The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show

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 and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio...

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What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?

Jun 9, 2026

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The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men

Jun 5, 2026

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Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World

Jun 2, 2026

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Does Trump Want to Lose the Midterms?

May 29, 2026

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Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion

May 26, 2026

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Is It Time to Break the Two-Party System?

May 19, 2026

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This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential

May 15, 2026

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I Have Some Questions for the Democrats Who Want to Run California

May 12, 2026

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GLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness

May 8, 2026

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The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism

May 5, 2026

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What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’

Apr 28, 2026

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Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

Apr 24, 2026

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Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?

Apr 21, 2026

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Our Tax System Should Make You Furious

Apr 17, 2026

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Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

Apr 14, 2026

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Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War

Apr 10, 2026

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Why Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand

Apr 3, 2026

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Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness

Mar 31, 2026

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Will Iran Break Trumpism?

Mar 27, 2026

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How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?

Mar 24, 2026

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We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now

Mar 20, 2026

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What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran

Mar 14, 2026

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I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War

Mar 10, 2026

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Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic

Mar 6, 2026

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The Great Lie of War

Mar 3, 2026

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Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union

Feb 25, 2026

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How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

Feb 24, 2026

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Who Has the Power in Trump's White House?

Feb 20, 2026

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The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power

Feb 13, 2026

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George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin

Feb 10, 2026

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

Feb 6, 2026

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Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.

Feb 3, 2026

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How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze

Jan 30, 2026

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The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years

Jan 27, 2026

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Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going

Jan 23, 2026

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Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?

Jan 16, 2026

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Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

Jan 13, 2026

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Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’

Jan 10, 2026

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What Trump Wants in Venezuela

Jan 6, 2026

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This Question Can Change Your Life

Jan 2, 2026

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‘This Is Something That Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’

Dec 23, 2025

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The Opinions: Bernie Sanders and Ruben Gallego

Dec 19, 2025

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The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money

Dec 16, 2025

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Best Of: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones

Dec 12, 2025

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The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom

Dec 10, 2025

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What I Learned in 2025

Dec 5, 2025

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Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger

Dec 2, 2025

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Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives

Nov 25, 2025

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Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right

Nov 21, 2025

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Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever

Nov 18, 2025

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