- 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.
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- 5 reasons Janet Yellen is likely to run the Fed
- The hard truths of cutting health spending in one tweet
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- ‘The vision people have of a military base with uniformed military marching around, that’s not what the Navy Yard is.’
- This 4 6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll ever need
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- Five reasons Obama should name Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve
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- Paul Krugman’s excellent Twitter strategy
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- The worst argument against the Russia-Syria deal
- McCain: Putin is ‘feeling pretty good today’
- Wonkbook: On Syria, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
- Obama made a very good argument on Syria -- and a very bad one
- President Obama’s full remarks on Syria
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- The five best arguments for striking Syria -- and the best rebuttals
- Wonkbook: Will Russia bail Obama out?
- Obama was right to go to Congress. The fact that he might lose proves it.
- Wonkbook: Seven hard truths for the White House on Syria
- ‘This is probably the first war in history where the attacking party has set out to not destroy the other side’
- Alan Grayson: ‘They have no smoking gun that the attack was ordered by Assad’
- Sen. Chris Coons on the U.S.’s three missions in Syria
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- 10 things that could go very wrong if we attack Syria
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- Why the very bad arguments for intervening in Syria matter
- Wonkbook: House looks ready to kill Syria strike resolution
- Rep. Brad Sherman explains how the White House could win the Syria vote
- Wonkbook: The Obama administration’s brilliant strategy to keep us out of Syria
- ‘They must be really bad if even Hitler wouldn’t use them’
- Most Americans can’t find Syria on a map. So what?
- Wonkbook: A top-of-the-week briefing on Syria
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- Chuck Hagel’s Situation Room fashion is amazing
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- Why Larry Summers was always the favorite for Fed
- A debt-ceiling veteran explains the tricks Republicans could use to avert doomsday
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- Six amazing photos from the 1963 March on Washington
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- Neil Gaiman's perfect, illustrated take on the weirdness of Washington, D.C.
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- Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Offer to teach a man to code and you're kind of a jerk.
- Al Gore explains why he's optimistic about stopping global warming
- This is why controlling health-care costs is almost impossible
- Wonkbook: Top House Republican on immigration says no path to citizenship. Not even for DREAMers.
- Peggy Noonan attacks Obamacare for doing what Peggy Noonan wants Obamacare to do
- Wonkbook: Newt Gingrich explains how the GOP's Obamacare tactics backfired
- This graphic gets the Fed Chair race exactly wrong
- Why Obamacare is good for young people
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- Is Washington in a 'post-policy era'?
- Ross Douthat sums up the state of the Republican Party in one perfect tweet
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- Wonkbook: Two gamechanging NSA stories you must read
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- The roots of Egypt's violence
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- A terrifying look into John Boehner's awful job
- Jack Germond: 'I'm not saying another word until they bring me a martini'
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- Larry Bartels confuses Washington and the economy
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- Don't listen to Slate. Open kitchens are great!
- Four ways to understand the latest Obamacare delay
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- Edward Snowden, patriot
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- 'When Obama says Putin is trapped in Cold War logic, it's true. But so is Obama.'
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- Ezra Kline talks to Don Graham about sale of The Post
- Don Graham explains why he's selling The Washington Post to Jeff Bezos
- I asked three chefs whether they'd consider using lab beef. They were not amused.
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- Some thoughts on The Post being sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos
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- Why hedge funds run by idiots can do well. For awhile.
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- In 2014, Congress gets Obamacare. Here's how they'll pay for it.
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- This graph calls the entire economic recovery into question
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- Obamacare brings new players to health care
- CNBC Fed poll: 50% say Obama should pick Yellen; 2.5% say he should pick Summers
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- Can three technologists, $40 million, and Obamacare change health insurance forever?
- Wonkbook: A dark horse for Fed chair?
- There's no such thing as 'the center'
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- A speech that shows how Obama has changed
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