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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein

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    Latest articles by Ezra Klein

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    Stop making fun of Christie for being fatStop making fun of Christie for being fat
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    Chris Christie has a reputation as a bit of a bully. But anyone watching the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend saw him getting bullied.

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    America’s incarceration rate is 3.5 times Mexico’sAmerica’s incarceration rate is 3.5 times Mexico’s
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    The numbers behind America’s prison state are horrifying.

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    This map shows America’s real unemployment problemThis map shows America’s real unemployment problem
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    There are parts of America still in a depression

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    A good jobs report, but still a bad labor marketA good jobs report, but still a bad labor market
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    10 million remain jobless.

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    Health care has added 63,700 jobs this yearHealth care has added 63,700 jobs this year
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    That’s a lot of health-care jobs.

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    The bad news on race in Obama’s AmericaThe bad news on race in Obama’s America
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    Republicans and Democrats are more divided on race today than in 1985.

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    Obamacare’s problem with belief echoesObamacare’s problem with belief echoes
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    Here’s why Americans believe two things about Obamacare enrollment that can’t both be true.

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    The new Republican health plan: FauxbamacareThe new Republican health plan: Fauxbamacare
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    Scott Brown explained his Obamacare replacement. Surprise! It’s Obamacare.

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    Why presidential leadership can’t solve gridlockWhy presidential leadership can’t solve gridlock
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    Polarization, gridlock, debt-ceiling crises, government shutdowns, filibusters — nobody would say this is a post-partisan era of cooperation. But how did it get this way? Ezra Klein talks with Frances Lee, Professor of American Politics at UMD.

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    Imagine surviving Ebola only to be shunnedImagine surviving Ebola only to be shunned
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    “This disease is worse than [Ebola’s] fever.”

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