Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
01 Aug 2025
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Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting a...
Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’
29 Jul 2025
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“It’s so insidious, people don’t realize it,” Barbara Kingsolver told me, describing the pre...
Is Decarbonization Dead?
25 Jul 2025
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Biden passed the most ambitious climate legislation in American history. Trump just shredded it. Wha...
Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
23 Jul 2025
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The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That consensus, r...
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
17 Jul 2025
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MAGA has been infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that’s because the conspiracy theorie...
Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?
Fri, 11 Jul
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I have had a meditation practice for about 15 years now. I started hoping it would calm me down, and...
How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us
Tue, 8 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are both proof of how the ability to capture attention is power. And...
The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate
Wed, 2 Jul
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President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a bad piece of legislation. It includes trillions o...
Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics
Sat, 28 Jun
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Zohran Mamdani created a new anti-establishment playbook — in his use of social video, his focus o...
A New Middle East?
Wed, 25 Jun
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For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents, ...
Is This America’s Golden Age? A Debate.
Fri, 20 Jun
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Kevin Roberts, Kellyanne Conway, Ben Rhodes and I battled it out a few weeks ago on a stage in Toron...
Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’...
Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza
Wed, 11 Jun
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It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months.The death cou...
Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Fri, 6 Jun
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This is one of my favorite episodes of the show in recent memory. It’s a conversation with the aut...
The Emergent Trump Doctrine
Tue, 3 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didn’t entirely expect. He seems determined to g...
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
Fri, 30 May
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This is a bit of a strange episode. It’s an attempt to explore the difficulty of everything we’r...
The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP
Wed, 28 May
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Steve Bannon famously talked about using “muzzle velocity” as a strategy: doing so much so quick...
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
Fri, 23 May
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Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legisla...
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
Wed, 21 May
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This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up?Jake Tapper and Al...
Is Trump Losing? A Debate
Fri, 16 May
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Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to d...
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
Tue, 13 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for sc...
Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism
Fri, 9 May
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A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now, the rest of us will like...
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
Tue, 6 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of just 13 Democrats to represent a district that Dona...
Trump vs. the Dollar
Fri, 2 May
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The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the wo...
Abundance and the Left
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a mont...
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
Fri, 25 Apr
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I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It’s about religion and belief – at th...
The Very American Roots of Trumpism
Wed, 23 Apr
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After last week’s episode, “The Emergency Is Here,” we got a lot of emails. And the most commo...
The Emergency Is Here
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a p...
Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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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 09:00:00 +0000
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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 09:00:00 +0000
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The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more eff...
The Origins of Abundance
Fri, 21 Mar
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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 09:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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The preview we’ve had into Donald Trump’s second administration already feels, by American stand...
Burned Out? Start Here.
Tue, 7 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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 10:00:00 +0000
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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
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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
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Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. H...