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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 consciousne...
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What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran
The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in...
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War
I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Ir...
Who Should Control A.I.?
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declar...
Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy
Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart.
On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Ira...
Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he de...
How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are l...
Inside Trump’s ‘Royal Court’
It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have...
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and tex...
George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”
Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him b...
Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It
Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.
What exactly went wrong...
Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningful...
How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze
The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?
I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era...
The Week the World Admitted the Truth About America
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...
The Staggering Scale of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.
Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration e...
Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?
We are one year into Trump’s second term. And it feels like so much has happened – more than the human mind, or the country, can absorb. But how much...
Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
State Representative James Talarico of Texas might have been our most requested guest last year. And he seemed to come out of nowhere.
Talarico...
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
The shocking events of January have sent a message: America works differently now.
M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of boo...
What Trump Wants in Venezuela
What is America doing in Venezuela?
On Jan. 3, the Trump administration launched an operation that ended with the capture of President Nicolás M...
This Question Can Change Your Life
I like to start the year with a few episodes on things I’m personally working on. Not resolutions, exactly. More like intentions. Or, even better, pra...
The Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025
This is the strangest economy I’ve seen in my lifetime. If you just looked at the macro data — the jobs numbers, G.D.P., the stock market — things loo...
The Opinions: Bernie Sanders and Ruben Gallego
What will America’s story be after President Trump? My colleague David Leonhardt did a great series on that question this year, talking to a number of...
What Does It Mean to Give Well?
“This lightbulb went off that almost no one was asking these questions.”
In 2006, Elie Hassenfeld and a few of his friends pooled some money the...
Best Of: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones
This is one of my favorite conversations in recent memory — with the writer Zadie Smith.
Smith is the author of novels, including “White Teeth,...
The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom is the 2028 Democratic front-runner. That’s what many of the polls and the Polymarket betting odds say.
It’s been widely believed t...
Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger
My colleague Ross Douthat talks to the journalist who exposed Jeffrey Epstein.
This episode of “Interesting Times,” with the Miami Herald inves...
Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
The holidays are an unusually social time, filled with parties and family get-togethers. But for most of the year, we feel isolated and unsatisfied wi...
Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right
On Monday night, in front of a live audience, I talked to Fareed Zakaria about the different political age he believes we’ve entered.
Zakaria i...
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Patti Smith, “the Godmother of Punk,” has lived a wild life and accumulated so much wisdom in the process. In the 1960s and ’70s, Smith was a fixture...
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem
Is this the future of MAGA?
Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes has caused a firestorm on the right. C...
What Were Democrats Thinking?
Democrats’ case for the government shutdown was just starting to break through to voters. Why fold now?
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at...
The Blue Wave Cometh?
Democrats won big on Tuesday. It looks like the MAGA coalition has started to crack.
Ezra is joined by his column editor, Aaron Retica, to discu...
This Is How the Democratic Party Beats Trump
Democrats don’t just need to win more people; they also need to win more places. And that requires a different kind of thinking.
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The Israeli Right’s Plan to Carve Up Gaza
Israeli forces still occupy half of Gaza. In the cease-fire deal, Israel agreed to fully withdraw its presence there once Hamas fully demilitarized. B...
Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?
The “Democratic penalty” should scare the hell out of Democrats.
The Democratic Party brand has become toxic in certain parts of the country, es...
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard from red states into blue cities isn’t just a partisan attack; it’s also a geographic one. In the 2...
Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold?
Every Israeli-Palestinian peace deal has failed. Could Trump’s be any different?
On Oct. 10, the Israeli cabinet approved a cease-fire deal brok...
How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?
Eliezer Yudkowsky is as afraid as you could possibly be. He makes his case.
Yudkowsky is a pioneer of A.I. safety research, who started warning...
Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right
The government shutdown is the Democrats’ first big strategic bet of Trump’s term.
Not everyone in the party agreed that shutting down the gover...
What the Shutdown Is Really About
There’s a serious high-stakes policy fight at the heart of this.
The Democrats didn’t pick a fight over authoritarianism or tariffs or masked im...
A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
Brian Eno’s music opens up worlds I love to step into during trying times. And this conversation with Eno did the same thing.
Eno is a trailblaz...