Ezra Klein

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Today’s vote on the Iraqi constitution happened with minimal violence. At least one critical day has passed without crowds of people dying. Even though the counting just started, we’re likely going to see waves of Purple Finger Photos as the administration trumpets the referendum’s success. But Just Another Bump […]

Daniel Gross on the hunt for the next Fed chairman: the biggest danger for Bush is not that the next Fed chairman will be lax when it comes to fighting inflation. It’s that he will use his Congressional testimony or his public speeches to speak honestly about the implications of the fiscal policy, to note […]

By Ezra Spent last night at the movies seeing Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, his black and white hagiography of CBS’s Edmund Murrow. For those who don’t know the story, Murrow was a newsman who cut his teeth during World War II, becoming a famed correspondent and parlaying the notoriety into a television show. […]

Does it not seem that the GOP’s 2008 primaries are going to prove particularly chock full o’ nuts? Democrats always have the odd liberal outlier or two, but Republicans, now, have Tom Tancredo commanding an army of xenophobes while Sam Brownback promises to install Christ back on the Oval Office. And these guys may be […]

I thought Noam Scheiber was joking on this. Apparently not: Moderates must insist, à la Galston and Kamarck, that Democrats won’t win back the White House unless they convince voters to trust them on national security, which means making the war on terrorism not just the party’s top priority but its central preoccupation in 2008. […]

The Sandwichman is right, if the good folks running SEIU’s Since Sliced Bread contest don’t get a bit savvier in a hurry, the freepers will organize, vote, and SEIU, en route to the judging, will have spent a couple months showcasing how tort reform and a full-repeal of Davis-Bacon can help the working man. As […]

How great would it be if Bush followed up on Greenspan by nominating a fully-qualified, broadly-respect candidate to chair the Fed? I’d happily trade an incompetent on the Supreme Court for a steady hand stroking the markets. And now, via Brad DeLong, The Economist has a pick: [W]e believe the best choice would be Don […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Since Ezra will be at shul all day, I guess it makes sense for we goyim to pinch hit; though I’m wishing I wasn’t such a putz that it took me until 4pm pacific to realize that would be a good idea. Ay gevalt … … In any […]

It’s Yom Kippur today, so no posting. Instead, why don’t you think about what you’ve done?

Perfect: Giblets has so much compassion he has decided to declare war on poverty and destroy it forever! Behold his three-step plan – NO! – his three-compassion plan – to hunt down poverty and kill it where it lives! COMPASSION THE FIRST: FREEDOM! Poverty hates our our way of life: that is why it is […]