- 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.
Israel and Switzerland don't heart guns
Janet Rosenbaum, who's studied gun laws in Israel and Switzerland, busts the "widespread misunderstanding that Israel and Switzerland promote gun ownership."
Twelve facts about mass shootings
What follows isn't an agenda, but a set of facts to inform a dialogue we desperately need to have.
Towards better Medicare cuts
For reasons of confusion and expediency, the Republicans in the budget are focusing on some very crude cuts to medicare. So I asked some Republicans health-care experts to suggest better ones.
Obama's tax hike is pretty small
Doing nothing: $5.4 trillion. Passing Simpson-Bowles: $2.6 trillion. Passing Obama's tax plan: $1.6 trillion. In context, Obama's tax hike just isn't that large.
- GRAPH: So much economics, so few economists
- Poll: Actual Republicans don't want to cut or tax anything
- The GOP's problem: The cuts they want aren't the cuts they can get
- The misleading framing of 'right-to-work'
- Wonkbook: Fiscal cliff offers and counteroffers
- The GOP's dangerous debt-ceiling gamble
- Wonkbook: Should we raise the Medicare age?
- Where things really stand in the fiscal cliff negotiations
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