Ezra Klein

I love me my Shakespeare’s Sister. And I don’t love me my John McCain. So how come her post explaining how “wonderfully easy to disassemble into a collection of putrid little pieces” he is leaves me more convinced of his potential popularity? Obviously, John McCain isn’t going to get the thirty percent of Americans who […]

Nothing in this post is novel, but it was interesting to think through again. James Fallows, one of the finest reporters working today, just published a foreign policy cover piece in The Atlantic arguing for a declaration of victory in the war on terror, and a new approach to securing the country. Interesting stuff, and […]

Why is it that after reading this column, I couldn’t shake the image of an exhausted Rich Lowry, panting atop a freshly thrashed pile of straw, furtively glancing around to see if anyone was watching?

Nice to see unions figuring out the internets.

I’m glad to hear Angelides endorsed Prop. 89, California’s clean money initiative. Early word was he’d stay out of that one, preferring to keep the special interests on his side during a sure to be expensive gubernatorial campaign. It’s a sign of his character — and possibly desperation — that he did precisely the opposite. […]

So is this what they mean by a revelation?

Kevin Drum writes: McCain unbeatable? After eight years of a Republican presidency? Not only does that sound indefensible as a general proposition, but it doesn’t sound like Bill Clinton, either. He’s always struck me as the ultimate fighter, the guy who never gives up and always thinks there’s got to be a way to win. […]

Steve Clemons claims he’s got some tip-top sources on a potential Reid-Clinton deal wherein Hillary would withdraw from 2008 and, in return, Reid would bequeath her the minority/majority leader position in 2009. A few points: • If true, this is Reid’s way of signaling he thinks her candidacy will be a debacle for the Party, […]

Andrew Sullivan has been going after Kaus this week for suggesting that gay men are inherently more promiscuous than straight men. Silly as that may be, Kaus really lowers the boom on Sully here: When I was at the New Republic one of Sullivan’s big editorial stunts was publishing and praising a long excerpt from […]

I’m both fascinated and unconvinced by Scott Winship’s essay on the netroots’ ideology this morning. Scott argues — convincingly — that whether or not the netroots are ideological in nature, they are liberals. No argument there. The problem comes in the next step of the analysis, the effort to decide whether or not this personal […]