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?
When Is It Genocide?
In December 2023, when South Africa accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice,...
EscucharMahmoud Khalil Tells His Story
Mahmoud Khalil was a leader in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests. In March, he was arrested...
EscucharBehind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting an...
EscucharBest Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’
“It’s so insidious, people don’t realize it,” Barbara Kingsolver told me, describing the prejudice...
EscucharIs Decarbonization Dead?
Biden passed the most ambitious climate legislation in American history. Trump just shredded it. What...
EscucharWhy American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That consensus, roughly,...
EscucharWhy Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
MAGA has been infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that’s because the conspiracy theories...
EscucharWhy Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?
I have had a meditation practice for about 15 years now. I started hoping it would calm me down, and...
EscucharHow the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are both proof of how the ability to capture attention is power. And...
EscucharThe Disaster That Just Passed the Senate
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a bad piece of legislation. It includes trillions of...
EscucharMamdani, 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...
EscucharA New Middle East?
For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents,...
EscucharIs 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...
EscucharHow to Beat Trump Back on Trans Rights — and Much Else
President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’ve...
EscucharEhud 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...
EscucharBest 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...
EscucharTrump's Foreign Policy, Explained
Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didn’t entirely expect. He seems determined to get...
EscucharOur 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...
EscucharThe Growing Scandal of $TRUMP
Steve Bannon famously talked about using “muzzle velocity” as a strategy: doing so much so quickly...
EscucharTrump’s Big Budget Bomb
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legislation...
EscucharHow 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...
EscucharIs Trump Losing? A Debate
Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do...
Escuchar‘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....
EscucharBest 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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