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This Is Why People Hate the Government
In 2024, Americans spent an average of six full workdays a year filling out government forms, according to the government’s own estimates. That’s a to...
The China Shock 2.0
Brad Setser follows Chinese trade closer than just about anyone else on earth, and he thinks we’re in the early days of a China Shock 2.0.
The f...
The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
We are living in the world we were warned about. Frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another, then b...
What if America Followed the Rules?
We’re in a really strange moment in the foreign policy politics of the Democratic Party. People are looking for an alternative vision — an approach to...
Ross Douthat: The Exit Interview
My colleague Ross Douthat is leaving The Times after 17 years to become a correspondent on “60 Minutes.” Before he goes, I’m asking him a few question...
AMA: Peter Thiel, Chris Rufo and the D.S.A.
The show’s executive producer, Claire Gordon, joins me in the studio to ask me your questions. Topics include: whether my views on “woke” issues have...
The A.I. Revolt Is Here
What’s big and ugly and has united Republicans and Democrats? A.I. data centers.
An overwhelming majority of Americans say they’d oppose a data...
Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul
'The Odyssey' is the political movie of the decade.
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
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How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman
The first year of President Trump’s second term was a whirlwind of action: on immigration, on trade, on political retribution. But things seem to me t...
What is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?
President Trump is very unpopular right now. But polls show the Democratic Party is just as unpopular – if not more so. So what can the party do about...
Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong
Morris Katz helped orchestrate Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory and Graham Platner’s ultimately disastrous run for Senate. It’s quite a résumé for a...
Best Of: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
How Brian Eno expanded the possibilities of what music and sound can be.
Eno is a trailblazing musician and producer who’s worked on seminal rec...
What Xi Jinping Wants
You can’t understand China today without understanding its president, Xi Jinping.
Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has doubled down on communis...
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Already this summer, there have been huge wildfires in the Southwest and Great Plains and an extraordinary heat wave in Europe, as the world stares do...
A Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians
The old solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don’t seem to fit the present reality.
A two-state solution feels increasingly impossible,...
The America That’s Still Possible
What does it mean to celebrate America on its 250th anniversary?
The Trump administration’s festivities — from the U.F.C. fight on the White Hou...
Chris Rufo Thinks the Right Can Control This. I Don’t.
Christopher Rufo is arguably the most successful activist of the MAGA era. He rose to prominence fighting D.E.I. initiatives and critical race theory....
I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel
A hypervisual, looks-obsessed, wellness-crazed, postliterate society where we’re constantly staring at screens and evaluating one another based on met...
Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and the New Rules of Political Attention
Attention is working in really unusual ways this election cycle.
Graham Platner, a political unknown a year ago, ended up dominating his Senate...
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?
The Democratic Party is in the middle of a rupture over foreign policy – with Israel and Palestine at the center.
In recent weeks, the Democrati...
The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men
A new masculinist movement has gone mainstream on the right.
The prominent voices in this movement yearn for an earlier time, when men were men...
Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World
Over the past month, there have been two dominant stories in American foreign policy. One, of course, is the war with Iran. The other is the much-anti...
Does Trump Want to Lose the Midterms?
President Trump doesn’t seem to care that much about winning the midterms. He’s more unpopular at this point in his second term than basically any of...
Yuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep Making
What are the conditions that enable a country to become great — or great again? The Trump administration — and other right-wing movements in other cou...
How to End the Gerrymandering Doom Loop Forever
We have entered a world of maximum gerrymandering warfare. Any guardrails that once existed, from the Constitution or the courts, have been bulldozed...
This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential
What do you do when you feel anxious or insecure? Many of us try to push the feeling away, or we ruminate on it, or try to solve it, or avoid the thou...
I Have Some Questions for the Democrats Who Want to Run California
On Friday, I moderated a forum with the top Democratic candidates for California governor, focusing on the state’s housing crisis.
California’s...
GLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness
Here’s a shocking number: One out of eight American adults is taking a GLP-1, like Ozempic or Zepbound, according to a KFF poll.
GLP-1s are the...
The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism
In the U.S., illiberalism is in power. I don’t think anybody really argues against that. But I’ve been surprised by how weak liberalism has felt in re...
What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’
“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the wa...
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle
Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bri...
Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?
Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this electio...
Why Jeff Bezos’ Tax Rate Is Lower Than Yours
Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wea...
Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
For decades, most discussions of Israel and Palestine were framed around the eventual creation of a two-state solution. That effort has been dead for...
The Civilization Trump Destroys May Be Our Own
When President Trump didn’t annihilate “a whole civilization” on Tuesday, as he had threatened to do, much of the world exhaled. But the damage of his...
Why Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand
In a prime time address on Wednesday, President Trump proclaimed that America was “on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat.” But he also kept ope...
Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And y...
Will Iran Break Trumpism?
Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war?
That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s...
How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?
Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more...
Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’
Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to de...