- 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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- Romney says he paid 13 percent in taxes for the last 10 years. That doesn’t tell us much.
- Paul Ryan: For Medicare cuts before he was against them?
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- The Republican ticket’s big Medicare myth
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- Gary Gorton’s ‘Misunderstanding Financial Crises’
- Mitt Romney’s wrong: You can balance the budget through taxes. But you may not want to.
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- Economists to Romney campaign: That’s not what our research says
- The origins of the policy gap
- Brazil facts
- The massive policy gap between Obama and Romney
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- When Congress fails
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- The Romney who might have been
- ‘Red Ink,’ by David Wessel
- Imagining a better Romney
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- What matters for the election, cont’d
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- The long shadow of Quill Corp. v. North Dakota
- The most important tax increase in ‘Obamacare’
- DC’s record-breaking heat in one graphic
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- Comparing Romney’s and Obama’s jobs plans
- The June jobs report in one word: ‘unchanged’
- Previewing the June jobs report: 100,000 jobs? 125,000?
- The world’s billionaires (in one chart)
- The Romney campaign’s chart fail
- ADP says the private-sector added 176,000 jobs in June. Can we trust it?
- Mitt Romney now says the individual mandate is a tax. Who cares?
- The Affordable Care Act’s big giveaway to stingy red states
- Medicaid matters. The word “tax” doesn’t.
- Health-care law’s Medicaid provision too good to pass up
- No, ‘Obamacare’ isn’t ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)
- The first few years of health reform could be very, very messy
- The Republican turn against universal health insurance
- Mitt Romney’s bogus attack on the Affordable Care Act
- If Romney wins, he can repeal health reform. And he should.
- Why the White House doesn’t do more to sell health-care reform
- For health care, little has changed. Nothing is settled.
- The six funniest reactions to the Supreme Court’s health-care ruling
- The political genius of John Roberts
- In 5-4 decision, Supreme Court rules for the uninsured
- What happens if the mandate falls (in five charts)
- Individual Mandageddon: It’s the next president that matters most
- Four ways the Supreme Court could split the difference on health care
- BuzzFeed and the Internet’s suburbs
- Waiting for SCOTUS
- Are we headed toward another court-packing crisis?
- Poll: Republicans hate ‘Obamacare,’ but like most of what it does
- The irony of the individual mandate
- George Washington’s individual mandates
- What we know about how the Supreme Court will rule on health care: Nothing.
- How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the mandate
- Let’s say the Affordable Care Act is overturned: What happens next?
- How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the mandate
- 11 facts about the Affordable Care Act
- Can Mario Monti save Italy — and the euro?
- The billionaires list
- Hypocritic Oath
- Mitt Romney’s immigration plan: The full text
- Politicians don’t take questions. Can you blame them?
- There’s too much trust in the Senate
- Is Europe trying to kick Greece out?
- Site changes
- The ‘Robin Hood of sovereign debt’
- Of course the Supreme Court is political
- Of course the Supreme Court is political
- The can’ts and the won’ts #wonkbook
- The kids behind the DREAM Act
- The scary take on Ben Bernanke’s remarks
- The Bloomberg poll, reconsidered
- Republicans don’t always oppose the federal welfare state
- Republicans don’t always oppose the federal welfare state
- Unemployment is at 8.2 percent and the Fed is tightening
- Pet peeve
- Pet peeve
- WWBBD — What will Ben Bernanke do? #Wonkbook
- WWBBD — What will Beb Bernanke Do? #Wonkbook
- Grover Norquist’s pledge to increase spending, deficits
- Grover Norquist’s pledge to increase spending, deficits
- Do Democrats have their own individual mandate?
- Do Democrats have their own individual mandate?
- The individual mandate: What happened?
- The president runs foreign policy because Congress lets him
- The individual mandate: What happened?
- The individual mandate: What happened?
- Euro zone whack-a-mole #wonkbook
- DREAMing of bipartisanship
- DREAMing of bipartisanship
- Counterfactual of the day
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- The euro survived Greece's election. Now what? #wonkbook
- Redaction action
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- Why grads should choose a start-up over Wall Street
- Is Obama ‘anti-free enterprise’?
- Ryan Lizza: ‘It’s created a crisis for political journalism.’
- The scariest sentence I’ve read today #wonkbook
- Obama: Romney’s policies are the incumbent
- Obama’s policies: Working fairly well in Ohio
- A theory on the Obama campaign’s messaging problems
- It’s the state of the country, stupid #wonkbook
- Romney’s health care plan — or lack thereof
- The deregulatory racket
- The occupational licensing racket #wonkbook
- The president will do what Congress lets him do
- Obama’s business record, cont’d
- Waiting for SCOTUS #wonkbook
- When it comes to explaining policy, politician Jindal knows better. Or should.
- Public-sector austerity in one graph
- For such an anti-business president, Obama’s got a pretty pro-business record
- It's the economy, dummkopf #wonkbook
- The myth of the presidential mandate
- Gaffes don’t matter
- Obama’s press conference: The public sector isn’t fine
- The myth of the presidential mandate
- A Chinese Marshall plan? #wonkbook
- Rand Paul: Republicans have compromised enough
- Nate Silver: Obama odds of winning are ’just over 60 percent’
- Ben Bernanke and Zhou Xiaochuan could save the euro
- Poll: 68% of Americans want the court to overturn all or part of health care
- Health reform: What if Obama hadn’t tried it?
- Mario Draghi: The banker holding Europe hostage #wonkbook
- Wisconsin recall: What happens if unions continue to decline?
- Spending on health care vs. spending on health, cont’d
- Europe: Is everything going exactly according to plan?
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- Wisconsin recall shows labor isn't coming back. So what's next? #wonkbook
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