Gender, Choice, and Immutability

A fascinating conversation between two queer journalists.

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Objective Journalism in an Objectively Uneven Contest

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

What Should Israel Do if Not This?

When the intellectually correct answer isn’t politically possible.

Israelis Divided on Ground Offensive

A poll on Israeli support.

‘From the River to the Sea’

When the obvious is controversial.

Ezra Klein on Israel and Hamas

The best statement on the complexity of the Israel-Hamas conflict that I have heard/read.

Culture and Our Brains

Our surroundings quite literally change how we see the world.

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Why We’re Getting Worse At Construction

Affluence comes with a cost.

GOP Behavior

Ezra Klein has some thought on the Republican Party.

Matt Yglesias’ Return to His Roots

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

Blake Hounshell, 1978-2023

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Districting and the 2022 House Results

The lines aren’t everything, but they need more attention than they get.

Calcified Democracy

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

Kevin Drum’s 20th Blogiversary

One of the OG blog pundits has reached a big milestone.

The January 6 Hearings Didn’t Change Entrenched Opinion

Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?

Judicial Supremacy vs Popular Constitutionalism

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

Replacing Biden in 2024?

From the Cliché File.

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Why America Can’t Build

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Maximal Angst Despite Minimal Cause

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Podcast Recommendation (Plus: More on US Democracy)

Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).

US Inflation at 40-Year High

Can the Misery Index be far behind?

Biden Fighting the Last War

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

Debt Ceiling Thoughts

American exceptionalism at its worst. (Plus some history!).

The Consequences of Partisanship

Politics is not a game.

Vaccines v. Monoclonal Antibodies

The difference is politics, not reason.

Who Decides American History?

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

The Radicalization of Ross Douthat

An interesting podcast conversation.

America’s Poverty Dependence

Our love for cheap goods and services requires lots of people willing to work for very little.

Obama on the State of American Politics

A podcast recommendation.

Sullivan on Biden (and a Discussion of Fiscal Policy)

On fiscal policy and historical comparisons.

Unskilled? No Problem!

Are we thinking about job training all wrong?

Podcast Recommendation

The Ezra Klein show on the “infrastructure” bill.

Did the Boomers Ruin America?

An interesting but uneven debate.

The Consolidation of Journalism

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Performative Leadership

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

Matt Yglesias Leaving Vox for Substack

A trend continues.

The Language of Sexual Violence

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

The Hidden Left-Liberal Divide

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Why Democrats Have to Play By Different Rules

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Hillary Clinton Has A Theory To Explain Why White Married Women Didn’t Vote For Her

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

The Steady Decline of News

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

Rush Limbaugh Really Doesn’t Get Donald Trump

Chris Cillizza thinks “Rush Limbaugh totally gets Donald Trump.” I disagree.

Hillary Clinton Running Away with the Race

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Republicans Would Be More Credible On Immigration If They Had A Plan Of Their Own

The fact that Republicans lack anything approaching a coherent immigration plan makes it hard to take their criticism of the President seriously.

Mind-Blowing Maps

Trending on Twitter this morning is a collection of infographics compiled by Ezra Klein under the heading “22 maps and charts that will surprise you.”

10 Drinks a Day is a Lot of Drinks!

The Ezra Klein-less Wonkblog makes us feel good about our drinking habits.

‘Open and Free’ Compared to What?

The “open and free” Internet is an ideal type, not a myth.

Where’s The Outrage Over The Outrage?

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?