Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
My colleague Tom Friedman thinks we’re screwed.That’s the first thing he told me when recounting...
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
Fri, 11 Apr 2025
After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that ...
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’
Sat, 5 Apr 2025
The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot ...
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
Tue, 1 Apr 2025
There’s something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states — includin...
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?
Tue, 25 Mar 2025
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more eff...
The Origins of Abundance
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
To mark the release of our new book “Abundance,” my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podca...
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
After the last election, there were all kinds of theories about where Democrats went wrong. But now,...
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Fri, 14 Mar 2025
It’s hard to understand the economic logic of President Trump’s tariffs. In our last episode, we...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work
Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Wall Street thought Donald Trump was bluffing about his tariff plans. The stock market rallied after...
There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
Sun, 9 Mar 2025
Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will w...
This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty Test
Wed, 5 Mar 2025
The economy has started blinking red. President Trump’s tariffs have been roiling markets. Consume...
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
Tue, 4 Mar 2025
Artificial general intelligence — an A.I. system that can beat humans at almost any cognitive task...
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
Sat, 1 Mar 2025
If you’re looking for a single-sentence summation of the change in America’s foreign policy unde...
A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
In 2016, when Donald Trump won the first time, a little-known book became an unexpected phenomenon. ...
A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
After the elections, I started asking congressional Democrats the same question: If the elections ha...
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours
Sun, 16 Feb 2025
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakl...
What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
We are moving into the next phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. Phase 1 was the blitz of executive...
What Elon Musk Wants
Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Elon Musk has been on a slash-and-burn tear through the federal government — gaining access to I.T...
The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
Wed, 5 Feb 2025
There are two pieces to this episode. First, a tour of what Donald Trump has done — and what he ha...
Don't Believe Him
Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very ...
MAGA’s Big Tech Divide
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
MAGA has long been hostile to Big Tech. So now that Big Tech is shifting rightward, what does that m...
Let’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
Sat, 25 Jan 2025
On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed a record 26 executive orders. Some of...
So That's What 'Make America Great Again' Means
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
There’s a quieter transition happening beneath the pageantry of this week’s inaugural events —...
Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Trump is a master at wielding attention. He’s been owning news cycles and squatting in Americans’...
Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
Joe Biden wanted to show Americans that there was a better path than Trumpism. He worked to build a ...
Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
The preview we’ve had into Donald Trump’s second administration already feels, by American stand...
Burned Out? Start Here.
Tue, 7 Jan 2025
I like to begin each year with an episode about something I’m working through more personally. And...
Best Of: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
I have a tendency to end the year feeling pretty worn out. And that’s partly because I struggle to...
What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
There’s a lot to process as 2024 draws to a close. In our end-of-year Ask Me Anything, the superv...
Yes, Biden’s Green Future Can Still Happen Under Trump
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
In 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly ...
‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because...
Best Of: How TV, Twitter and TikTok Remade Our Politics
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
This election felt like the peak of the TV-ification of politics. There’s Trump, of course, who ro...
Best Of: Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
Fri, 6 Dec 2024
It was possible to see Donald Trump’s first election victory as some kind of fluke. But after the ...
It's the Corruption, Stupid
Tue, 3 Dec 2024
Right after the election, I talked about how the results reminded me of 2004. George W. Bush won re-...
Would Bernie Have Won?
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
There are a lot of different opinions about how the Democratic Party should rebuild after the blow o...
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
The core conflict in our politics right now is over institutions. Democrats defend them, while Repub...
Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
I’ve been watching since the election to see what timeline we’re in. And Donald Trump’s first ...
About the Coming Paywall
Wed, 2 Oct 2024
In a couple weeks, the archives of our show will only be available to subscribers. Here’s why that...
Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show
Wed, 13 Jan 2021
Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. H...