Ezra Klein

One more time, let’s have no question of what Edwards is staking his next run on: In what appeared to be an early start for the 2008 campaign cycle, John Edwards told New Hampshire Democrats on Saturday that poverty was “one of the great moral issues of our time,” and he pledged to help fight […]

I won’t be watching the Superbowl today. Like Steve Clemons, I just can’t get excited about big dudes chasing each other up and down the field. It’s weird, I love football — played it for four years — but, like with all other sports, I have no interest in watching others do the deed. And […]

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

5/13/2002: President Bush on Monday signed a 10-year, $190 billion farm bill that promises to expand subsidies to growers. “This bill is generous and will provide a safety net for farmers, and it will do so without encouraging overproduction and depressing prices,” Bush said at a signing ceremony. “It will allow farmers and ranchers to […]

Is Iran the future of Iraq? With religious Shiite parties poised to take power in the new constitutional assembly, leading Shiite clerics are pushing for Islam to be recognized as the guiding principle of the new constitution. … At the very least, the clerics say, the constitution should ensure that legal measures overseeing personal matters […]

Kristof is rightfully getting slammed for his op-ed arguing Democrats need to spend less time obstructing Bush’s efforts to eviscerate Social Security and more time offering responsible plans of their own. As so often happens with these things, Kristof seems to have drawn his column from some collective press mind, as the same daring idea […]

Mr. John Rogers wants to know if you Bit Torrenters would actually pay cash for television shows, and if so, how much. My answer is yes, so long as I wasn’t paying for cable on top of it. That seems the future of TV, broadband-delivered entertainment that you decide on, which is a hell of […]

My good buddy John Edwards just sent me an e-mail with his plans for the next couple of years. Figured you guys might want to know them too: I am very proud to say that I will be joining UNC to launch its new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, which will examine innovative and […]

Digby (italics mine): Let’s face facts. The extremely dishonest approach that the Republicans are taking to bring African Americans on board with their privatized personal retirement plan is just downright racist. I’m sure that the creationist right believes that the fact black men don’t live as long as whites is God’s intention but the truth […]

Crowley’s analysis of the Democratic SOTU response is spot-on, even as it’s in-line. While his criticisms of the speech are the best I’ve read (and you should read them), it’s general awfulness and ineffectiveness seem well accepted. The calls are already coming for the tradition to be scrapped, for the minority retort to be let […]