- Ezra Klein
- Columnist
Ezra Klein is a columnist at the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to MSNBC. His work focuses on domestic and economic policymaking, as well as the political system that’s constantly screwing it up. He’s appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, The McLaughlin Report, the Colbert Report, and many more. He really likes graphs.
No, we didn’t kill the debt ceiling
There’s a lot of confusion this morning about whether the shutdown deal includes an obscure provision that effectively ends the debt-ceiling forever.
The shutdown won’t matter in 2014
A lot of pundits are speculating about how the shutdown will effect 2016. Ignore them.
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