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Democracy in America
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Latest Episodes
A New Middle East?
For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents, both Republican and Democrat, have resisted â until President Trump. So, what changed? And what are the likely consequences of that decision?
Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a longtime diplomat in the region. He joins me to discuss recent events and how the latest attacks on Iran have changed the balance of power in the Middle East.
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
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Martin Indyk
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
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Susan Glasser
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
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Hussein Agha,
Robert Malley
Is This Americaâs Golden Age? A Debate.
Kevin Roberts, Kellyanne Conway, Ben Rhodes and I battled it out a few weeks ago on a stage in Toronto.
This was for a Munk Debate on the motion: âBe it resolved, this is Americaâs Golden Age.â It might not surprise you that I was arguing the negative, alongside Rhodes, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama and the co-host of âPod Save the World.â Roberts and Conway were on the other side. Roberts is the president of the Heritage Foundation and an architect of Project 2025. Conway was Donald Trumpâs senior counselor in his first term.
The Munk Debates organization has kindly let us share the audio of that debate with you.
If you havenât heard of the Munk Debates, you should really check it out. Itâs a Canadian nonprofit that, for more than 15 years, has been hosting discussions on contentious, thought-provoking topics. If you go to its site and become a supporter, you can watch the entire video archive. A classic I recommend: âBe it resolved, religion is a force for good in the worldâ with Tony Blair debating Christopher Hitchens.
Note: This recording has not been fact-checked by our team.
June 20, 2025
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How to Beat Trump Back on Trans Rights â and Much Else
President Trumpâs actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. Theyâve also been popular.
Trump has sought new restrictions on trans people in sports, schools, the military, prisons and medical care, and in government documentation. And a recent poll found that a majority of Americans approve of how Mr. Trump is handling trans issues â far above how he is handling his presidency generally. On trans-related issues, Americansâ opinions have moved right since 2022. What led the trans-rights movement to suffer not just a major electoral loss, but also a sweeping loss of public support?
Sarah McBride is a freshman congresswoman from Delaware, where she was previously a state senator. And she is the first openly transgender member of Congress. In our conversation, Representative McBride reckons with the trans rights movementâs shortcomings, what liberalism should look like in a profoundly illiberal time and how to win hearts and minds through a politics of âgrace.â Itâs the most stirring defense of the practice of politics â with all its compromises and disappointments and frustrations â Iâve heard in some time.
This episode contains strong language.
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Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza
It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months.
The death count is above 50,000 people â more than 15,000 of whom are children â and at least 1.9 million of Gazaâs 2.1 million people have been displaced over and over again. Starvation is rampant. Hospitals are either damaged or closed; there are only 2,000 remaining hospital beds.
Nearly two years after the atrocities of Oct. 7, Israel still has no plan for the day after the conflict ends. Instead, it is escalating its assault on what remains of Hamas and seizing territory to expand its security buffer zone. There are reports that the government is considering a plan that would herd the Gaza Stripâs Palestinians into just a small fraction of the territory. In the West Bank, meanwhile, settler violence has increased sharply, and new settlements are moving forward at a record pace.
Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, recently published a searing opinion essay in Haaretz, one of Israelâs most influential newspapers: âEnough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes.â He joins me to discuss why he believes Israelâs war in Gaza can no longer be justified, what he finds missing in Israelâs current political leadership and why he has not yet given up hope for a two-state solution.
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Trump's Foreign Policy, Explained
Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didnât entirely expect. He seems determined to get a nuclear deal with Iran. Heâs been public about his disagreements with Benjamin Netanyahu. He called Vladimir Putin âcrazy.â And he keeps talking about wanting his legacy to be that of a peacemaker.
So what, at this point, can we say about Trumpâs foreign policy? What is he trying to do, and how well is it working? If he succeeds, what might his legacy be?
Emma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a foreign policy think tank, and the author of the forthcoming book âFirst Among Equals.â She comes from a school of thought thatâs more sympathetic to the âAmerica Firstâ agenda than I typically am. But sheâs also cleareyed about what is and isnât working and the ways that Trump is an idiosyncratic foreign policy maker who isnât always following an âAmerica Firstâ agenda himself.
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Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
This is a bit of a strange episode. Itâs an attempt to explore the difficulty of everything weâre supposed to feel in a day. Weâre in a time when to open the news is to expose yourself to horrors â ones that are a world away, others that are growing ever closer, or perhaps have already made landfall in our lives. And then many of us look up from our screens into a normal spring day. What do you do with that?
But thatâs not new or exceptional. Itâs the human condition. It exists for all of us, and it always has: life intermingling with death, grief coexisting with joy. Kathryn Schulzâs memoir, âLost & Found,â is all about this experience â the core of her book isnât losing a parent or finding a life partner. Itâs the âandâ that connects them both. How do we hold all that we have to hold, all at once? How do we not feel overwhelmed, or emotionally numbed?
I found this to be a beautiful conversation. But itâs also a conversation â particularly at the beginning â about loss and grief. That was the part that felt truest to me, and so I hope noting it doesnât warn you off. But I wanted to note it.
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The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP
Steve Bannon famously talked about using âmuzzle velocityâ as a strategy: doing so much so quickly that you overwhelm the ability of the media to cover it. I think what the Trump family is doing with crypto is muzzle velocity for corruption.
What theyâre doing isnât necessarily illegal. It would be if these were official campaign donations; the sums involved are so large, and the buyers include foreign nationals. But the Trump family is making this money personally. And theyâre doing it across so many different crypto ventures, itâs almost impossible to keep track.
So thatâs what I wanted to do with this episode: try to track at least some of it.
The person Iâve enlisted to help me out is Zeke Faux. Heâs the author of the fantastic book âNumber Go Up: Inside Cryptoâs Wild Rise and Staggering Fallâ and an investigative reporter at Bloomberg, where heâs been covering many of these strange Trump family crypto schemes.
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Trumpâs Big Budget Bomb
Trumpâs âbig, beautiful billâ is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legislation to be seriously proposed in my lifetime.
When you think about this bill, you should think about risk. It would increase our risk of a fiscal crisis by adding a hefty sum to our nationâs debt, at a time when weâre alienating the countries that typically buy our debt. It would slash food stamps and strip health insurance from millions of people, increasing the risk that the safety net wonât be able to catch any of us, at a time when President Trumpâs tariffs have increased the risk of a recession.
Itâs what Iâm calling the Big Budget Bomb. And if it passes, weâll all be in the blast radius.
My guest today is Catherine Rampell. Sheâs an opinion columnist at The Washington Post and an anchor on MSNBC. Sheâs been covering this closely, so I asked her to come on the show to help talk through all the different risks this bill brings.
Editorâs note: This episode was recorded before the House passed Trumpâs domestic policy package.
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How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up?
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompsonâs new book argues there was. âOriginal Sin: President Bidenâs Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Againâ details how Bidenâs top advisers closed the circle around him and tried to conceal the extent of his decline.
But I think the story here is more complicated. If Bidenâs top advisers were misleading the public, I think they were also lying to themselves. And if there was a cover-up, it had a lot of holes; voters had been telling pollsters they were worried about Bidenâs age for years.
So I wanted to have Tapper on the show to talk about the discoveries in his book, but also about some of the bigger questions raised by the Democratic Partyâs decision to almost renominate Biden: How do you see what is right in front of your eyes? How do you avoid letting loyalty to a person or a party blind you?
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Is Trump Losing? A Debate
Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do that and failing? Is this what sliding toward authoritarianism looks like? Or is this what a functioning democracy looks like? And how can you tell the difference?
Two articles came out recently that offer very different perspectives on these questions. In Vox, Zack Beauchamp wrote a piece called âTrump Is Losing,â which argues that Trumpâs efforts to cow his enemies and consolidate power are not organized or strategic enough to make a serious dent in our democratic system. In The New Yorker, Andrew Marantz published a piece that he reported in Hungary, about how life in a modern authoritarian regime doesnât look and feel like you might expect: âYou can live through the big one, it turns out, and still go on acting as if â still go on feeling as if â the big one is not yet here,â he writes.
So I invited both Beauchamp and Marantz on the show to debate these big questions: What timeline are we on? What signs are they looking at? If weâve crossed the line into authoritarianism, how would we know? Is Trump losing? Or is it possible heâs already won?
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
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Political Liberalism (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)
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A World after Liberalism: Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right
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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
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I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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âWe Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Educationâ
I honestly donât know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingenious cheating technology ever devised. But for me, the deeper question is: What should schools be teaching at all? A.I. is going to make the future look very different. How do you prepare kids for a world you canât predict?
And if we can offload more and more tasks to generative A.I., whatâs left for the human mind to do?
Rebecca Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is also an author, with Jenny Anderson, of âThe Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.â We discuss how A.I. is transforming what it means to work and be educated, and how our use of A.I. could revive â or undermine â American schools.
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Democracy and Education by John Dewey: With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey (Timely Classics in Education, 1)
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Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
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How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of just 13 Democrats to represent a district that Donald Trump won. Her distinctive economic message, and a willingness to buck her own party, helped her win re-election. But now the reality of the Trump era is coming home.
Gluesenkamp Perez faced raucous crowds at town halls in Washington State recently, with some of her more liberal constituents furious that she isnât opposing the administration more forcefully. At the same time, the White House has started making economic arguments that sound very similar to ones that sheâs made â that we should consume less, produce more and import less stuff from abroad.
So I wanted to talk to her about how sheâs navigating this moment. What does she think of Trumpâs economic agenda? What reactions is she seeing across her district? How does a Democrat now represent both terrified liberals and loyal Trump voters?
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Trump vs. the Dollar
The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world relies on our currency has long been understood as our exorbitant privilege â the reason we have so much leverage in the global economy and are able to borrow at lower interest rates.
But the Trump administration has a much more complicated relationship with the dollar. It has come to see dollar dominance as a burden we bear on behalf of the rest of the world. But in its attempts to move away from dollar dominance, is the Trump administration on the verge of creating a financial crisis?
Kenneth Rogoff is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at Harvard University. He has a book coming out called âOur Dollar, Your Problem.â In this conversation he walks through the history of dollar dominance, why itâs been waning in recent years and what ripple effects the Trump administrationâs policies might have.
This episode contains strong language.
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Abundance and the Left
âAbundance,â the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And itâs generated a lot of interesting critiques, too, especially from the left. So I wanted to dedicate an episode to talking through some of them.
My guests today are both on the left but have very different perspectives. Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and one of the most prominent voices in the antimonopoly movement. Saikat Chakrabarti is the president and co-founder of New Consensus, a think tank that has been trying to think through what it would take to build at Green New Deal scale and pace. And he is currently running to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress.
I found this conversation wonderfully clarifying â both in the places it revealed agreement, and perhaps even more in the places it revealed difference.
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. Itâs about religion and belief â at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.
My guest and I come from very different perspectives. Ross Douthat is a Catholic conservative, who wrote a book called âBelieve: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.â Iâm a ⌠Californian. But I think everyone would enjoy this conversation â believers, skeptics and seekers alike.
Some questions touched on: Is the Trump administration Christian or pagan? How do Christian Trump supporters reconcile the cruelties of this administration with their faith? Can religious experiences be explained by misfiring neurons? Should organized religions embrace psychedelics? Can mystery provide more comfort than certainty?
And if you do enjoy this episode, be sure to check out Douthatâs new New York Times Opinion Audio show âInteresting Times,â available wherever you get your podcasts, and on YouTube.
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The Very American Roots of Trumpism
After last weekâs episode, âThe Emergency Is Here,â we got a lot of emails. And the most common reply was: You really think weâll have midterm elections in 2026? Isnât that naĂŻve?
I think we will have midterms. But one reason I think so many people are skeptical of that is theyâre working with comparisons to other places: Mussoliniâs Italy, Putinâs Russia, Pinochetâs Chile.
But we donât need to look abroad for parallels; it has happened here.
Steven Hahn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at New York University and the author of âIlliberal America: A History.â In this conversation, he walks me through some of the most illiberal periods in American history: Andrew Jacksonâs Indian Removal Act of 1830, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, Japanese American internment, Operation Wetback. And we discuss how this legacy can help us better understand whatâs happening right now.
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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Troubled Memory, Second Edition: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana
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The Emergency Is Here
The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a prison built for disappearance, a prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, a prison where the only way out, according to El Salvadorâs justice minister, is in a coffin.
The president says he wants to send âhomegrownâ Americans there next.
This is the emergency. Like it or not, itâs here.
Asha Rangappa is a former F.B.I. special agent and now an assistant dean and senior lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, as well as a member of the board of editors for Just Security and the author of The Freedom Academy on Substack.
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Tom Friedman Thinks Weâre Getting China Dangerously Wrong
My colleague Tom Friedman thinks weâre screwed.
Thatâs the first thing he told me when recounting his recent trip to China. Itâs not just because of the trade war that President Trump is escalating right now. Friedman believes the whole Washington consensus on China â that the country is a hostile adversary â is dangerous and based on an outdated understanding of what China now is. He saw how Chinaâs manufacturing and technology have advanced so far that in many ways it now surpasses the United Statesâ.
In this conversation, Friedman walks me through the advancements he saw in some of the most critical fields of the coming decades â including A.I., E.V.s and clean energy. We discuss why he sees the current consensus as dangerous, what a different path might look like and what the United States should do to develop its domestic manufacturing so that we donât âget steamrolled.â
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Trumpâs Tariffs Are Part of a âTectonic Plate Shiftâ in the Global Economy
After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didnât pull that far back. He left a 10 percent tariff on most of the world and launched a trade war with China. Itâs unclear what he will do after this 90-day pause or what countries need to do to satisfy him. But one thing that is very clear now is that our economy is subject to one manâs whims.
How are businesses supposed to adapt to this new reality? What is this new reality?
Peter R. Orszag is the chief executive and chairman of Lazard, one of the worldâs largest asset management and global financial advisory firms. He also served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama, so was a policymaker during a financial crisis. And over the past few months, heâs been talking to lots of C.E.O.s and corporate board members as they try to process these changing policies. I wanted to ask him what heâs been hearing and how he sees the volatility of this moment.
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Smart Money: How Digital Currencies Will Shape the New World Order
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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
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Paul Krugman on the âBiggest Trade Shock in Historyâ
The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot more confusing. These arenât the flat tariffs he proposed during the campaign. And they arenât reciprocal tariffs, as he claimed in his Rose Garden speech. So what is Trump actually doing here?
I knew my former colleague Paul Krugman would have some thoughts. Krugman is a Nobel laureate trade economist who was a New York Times Opinion columnist for 25 years. He now writes an excellent newsletter on Substack, where heâs been trying to make sense of the theories behind Trumpâs tariff policies and, now, their strange reality.
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Parenting in the Age of Social Media and â Help! â A.I.
Thereâs something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states â including California, Florida and Ohio â have passed bills or adopted policies that aim to limit cellphone usage at school. More are expected to follow.
Jonathan Haidt is the leader of this particular insurgency. âThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,â his book exploring the decline of the âplay-based childhoodâ and the rise of the âphone-based childhood,â has been on the New York Times best-seller list for a year. It feels, to me, like weâre finally figuring out a reasonable approach to smartphones and social media and kids ⌠just in time for that approach to be deranged by the question of A.I. and kids, which no one is really prepared for.
So I wanted to have Haidt on the show to talk through both of those topics, and the questions we often ignore beneath them: What is childhood for? What are parents for? What do human beings need in order to flourish? You know, the small stuff.
Haidt is a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and the author of âThe Righteous Mindâ and âThe Coddling of the American Mindâ (with Greg Lukianoff). His newsletter is called After Babel.
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The Last 2 Months â and Next 2 Years â of U.S. Politics
Itâs our first subscriber-only âAsk Me Anythingâ of the year. The showâs executive producer, Claire Gordon, joins me to discuss your questions about the risk of a constitutional crisis and how Democrats, businesses and universities are responding to President Trump.
Thank you to everyone who sent in questions. And if you arenât a New York Times subscriber but would like to be, just go to https://www.nytimes.com/subscription.
This episode contains strong language.
What is DOGEâs Real Goal?
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more efficient government? But âefficiencyâ obfuscates whatâs really happening here.
Efficiency to what end? Elon Musk, President Trump and DOGEâs boosters have offered various objectives â cutting the deficit, eliminating fraud and abuse, creating a leaner and more responsive government. But DOGEâs actions in the past two months donât seem to align with any of those goals.
Santi Ruiz is a senior editor at the Institute for Progress and the author and host of the âStatecraftâ podcast and newsletter. Heâs to my right politically and had higher hopes, at first, about DOGEâs efforts, but heâs now grappling with the reality of what itâs actually doing.
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The End of the Modern World: With Power and Responsibility
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The Origins of Abundance
To mark the release of our new book âAbundance,â my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podcast, âPlain English,â to talk about it. Weâre on book tour right now, so weâre doing a lot of talking about this book. But this conversation is different. Itâs just Derek and me, and we get into the story of how the book came together, and all the people and ideas that influenced us â a kind of intellectual history of the abundance agenda. And I thought the audience of this show might find this interesting too.Â
This episode of âPlain Englishâ was recorded on March 11.
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Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
After the last election, there were all kinds of theories about where Democrats went wrong. But now, four months later, we have a lot more data â and it tells a few clear stories.
David Shor is the head of data science at Blue Rose Research, a Democratic polling firm, which does an enormous amount of surveying of the electorate. A few weeks ago, Shor was walking me through a deck he made of key charts and numbers that explain the election results. And I thought this would be good to do in public. Because this is information that doesnât just help explain what went wrong for Democrats in 2024. Itâs a set of hard truths they need to keep in mind to mount a comeback in 2026 and 2028.
This episode is also a bit of an experiment. It works great in audio. But on YouTube, you can actually see the slides. So if youâre up for a video podcast, this is a good one to start with: https://www.youtube.com/@EzraKleinShow
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The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
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Sasha Issenberg
Is Trump âDetoxingâ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Itâs hard to understand the economic logic of President Trumpâs tariffs. In our last episode, we tried, but with limited success. And that might be because the logic here isnât entirely economic at all.
So we wanted to spend an episode looking at Trumpâs economic policies through a wider lens.
Gillian Tett is a columnist at The Financial Times and a member of its editorial board. Sheâs also a trained anthropologist with a Ph.D. And she brings both perspectives into this conversation â exploring Trumpâs policies as economics, as well as power politics, patronage and cultural messaging â which I think makes the whole thing make a bit more sense.
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace - Classic Illustrated Edition
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Why Trumpâs Tariffs Wonât Work
Wall Street thought Donald Trump was bluffing about his tariff plans. The stock market rallied after his election. But the reality has started setting in. Trump is doubling down on tariffs, even as he warned Americans that the economy may experience a âperiod of transition,â insisting this is just short-term pain.
So what exactly is Trumpâs theory here? And how much pain should we expect?
Answering those questions requires a bit of a tariffs primer. And the economist Kimberly Clausing kindly agreed to come on the show, walk through the basics, and help me make sense of what Trump is doing here. Clausing has modeled the possible costs and consequences of the tariffs Trump has proposed, and she breaks down how much you and I might end up paying. Clausing is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a professor at U.C.L.A. and the author of âOpen: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital.â
This conversation contains strong language.
Note: This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, March 5.
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There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.
This audio essay is adapted from my forthcoming book, âAbundance,â which I wrote with Derek Thompson. You can preorder it here. And learn more about our book tour here.
This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty Test
The economy has started blinking red. President Trumpâs tariffs have been roiling markets. Consumer sentiment was already down. G.D.P. forecasts are predicting slower growth. And on Tuesday night Trump declared to Congress and the nation that things had never been better.
Something was different about this speech. The level of baldfaced lying. The way Republicans cheered along. How uncomfortable and uncertain Democrats seemed. It was as if, watching it all, you could feel something rupturing.
My editor, Aaron Retica, joins me to talk through Trumpâs fifth address to Congress.
This episode contains strong language.
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by our supervising editor, Claire Gordon. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Aman Sahota. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
Artificial general intelligence â an A.I. system that can beat humans at almost any cognitive task â is arriving in just a couple of years. Thatâs what people tell me â people who work in A.I. labs, researchers who follow their work, former White House officials. A lot of these people have been calling me over the last couple of months trying to convey the urgency. This is coming during President Trumpâs term, they tell me. Weâre not ready.
One of the people who reached out to me was Ben Buchanan, the top adviser on A.I. in the Biden White House. And I thought it would be interesting to have him on the show for a couple reasons: Heâs not connected to an A.I. lab, and he was at the nerve center of policymaking on A.I. for years. So what does he see coming? What keeps him up at night? And what does he think the Trump administration needs to do to get ready for the AGI â or something like AGI â he believes is right on the horizon?
This episode contains strong language.
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The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
If youâre looking for a single-sentence summation of the change in Americaâs foreign policy under Donald Trump, you could do worse than what Trump said on Wednesday:
âThe European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. Thatâs the purpose of it. And theyâve done a good job of it. But now Iâm president.â
Trump seems to loathe Americaâs traditional European allies even as he warms relations with Russia. Heâs threatened tariffs on Canada and Mexico while softening his rhetoric on China. And he seems fixated on the idea of territorial expansion â whether itâs the Panama Canal, Greenland or even Gaza. Â
There is a âTrump doctrineâ emerging here. Itâs one that could be glimpsed dimly in Trumpâs first term but is exploding to the fore in his second. What will it mean for the world? What will it mean for the United States?
Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNNâs âFareed Zakaria GPS,â a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of the best-selling âAge of Revolutions.â Heâs one of the clearest foreign policy thinkers around, and he doesnât disappoint here.
This episode contains strong language.
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A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics
In 2016, when Donald Trump won the first time, a little-known book became an unexpected phenomenon. It was âThe Revolt of the Public,â self-published two years earlier by a former C.I.A. media analyst, Martin Gurri. Gurri, who is now a visiting research fellow at the Mercatus Center, argued that a revolution in how information flowed was driving political upheavals in country after country: The dynamics of modern media ecosystems naturally created distrust toward institutions and elites, and this was fueling waves of revolt against the status quo. The problem, though, was that though these dynamics could destroy existing political systems, they could not build enduring replacements.
Gurriâs book has been on my mind over the past year. In some ways, it explains 2024 better than it explains 2016. But time didnât just change Gurriâs book; it changed Gurri. After refusing to cast a ballot for president in 2016 and 2020, he voted for Donald Trump in 2024. And in his writing for The Free Press, The New York Post and elsewhere, heâs been arguing that Trumpâs second term might herald the mastery of this new informational world and the emergence of an enduring new political system.
I found myself more convinced by Gurriâs old theory than his new one. So I asked him on the show to talk about it.
(Also: If youâre interested in joining Ezra Klein on his book tour in March and April, you can see the stops and get tickets for the events here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/abundance-tour)
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A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
After the elections, I started asking congressional Democrats the same question: If the elections had gone the other way, if they had won a trifecta, what would be their first big bill? In almost every case, they said they didnât know. Thatâs a problem.
Democrats are in the opposition now. That means fighting the worst of what Trump is doing. But it also means providing an alternative. So one thing Iâm going to do this year is talk to Democrats who are trying to find that alternative â an agenda that meets the challenges of the moment, not just one carried from the past.
Representative Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts is the first up to bat. We spoke in January, so we donât cover the latest Trump news. The conversation is really focused on his ideas, and he has a lot of interesting ones â about the abundance agenda, the attention economy and how Democrats should talk about policy during a second Trump term. I donât necessarily agree with every idea he offers, but heâs definitely wrestling with that question I posed to other Democrats: What is your alternative?
This episode contains strong language.
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The Republican Partyâs NPC Problem â and Ours
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This audio essay for âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by our supervising editor, Claire Gordon. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Mixing by Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Feb. 16, 2025
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What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?
We are moving into the next phase of Donald Trumpâs presidency. Phase 1 was the blitz of executive actions. Now comes the response from the other parts of the government â namely, the courts.
A slew of judges, some of them Republican appointees, have frozen a number of the administrationâs most aggressive actions: the destruction of U.S.A.I.D., the spending freeze, DOGEâs access to the Treasury payments system and the executive order to end birthright citizenship, to name just a few.
The administration has largely â though not entirely â been abiding by these court decisions. Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance suggested it might stop. âJudges arenât allowed to control the executiveâs legitimate power,â he posted. Down that path lies a true constitutional crisis.
So what happens if the Trump administration simply tells the courts to shove it? And what other pushback and opposition is the administration beginning to face across the government? Quinta Jurecic, a senior editor at Lawfare, joins me to talk it through.
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What Elon Musk Wants
Elon Musk has been on a slash-and-burn tear through the federal government â gaining access to I.T. systems, dismantling U.S.A.I.D. and unleashing a firehose of attacks on his platform, X, accusing the bureaucracy of various conspiratorial crimes.
As this all unfolds before our eyes, itâs hard to believe that Musk, not that long ago, was a conventional Obama-era liberal. How did a guy who cared about climate change and going to Mars, whose companies were buoyed by government largess, become Donald Trumpâs most unapologetic soldier? What does he hope to do with all this power? What does Musk want?
Kara Swisher has been reporting on Musk for decades and is one of the great tech reporters of our age. She hosts the podcasts âOn With Kara Swisherâ and âPivot,â with Scott Galloway, and is the author of âBurn Book: A Tech Love Story.â
This episode contains strong language.
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The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
There are two pieces to this episode. First, a tour of what Donald Trump has done â and what he has backed down from doing â over the last few days. Thereâs a lesson there. Perhaps Democrats are starting to learn it.
Then I wanted to hear the view of Trumpâs first weeks back in office from someone on the right â someone who agrees with many of Trumpâs policies, but also understands how the government works and who cares about our Constitution.
Yuval Levin is the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His latest book is âAmerican Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation â and Could Again.â What struck me about our conversation is that, on the one hand, Levin is less alarmed about much of whatâs happening than I am. But on the other hand, heâs a lot less impressed by what Trump is actually getting done â and how these moves are likely to work out for him â than most Democrats I know. Itâs a perspective very much worth hearing.
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Don't Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trumpâs second term and youâll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This audio essay for âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by our supervising editor, Claire Gordon. Fact-checking by Jack McCordick. Mixing by Isaac Jones. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Aaron Retica.
Feb. 2, 2025
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MAGAâs Big Tech Divide
MAGA has long been hostile to Big Tech. So now that Big Tech is shifting rightward, what does that mean for MAGA?
âWeâre seeing a true political coalition having to navigate very, very big questions about how to keep themselves together,â James Pogue told me. Heâs a contributing writer at Times Opinion who has been covering the intellectual ferment on the New Right for years. And he just published a great piece about the tensions between the techno-optimists and skeptics within the MAGA coalition.
In this conversation, we cover a lot: How the New Rightâs intellectual scene has evolved, the renewed fascination with Ted Kaczynskiâs manifesto, why some of the most passionate critics of tech are also the most online, how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fits into this world, the New Rightâs ideas about masculinity and how much Donald Trump cares about any of this.
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Letâs Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
On the first day of President Trumpâs second term, he signed a record 26 executive orders. Some of them were really big. Others feel more likely messaging memos. And still others are bound to be held up in the courts. So what does it all amount to? What exactly in America has changed?
In a former life, I co-hosted a podcast called âThe Weedsâ with other policy wonks at Vox, including Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias. Weâve since gone our separate ways; Lind is currently a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, and Yglesias is the author of the Substack newsletter Slow Boring. But since this was such a big policy week, I wanted to get some of the band back together.
In this conversation, we discuss how much Trumpâs immigration orders will actually change our immigration system; whether any of Trumpâs orders address Americansâ concerns over prices; how serious Trump actually is about tariffs; and more.
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progressâand How to Bring It Back
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Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics
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The New Rules of the Trump Era
Thereâs a quieter transition happening beneath the pageantry of this weekâs inaugural events â a transition not of power per se but of the rules around how power in Washington works. And the new rules look very different from the old ones.
In this conversation, Iâm joined by Aaron Retica, an editor at large for New York Times Opinion (and my column editor), to discuss what President Trumpâs inaugural address and first round of executive orders signal about the administration to come. We talk about the end of birthright citizenship and the renegotiation of American belonging, why Trump is so fixated on Greenland and the Panama Canal, his retro-futurist vision of American power, the unsettling arrival of a new tech oligarchy and more.
Attention Is Power
Trump is a master at wielding attention. Heâs been owning news cycles and squatting in Americansâ minds for much of the last decade. And for his second term he has an ally in Elon Musk, a man with a similar uncanny skill set.
Trump and Musk seem to have figured out something about how attention works in our fragmented media age â and how to use it for political and cultural power â that Democrats simply havenât. So what is it? What do they understand about attention that their opponents donât?
Chris Hayes is the host of MSNBCâs âAll In,â and has written a forthcoming book, âThe Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.â And heâs a brilliant thinker on how our modern attention economy works and what itâs doing to our politics.
We discuss what Hayes sees as a revolution happening to our attention, which he compares to the Industrial Revolution in its scale and impact; why the old rules about attention in politics no longer apply; the key insight Trump had about attention that fueled his rise; why Musk didnât really overpay for Twitter; and how Democrats can compete in this new attentional world.
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Biden Promised to âTurn the Pageâ on Trump. What Went Wrong?
Joe Biden wanted to show Americans that there was a better path than Trumpism. He worked to build a âforeign policy for the middle class.â He centered industrial policy. He took a more competitive tack with China. He kept America out of wars. The hope was that if Americans saw foreign policy serving their interests, then that would dim the appeal of someone like Donald Trump.
Then Trump won again â stronger than ever.
Jake Sullivan is Bidenâs national security adviser and one of the key architects of this foreign policy for the middle class. In this conversation, I ask him to walk me through why he thinks the country is better off today than it was four years ago. We discuss the status of Americaâs relationship with China and the risk of a future war; whether the U.S. should have used its leverage to force Ukraine to the negotiating table; how the enormous arms support of Israel serves U.S. interests; what Trumpâs re-election says about Bidenism; and more.
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Trump 2.0 and the Return of âCourt Politicsâ
The preview weâve had into Donald Trumpâs second administration already feels, by American standards, disturbingly abnormal: Picking a former âFox and Friendsâ host for defense secretary. Billionaire after billionaire trekking to Mar-a-Lago to curry favor with the president-elect. The Washington Post withholding an opposing endorsement. Meta ending its third-party fact-checking.
But all of this is actually pretty normal â not in the U.S. but in many other countries. Researchers call them personalist regimes, in which everything is a transaction with the leader, whether itâs party politics or policymaking or the media. Itâs a style of politics that follows different rules, but there are still rules. And understanding personalist politics, and their tried-and-true playbook, is a way to help make the next four years legible.
Todayâs guest is one of the leading scholars on personalist regimes, in both their democratic and their authoritarian forms. Erica Frantz is a political scientist at Michigan State University and an author of âThe Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy From Within.â In this conversation, we discuss what personalist regimes are and how they operate, the personalist qualities of Trump and the signs of democratic backsliding that Frantz thinks Americans need to track in the coming weeks and years.
This episode contains strong language.
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Burned Out? Start Here.
I like to begin each year with an episode about something Iâm working through more personally. And at the end of last year, the thing I needed to work through was a pretty bad case of burnout.
So I picked up Oliver Burkemanâs latest book, âMeditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.â Burkemanâs big idea, which he also explores in his best seller âFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals,â is that the desire to be more productive, to squeeze out the most from each day, to try to feel on top of our lives, is ultimately insatiable. He argues that addressing burnout requires a shift in outlook â accepting that our time and energy are finite, and that there will always be something more to do. In other words: What if you began with a deeper appreciation of your own limits? How, then, would you live?
Burkemanâs book is structured as 28 short essays on this question. In this conversation, I ask him to walk me through some of them. We discuss what burnout is; what it means to accept your limitations and let go of control; the messages children absorb about productivity and work; navigating the overwhelm of information and news; and more.
This episode contains strong language.
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What Iâm Thinking at the End of 2024
Thereâs a lot to process as 2024 draws to a close.
In our end-of-year Ask Me Anything, the supervising editor of âThe Ezra Klein Show,â Claire Gordon, joins Ezra in the studio to ask your questions â on politics, and lots of not-politics too. Ezra talks about the ways this year has affected him personally: how his views on government have changed; his efforts to stave off burnout; and his off-again, on-again relationship with social media.
They also discuss the making of the show: the accusation that certain episodes have ânormalizedâ Donald Trump; how weâre going to approach covering the next administration; the story behind our new theme music; and whatâs going on with that arm tattoo.
Thank you to the listeners who sent in questions, and to everyone whoâs tuned in this year. Without you, this year would have been a lot lonelier. (We also wouldnât have jobs.) Weâll be re-airing one of our favorite episodes this Friday (on the art of rest). And then weâll be back here with new episodes in 2025. Wishing you a great end to 2024. Happy new year!
This episode contains strong language.
Yes, Bidenâs Green Future Can Still Happen Under Trump
In 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly half a trillion dollars of investment in green energy and manufacturing. But what will happen to this huge investment as Donald Trump enters office?
Jigar Shah is one of the best people to answer this question. As the director of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy, he has spent his career finding new ways to finance green infrastructure. And heâs more optimistic than you might expect about the road ahead.
In this conversation, guest host Robinson Meyer, a contributing writer for New York Times Opinion and the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, asks Shah for a progress check on decarbonization. They discuss what has changed about the economics and financing of clean energy; what has worked well in the green energy transition, as well as the trade-offs it has entailed; and what may or may not change as Trump enters office.
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âA Sword and a Shieldâ: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trumpâs Power
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because of a string of Supreme Court decisions in recent years. These decisions can be understood to have two functions: They give presidents a âswordâ to act more decisively and unilaterally, and a âshieldâ that protects them from prosecution against actions taken in their official capacity. What will these capacities mean for Trumpâs second term â especially as he has promised to radically transform the federal government?
Gillian Metzger is a professor at Columbia Law School who has studied the presidency, the administrative state and the Supreme Courtâs relationship to both. In this conversation, guest-hosted by Kate Shaw, a New York Times Opinion contributing writer and law professor, Metzger discusses two key Supreme Court cases â the Trump immunity case, which gave presidents broad protections from prosecution, and the Loper Bright Enterprises case, which overturned the Chevron doctrine, expanding judicial power. Shaw and Metzger also cover how much leeway Trump actually has to take some of the bolder executive actions heâs floated, including ending birthright citizenship; what still remains uncertain about the federal governmentâs regulatory powers in the post-Chevron regime; and more.
âThe Demise of Deference â And the Rise of Delegation to Interpret?â by Thomas W. Merrill
âThe DOGE Plan to Reform Governmentâ by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
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Creating the Administrative Constitution by Jerry L. Mashaw
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy by Daniel Carpenter
âCuration, Narration, Erasureâ by Karen M. Tani
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
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You Had a Lot of Questions About the Election
This is our first bonus content of the paywall era, a subscriber-only, election-themed âask me anything.â If you havenât subscribed and would like to, you can do that directly through Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or click here. If you donât want to subscribe, youâll still have an end-of-year âask me anythingâ coming down your feed â a mix of politics and things in life that, thankfully, arenât politics.
And if you do subscribe, thank you so much for supporting the show. We hope you enjoy this little extra for your money.
Thank you, also, to everyone who sent in questions. We read them all and wish we had time to get to more of them.
But in the time that we had, the showâs supervising editor, Claire Gordon, quizzed Ezra with listenersâ questions on the meaning of âthe working class,â whether an election that seemed to hinge on the economy could qualify as postmaterialist, the lessons he worries the Democrats will overlearn, his response to L.G.B.T.Q. voters who fear political backlash, what the election means for Israelâs war in Gaza, how blue cities should respond to their apparent electoral rebuke and more.
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was fact-checked by Michelle Harris and Mary Marge Locker. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Rahm Emanuel's Plan for a Democratic Comeback in 2026
Right after the election, I talked about how the results reminded me of 2004. George W. Bush won re-election that year â and unlike four years earlier, the popular vote, too. Democrats were truly, undeniably in the wilderness. But two years later, they found their way out. Democrats won the House for the first time in 12 years. And two years after that, with the election of Barack Obama, they completed their trifecta. Does that comeback story have any lessons for Democrats today?
Rahm Emanuel is the person to ask. He helped orchestrate that 2006 Democratic victory as the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He was Obamaâs first chief of staff. And before that, Emanuel was a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton. Emanuel has been a central player in most of the biggest Democratic victories of the past few decades. And people like David Axelrod and Steve Israel have been floating his name to lead the Democratic National Committee to help guide Democrats out of the wilderness once more. But Emanuel is also a controversial figure in the party. And the eras of Democratic politics he represents have complicated legacies and arenât remembered with unanimous warmth.
In this conversation, Emanuel argues that Democrats have fallen out of touch with what Americans actually want. We discuss why Democrats lost this November, what lessons theyâve forgotten from the Obama and Clinton years and how he would plot a Democratic comeback today.
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