it here: I’ve been meaning to say a word about the reports that the New York Times might move towards online subscriptions. And the word I’ve […]