Ezra Klein Archive: Barack Obama
Being president seems unpleasant
My strong hunch is that the post-9/11 security apparatus surrounding the president of the United States of America and his family is vastly more annoying and disruptive than anything that happens when I go to an airport.
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Ezra Klein
| November 23, 2010; 2:42 PM ET |
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Barack Obama, President
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Economic policy affects the economy
Though I'm glad to see the president of the United States acknowledging that elections are primarily driven by economic factors, it's weird that he thinks this constitutes a defense of his administration: President Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday...
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Dylan Matthews
| November 8, 2010; 9:50 AM ET |
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Should we get rid of the corporate income tax?
The Obama administration is gearing up to overhaul the corporate income tax by lowering rates but cracking down on loopholes that allow offshore sheltering of profits. Megan McArdle argues that liberals should want to scrap the tax altogether, and tax the people corporate profits go to, rather than the corporations themselves:
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Dylan Matthews
| October 28, 2010; 4:15 PM ET |
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Are policy concessions worth it?
By Dylan Matthews Grist's David Roberts argues that a maximalist Democratic agenda, with few concessions to Republicans or centrist Democrats, would be popular: Republicans have quite cannily figured out how to manipulate voters' heuristics. No matter what Democrats do or...
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Washington Post editor
| April 1, 2010; 11:30 AM ET |
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Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats
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Waiting for Barack
Every Hill office I've spoken to in the past week has had the same complaint. "Where," they ask, "is the White House?" There's been no clear message on the way forward for health-care reform. No clear articulation of preferences. No...
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Ezra Klein
| January 27, 2010; 10:48 AM ET |
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How race affects attitudes towards Obama, health care
On the one hand, you don't want to make too much of this sort of thing. On the other hand, you don't want to totally ignore it, either: According to a recent study by researchers from Stanford and the...
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Ezra Klein
| January 11, 2010; 12:02 PM ET |
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Barack Obama, Political Science, Polls
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