Ezra Klein Archive: Interviews
Grover Norquist: ‘The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit’
Grover Norquist is the president of Americans for Tax Reform and one of the most influential conservative activists in the country. There has been a series of reports recently that he’s fighting to keep Republicans from striking a “grand bargain”...
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| March 9, 2011; 5:26 PM ET |
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Andy Stern: 'It may not end beautifully in Wisconsin.'
Last year, Andy Stern retired as the president of SEIU, the service employees union that he'd built into a 2.2 million member heavyweight. During his tenure, Stern was known -- and sometimes reviled -- for his efforts to reform...
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| February 24, 2011; 8:21 AM ET |
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Jamie Galbraith: 'The government is not, by any means, a pure representative of the working population.'
The events in Wisconsin are bringing the idea of "countervailing powers" back into the discussion. The concept comes by way of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who was trying to understand an economy where the competition was not between lots of...
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| February 23, 2011; 12:00 PM ET |
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Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont
Peter Shumlin, the newly elected governor of Vermont, has a plan for health-care reform: Rather than repeal it, he wants to supercharge it. His state will set up an exchange, and then, as soon as possible, apply for a...
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| February 10, 2011; 11:55 AM ET |
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An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate
In 1991, economist Mark Pauly was the lead author of a Health Affairs paper attempting to persuade President George H.W. Bush and his administration to adopt a universal health-care proposal that would keep the government from eventually taking over the...
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| February 1, 2011; 3:20 PM ET |
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Sen. Jeff Merkley: 'This isn't a question of filibuster or no filibuster'
Senate Democrats are moving toward some version of filibuster reform. And one of the primary agitators behind that project has been Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.). It's his reform proposal -- a modest document that doesn't end the filibuster so...
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| December 23, 2010; 4:01 PM ET |
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