The Ezra Klein Show

Each Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike?

The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate

President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a bad piece of legislation. It includes trillions of...

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Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

Zohran Mamdani created a new anti-establishment playbook — in his use of social video, his focus on...

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A New Middle East?

For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents,...

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Is This America’s Golden Age? A Debate.

Kevin Roberts, Kellyanne Conway, Ben Rhodes and I battled it out a few weeks ago on a stage in Toronto. This...

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How to Beat Trump Back on Trans Rights — and Much Else

President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’ve...

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Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza

It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months.The death count...

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Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

This is one of my favorite episodes of the show in recent memory. It’s a conversation with the author...

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Trump's Foreign Policy, Explained

Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didn’t entirely expect. He seems determined to get...

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Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'

This is a bit of a strange episode. It’s an attempt to explore the difficulty of everything we’re...

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The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP

Steve Bannon famously talked about using “muzzle velocity” as a strategy: doing so much so quickly...

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Trump’s Big Budget Bomb

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legislation...

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How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump

This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up?Jake Tapper and Alex...

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Is Trump Losing? A Debate

Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do...

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‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’

I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools....

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Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism

A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now, the rest of us will likely...

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How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of just 13 Democrats to represent a district that Donald...

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Trump vs. the Dollar

The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world...

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Abundance and the Left

“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month...

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Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics

I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It’s about religion and belief – at this...

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The Very American Roots of Trumpism

After last week’s episode, “The Emergency Is Here,” we got a lot of emails. And the most common...

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The Emergency Is Here

The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a prison...

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Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong

My colleague Tom Friedman thinks we’re screwed.That’s the first thing he told me when recounting...

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Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next

After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that...

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Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’

The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot...

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