Ezra Klein

We were on track for a really, really great year and fuel prices have, you know, put us back hundreds of millions of dollars.

Our Lost and Found is currently filled with pants.

I don't know, I've never seen this happen.

How did Graham Plattner, a political unknown a year ago, come from nowhere to so thoroughly dominate the primary that Janet Mills, the sitting governor of Maine, dropped out or suspended her campaign, I should say, and didn't even come back in as Plattner was rocked by even more scandals?

The answer is that he had the most important political resource right now, and she was not able to grab any of it.

That resource is attention.

It's a constant theme now for me on the show, that you need to see attention as its own substrate of American politics.

And attention is working in really unusual ways this year.

In the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, where Abdul El-Sayed is now in the lead.

Who here believes in Medicare for All?

And who believes it's time to abolish ICE?

And who believes we got to get money out of politics and in your pocket?

In Texas, where James Tallarico, another person people hadn't really heard of a couple of years ago, is now the Democratic nominee for Senate.

One thing is clear today.

We're about to take back Texas.

In Los Angeles, where we actually saw it fail in the mayoral candidacy of Spencer Pratt.

What's happening with John Ossoff and the sudden rise in interest in what he's doing?

All of it has a lot of lessons, I think, for how attention is working right now in American politics.

To help me unpack them, I want to have on my favorite person to talk about this particular topic with.

Our friend Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes, and author of the great book on attention in the modern moment, The Siren's Call, How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.