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Ezra Klein
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2022
Elon Musk got Twitter because he gets Twitter
Betting against Musk has made fools of many in recent years. So if anyone can, he has as good a chance as any to fix what ails Twitter.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2014
Future looks dull from Washington
Absent an event that upends the country, Washington seems likely to be a lot less important over the next few years than it was over the past few years.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2014
Pining for Lyndon Johnson, Americans got Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie¡¯s recent scandals won¡¯t impress anyone who has read of the political arm-twisting shenanigans conducted a half-century ago by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 5, 2013
¡®Obamacare¡¯ exchanges have trouble with success
¡°We¡¯re building a complicated piece of technology,¡± U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said on the first day of the new Affordable Care Act ¡ª or ¡°Obamacare,¡± as it is otherwise known ¡ª ¡°and hopefully you¡¯ll give us the same slack you give Apple.¡±
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 23, 2013
Obama¡¯s toughest campaign yet: selling health care reform
Deep inside the White House, in a bare room that the chief of staff uses for meetings, David Simas is still thinking about turnout.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 10, 2013
Being alone can kill you, even if you like it
Feeling lonely won¡¯t kill you. But actually being alone might.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2013
Soul of GOP depends on immigration reform
U.S. Republicans have an existential reason to support immigration reform. The last thing Barack Obama should do now is give them cause to oppose it.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2012
The strongest case against Obama¡¯s economic policy
The strongest case against the Obama administration¡¯s economic policy goes something like this:
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2011
The dark legacy of North Korea¡¯s ruling elite
Satellite images of Asia at night are eerily beautiful, illuminated as they are by hundreds and thousands of bursts of light. That light is what civilization looks like from space. It¡¯s the glow of fluorescent bulbs in office buildings and warm lamps in homes and bright runways crisscrossing airports....
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2011
Gingrich, Romney, Obama share perspectives
According to the polls and the pundits, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are the two front-runners for the Republican nomination for president. That means both of them will spend the next few weeks trying to show that they are more competent, conservative and generally Reagan-like than the other.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2011
Texas governor pushes EU-style federalism
You wouldn¡¯t think that the governor of Texas, the most conservative of the viable candidates in the Republican presidential field, would want to make the United States more like Europe. Unless, of course, you have read Rick Perry¡¯s book.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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