The Ezra Klein Show

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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? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.

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Hasan Piker Has Joined the Party E

2026-11-13 · 1 hr 26 min

“I’m pragmatic,” Hasan Piker says, when it comes to how Democrats wield power. Our last episode of the show featured a more centrist perspective on what Democrats should learn from their midterm triumph and what they…
The Path to a Democratic Supermajority

2026-11-10 · 55 min

Democrats are on track to have more power in the next Congress than they’ve had since 2009. How can they navigate the divides in a party that now stretches from Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan to Adam Hamilton in Kansas? How…
How the Democrats Did It

2026-11-07 · 1 hr 7 min

President Trump is primarily responsible for the Republican shellacking on Tuesday. But to get over the finish line in so many places — across the Midwest and deep into the South – Democrats had to run the right…
The End of Trumpism

2026-11-04 · 50 min

Tuesday night, a blue tsunami crashed across the political map. Democrats won control of the House and the Senate with room to spare, flipping seats in states that once seemed unimaginable: South Carolina, Kansas,…
Elon Musk’s Endgame

2026-10-30 · 1 hr 11 min

Ahead of the midterm elections, Elon Musk has become the single largest campaign donor in any election cycle, giving about $450 million to Republicans. It is just a fraction of a percent of his near-trillion-dollar net…
Nate Silver Predicts a ‘Momentous’ Midterm E

2026-10-27 · 55 min

“If the election goes roughly as the polls say it will go, then in some ways it would mark the end of the Trump era,” Nate Silver told me. The midterms are a week away, and it looks entirely possible that Democrats will…
What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

2026-10-23 · 1 hr 8 min

Sarah Longwell has probably conducted more focus groups with Trump voters than anyone else in America — hundreds of them, starting in Trump’s first term. So she has a treasure trove of qualitative evidence of how voters…
Trumpism Is Backfiring E

2026-10-20 · 1 hr 17 min

If you want to understand the ruins of President Trump’s foreign policy, look no further than Canada. Trump tried to strong-arm America’s trading partner and closest ally with punishing tariffs and threats of becoming…
Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate. E

2026-10-16 · 1 hr 7 min

The gargantuan bet on the future of A.I. is driving the U.S. stock market and economic growth. And the building of data centers is sucking up so many construction resources, it’s crowding out the construction of homes.…
Is It a Relationship if No One’s on the Other Side? E

2026-10-14 · 1 hr 15 min

Roughly half of American adults are using chatbots. Nearly one in five U.S. adults has chatted with an A.I. that simulates a romantic partner. And some children now struggle to distinguish between talking to chatbots…

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Oldest episode in feed: 01/2021 · over 5 years
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