Ezra Klein Archive: Articles
Column: How unions can be more than a legacy institution
It looks increasingly likely that organized labor will manage to cheat death in Wisconsin. But where does that leave unions? Merely near death, that's where. Only 7 percent of private-sector workers are unionized, down from about 25 percent in the...
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| March 1, 2011; 9:37 AM ET |
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Column: Wisconsin is about power, not money
You've probably heard politicians fret that state governments - or, worse, the federal government - will default on their debts. House Speaker John A. Boehner called the prospect of a federal default "a financial disaster not only for our country,...
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| February 22, 2011; 8:30 AM ET |
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The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army
American politics is one long argument about what government should or shouldn’t be doing, and how it should or shouldn’t be doing it. It’s rare that we step back, take in the larger picture and ask what it is...
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| February 14, 2011; 10:44 AM ET |
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Column: The problem with competitiveness -- and with Canada
Imagine if President Obama took the podium Tuesday night and said: "Technology has made competition easier and fiercer than ever before. Countries around the world are upping their game and giving their workers and companies every advantage possible. But that...
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| January 25, 2011; 9:18 AM ET |
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Column: Six lessons from the tax deal
In Washington, the temperature dipped into the 20s this week, which is evidently the point when hell freezes over: President Obama reached an agreement on the Bush tax cuts with the Republican Senate leader who said "the single most...
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| December 10, 2010; 1:00 PM ET |
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Column: Lawmakers hate fundraising, but not as much as they hate campaign-finance reform
When all is said and done, the 2010 elections will have cost more than $2 billion, or even twice that amount, by some estimates. Those are staggering sums, leading some observers, such as Yahoo's Daniel Gross, to wonder whether,...
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| November 1, 2010; 2:21 PM ET |
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