Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein ( born May 9, 1984 in Irvine, California) is an American political columnist.

Life and work

Klein grew up as the son of a professor of mathematics at Irvine in California. After attending the University High School in his hometown, he studied political science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, before he moved to the University of California at Los Angeles, which he left with a bachelor's degree in 2005.

After Klein had already been written since 2003 with increasing success various blogs he was hired by the Washington Post as a blogger for their online edition, 2007. Finally, since 2009, he also writes as a permanent commentator opinion pieces on political and economic issues for the print edition of the prestigious daily newspaper. In 2011, Klein's blog was in the online edition of the Post, the most widely read newspaper in the offer. In the same year he was listed by GQ as one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington DC, while as one of the 25 best blogs Time magazine led his blog in a ranking in 2011 on economic issues. The Hillman Foundation and the magazine The Week Small voted again in 2010 for " Blogger of the Year".

Since 2009, Klein appears regularly in broadcasts of the U.S. news channel MSNBC as a guest, as an expert to analyze current political events and issues or to comment. Since 2011, Klein has also various programs in the program of MSNBC in the absence of the regular presenter's deputy, presented as guest moderator. He has moderated some Editions of The Rachel Maddow Show and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, among others.

In addition to his work for the Washington Post, for MSNBC and various Internet activities Small controls since 2011 columns at Bloomberg View.

Klein, who was raised Jewish and now describes as an agnostic, is married to Annie Lowrey, who works as a financial journalist for The New York Times.