Vox’s “Future Perfect” wants to explain it all

Get the Full StoryWe wax philosophical with Ezra Klein about his website’s new vertical, which aims to take a macro view in an ever-shrinking news cycle.

For years, Vox cofounder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein had noticed a blind spot in his coverage. Most of the journalism, he tells me, was “very focused on what’s new.” Or not even what’s new, but the minutiae controlling the narrative: what people are currently in conflict about; what others are tweeting about. Klein felt some of the reportage was trapped in its own ephemera–lost in what seemed like only a few seconds, until the next supposedly big event came along and changed our understanding of what happened prior.Read Full Story

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