The Scariest Six Paragraphs On How Governments Respond To Financial Crises
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein is out with one of the most sobering assessments of the past three years of U.S. economic policy and the effects of the stimulus.The progressive blogger and columnist...
View ArticleEZRA KLEIN: Here's The Real Mistake Obama Made In Handling The Economic Crisis
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein reviews Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men in an essay in the New York Review of Books, but takes issue with the argument that Obama's staffing choices (Larry Summers,...
View ArticleOne Simple Reason Why Health Care Costs More In The US Than Anywhere Else
Americans are feeling the pinch of rising health care costs more than any other nation in the world. A huge reason why is simply that America lets providers set prices.The Washington Post's Ezra Klein...
View ArticleEZRA KLEIN: The Next Debt Ceiling Fight Could Be As Big As Lehman, And Change...
Want to get freaked out?Watch the Washington Post's Ezra Klein on Up with Chris Hayes this morning, wherein he explains how the next debt ceiling fight (that will happen next spring, most likely) make...
View ArticleEZRA KLEIN: These Four People Can Determine The Next President
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post argues that four people can have an outsized hand in determining who wins the election in November. They are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the European...
View ArticleREPORT: MSNBC's Liberal Bulldog Ed Schultz Might Lose His Show To Ezra Klein
Buried in the third-to-last paragraph of Brian Stelter's New York Times story about MSNBC coming to relish its role as the "anti-Fox" is this nugget:Several MSNBC employees, who spoke about programming...
View ArticleHere's The Real Reason People Hate Their Individual Market Health Insurance
At the top of this morning's Wonkbook, Ezra Klein says President Obama "shouldn't apologize for blowing up the individual market." Ezra's right that the individual market for health insurance is a...
View ArticleEzra Klein Reportedly Sought An 'Eight-Figure' Investment To Stay And Build A...
Ezra Klein, who runs The Washington Post's "Wonkblog," is reportedly planning to leave the newspaper, according to The New York Times' Ravi Somaiya.One of the more shocking nuggets from the report is...
View ArticleEzra Klein Is Leaving The Washington Post
Ezra Klein, the creator of The Washington Post's "Wonkblog," is leaving the publication for a "new venture," the Post announced Tuesday morning.The news was announced by managing editor Emilio...
View ArticleEzra Klein Teams Up With Vox To Launch Combination News Site And Encyclopedia
Vox Media, the parent company of SB Nation and The Verge, has recruited former Washington Post journalist Ezra Klein. Together, they're launching a news site.Temporarily dubbed "Project X," the site...
View ArticleHere's What Everyone Is Too Polite To Say About Ezra Klein, Wonkblog, And Vox
Last night, word broke that Vox Media – which owns SB Nation, The Verge, and the Curbed Network – hired Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and a few of his friends to create a new politics site.Klein...
View ArticleThis delicious-looking burger wants to change food the way that Tesla changed...
You want to eat this burger, don't you?I bet you do. I do too! It looks delicious. Meaty and seared and juicy and all the good things you'd want from a tasty burger.Would you believe this burger is...
View ArticleDAN RATHER: America is 'a lot more fragile than we would like to believe'
Veteran journalist Dan Rather said that the 2016 presidential election — particularly the candidacy of Republican nominee Donald Trump and his vitriolic treatment of the press — has changed how the...
View ArticleWe asked 11 media outlets how their coverage has changed since Trump's...
Between his declaration of the press as the "opposition party" and his adviser's use of "alternative facts," President Donald Trump's contempt for mainstream media outlets has drawn the relationship...
View ArticleA journalist got dragged for saying 'America isn't at war' in an Election Day...
Journalist Ezra Klein, the founder and editor-at-large for Vox.com, argued that the Tuesday election was a "pure repudiation" of Trump, since unemployment was so low and America was no longer at...
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