Ezra Klein

The Right is ready to jump off a cliff. I’ll add to this list as the day wears on, but for now, this should give you the flavor. RedState: Me, the sources, everyone it seems was wrong. We’ve all heard the rumors, but not a one could believe the President would do that. Where is […]

RedState is displeased: Me, the sources, everyone it seems was wrong. We’ve all heard the rumors, but not a one could believe the President would do that. Where is our Scalia/Thomas. I think I’ll let the President fight this battle himself, for now. It appears, for what it is worth, that George W. Bush was […]

I wrote this a couple days ago, but it seems worth returning it to the top: Behold Harriet Miers, the current leading name for O’Connor’s vacancy and so complete a sycophant that David Frum thinks her an apparatchik… Harriet Miers is a capable lawyer, a hard worker, and a kind and generous person. She would […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper I don’t want to live in my parents’ basement. It’s a nice basement, and it’s where they keep the liquor and the stereo. But I still have no plans to live there. And my parents, as cool as they are, certainly don’t want me down there. Due to the […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf One of the coolest things about this blog is its emphasis on making complex policy issues accessible to those who never had a chance to learn Tiger-Style Wonk Fu from the ancient masters. As my duty to Ezra’s dojo, I here present a list of three things that one can […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math While the rest of the country has only their municipal elections to worry about this year, Virginia and New Jersey. The New Jersey contest will be something of a walk, though Jon Corzine seems to be doing his best to make things interesting. It’s Virginia that has the […]

By Jedmunds Remember when Walt Disney made the here-to-fore seedycarnival safe for children? Or how about when Vince McMahon did the same withprofessional wrestling in the 1980’s? The recent attempts to do somethingsimilar with porn by Suicide Girls is being exposed as the rank facade it is.Not that they were trying to make porn safe […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Has anyone else noticed the sudden burst of “the media exaggerated Hurricane Katrina conditions” stories? On Thursday, “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” wasted a large chunk of time debating whether or not journalists made too much hay out of the chaos at the Superdome and Convention Center. The repugnant […]

By Ezra As addendum to my Don’t Draft Krugman argument below, it’s worth saying that, contrary to the energy we put into senate races, individual senators can really do remarkably little. Think of last cycle’s great hopes — Ken Salazar and Barack Obama. Heard from either lately? The most waves Obama’s made have been in […]

By Ezra As the nascent call for a Krugman Senate appointment gathers steam, it’s worth playing contrarian for a moment and arguing against. What the Democratic party needs is not more folks willing and able to be Senators, we”ve got plenty of cleft-chinned do-gooders happy to take a free Senate-appointment and work diligently to be […]