Ezra Klein

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math This past Wednesday at TPMCafe, Steve Clemons highlighted a bipartisan pow-wow of foreign policy luminaries seeking to clarify constitutional question relating to “War Powers”. Considering the substantial changes in warfare and war-like activities since the writing of the US Constitution, which among other things does not assume that the […]

by Stephen of the Thinkery (sorry, forgot this in the original post) Gallup just released a poll about Americans’ opinions of Mormonism. The results are not surprising, with 46% of the total sample reporting an unfavorable opinion compared to 42% with a favorable opinion. In terms of geographical distribution of opinion, the East had the […]

By Ezra Who is Joe Klein arguing against here? Even a left-wing strawman would find this recitation of his positions a smidge reductive. And to say that “it would be wildly stupid for me to get into a pissing match by naming names” is basically irresponsible. Either Joe Klein is arguing against real human beings […]

By Ezra Over in his snappily-named “Econoclast” column, Jamie Galbraith argues that the rise in Bush-era inequality differs substantially from the Clinton-era lift. Clinton’s increase, he explains, was driven by private sector innovation, while Bush’s is a function of public sector spending. So when inequality shot up in the late-90s, the data shows the epicenters […]

By Ezra Brad responds to Jeff Faux on China: In 1877, it was the United States that was the rising superpower across the ocean to the west of the world’s industrial and military leader. Today it is China. In 1917 and again in 1941 it was greatly to Britain’s benefit that America regarded it as […]

Over at The Prospect, Noy reviews the Oscar-winning foreign film The Lives of Others. I don’t really know how to talk about movies I really, really like and still make it interesting, but this is a year when the best foreign flick easily beat out the best picture (The Departed), and even though the main […]

It’s good, every once in awhile, to dig through a comprehensive poll and see where the country’s at. For instance, I wasn’t aware that only 20 out of every 100 people approved of George W. Bush’s job performance. I thought he’d have at least, oh, four more supporters in there. And I am surprised that […]

There’s no doubt that Joe Lieberman is the most loathsome Democrat on foreign policy issues. But unfairly little attention is paid to his domestic counterpart, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus. Thankfully, Ari Berman is picking up the slack: A study last year by Public Citizen found that between 1999 and 2005 Baucus, along with […]

In this edition of my favorite blog, we find that raising billions of dollars to combat the AIDS pandemic, fight global warming, ease global poverty, and pursue conflict resolution demeans the dignity of the presidency and is, in the end, nothing more than typical Clintonian “scrounging for money.” Note too the hilarious last sentence, where […]

One of the frequent rebuttals deployed against advocates of universal health care is that, in fact, we do have universal care, it just occurs in emergency rooms. This is true. But even there, being uninsured matters. According to a new report, among hospitalized children, the uninsured are twice as likely to die from their injuries […]