Ezra Klein (born May 9 1984) is a writing fellow for the American Prospect and an American liberal political blogger.
Klein was born in Irvine, Orange County, California to mathematics professor Abel Klein and artist Jacqueline Klein. He is named after Project Ezra, a nonprofit on New York's Lower East Side that delivers food and social services to the elderly. [1] He has an older brother and younger sister. Klein attended University High School in Irvine, California, where he claims to have earned a 2.2 GPA while attending. He enrolled at UC Santa Cruz in fall of 2002 and transferred to UCLA in the fall of 2004. He graduated one year early after completing a summer term in 2005 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Career background
Klein started his first blog Ezra K in February of 2003. He soon joined with Matt Singer, and the name was changed to "Klein/Singer: Political Consulting on the Cheap". In June of 2003, he moved to the blog Not Geniuses along with Matt Singer and Joe Rospars. Following "Not Geniuses", Klein partnered with Jesse Taylor at Pandagon. This partnership helped Klein gain even more visibility, leading to his eventual founding of his current blog Ezra Klein. Besides his online contributions, Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003, and interned for the Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C. in 2004. His work has appeared in the Gadflyer, Washington Monthly, LA Weekly, American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and Slate Magazine. Klein has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Hardball with Chris Matthews and numerous NPR programs. He also has appeared on Bloggingheads.TV His writing interests include health policy, the labor movement, and electoral politics.
