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?
A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
After the elections, I started asking congressional Democrats the same question: If the elections had...
EscucharThe Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected]...
EscucharWhat if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?
We are moving into the next phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. Phase 1 was the blitz of executive...
EscucharWhat Elon Musk Wants
Elon Musk has been on a slash-and-burn tear through the federal government — gaining access to I.T....
EscucharThe Breaking of the Constitutional Order
There are two pieces to this episode. First, a tour of what Donald Trump has done — and what he has...
EscucharDon't Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very...
EscucharMAGA’s Big Tech Divide
MAGA has long been hostile to Big Tech. So now that Big Tech is shifting rightward, what does that mean...
EscucharLet’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed a record 26 executive orders. Some of...
EscucharThe New Rules of the Trump Era
There’s a quieter transition happening beneath the pageantry of this week’s inaugural events —...
EscucharAttention Is Power
Trump is a master at wielding attention. He’s been owning news cycles and squatting in Americans’...
EscucharBiden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?
Joe Biden wanted to show Americans that there was a better path than Trumpism. He worked to build a...
EscucharTrump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
The preview we’ve had into Donald Trump’s second administration already feels, by American standards,...
EscucharBurned Out? Start Here.
I like to begin each year with an episode about something I’m working through more personally. And...
EscucharBest Of: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
I have a tendency to end the year feeling pretty worn out. And that’s partly because I struggle to...
EscucharWhat I’m Thinking at the End of 2024
There’s a lot to process as 2024 draws to a close. In our end-of-year Ask Me Anything, the supervising...
EscucharYes, Biden’s Green Future Can Still Happen Under Trump
In 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly...
Escuchar‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because...
EscucharBest Of: How TV, Twitter and TikTok Remade Our Politics
This election felt like the peak of the TV-ification of politics. There’s Trump, of course, who rose...
EscucharYou Had a Lot of Questions About the Election
This is our first bonus content of the paywall era, a subscriber-only, election-themed “ask me anything.”...
EscucharBest Of: Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
It was possible to see Donald Trump’s first election victory as some kind of fluke. But after the...
EscucharRahm Emanuel's Plan for a Democratic Comeback in 2026
Right after the election, I talked about how the results reminded me of 2004. George W. Bush won re-election...
EscucharWould Bernie Have Won?
There are a lot of different opinions about how the Democratic Party should rebuild after the blow of...
EscucharIn This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
The core conflict in our politics right now is over institutions. Democrats defend them, while Republicans...
EscucharTrump Kicks Down the Guardrails
I’ve been watching since the election to see what timeline we’re in. And Donald Trump’s first...
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