Derek Thompson

And where the availability of homes is constricted, homelessness rises. As of 2023, the five states with the highest rates of homelessness are New York, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington. They're all run by Democrats. If Trump's opponents are going to win at the polls, they will need to build a new kind of political movement.

one that aims for what my co-author Ezra Klein and I call abundance. Ezra and I are liberals. There's no getting away from that. We believe in taxing and spending, on healthcare and social security and welfare and schools and science. But we also believe in a liberalism that is different in character from the one that's emerged in the last few decades.

one that aims for what my co-author Ezra Klein and I call abundance. Ezra and I are liberals. There's no getting away from that. We believe in taxing and spending, on healthcare and social security and welfare and schools and science. But we also believe in a liberalism that is different in character from the one that's emerged in the last few decades.

one that aims for what my co-author Ezra Klein and I call abundance. Ezra and I are liberals. There's no getting away from that. We believe in taxing and spending, on healthcare and social security and welfare and schools and science. But we also believe in a liberalism that is different in character from the one that's emerged in the last few decades.

In the last half century, we write, folks on the left became so fixated on spending money that they lost sight of what spending actually does in the world. This emphasis on process over outcomes, dollars over deployment, is evident everywhere you look.

In the last half century, we write, folks on the left became so fixated on spending money that they lost sight of what spending actually does in the world. This emphasis on process over outcomes, dollars over deployment, is evident everywhere you look.

In the last half century, we write, folks on the left became so fixated on spending money that they lost sight of what spending actually does in the world. This emphasis on process over outcomes, dollars over deployment, is evident everywhere you look.

In 2008, California approved more than $30 billion for a high-speed rail system that has lingered in construction purgatory for more than a decade. In San Francisco, procedural kludge famously drove up the cost of a public toilet to $1.7 million. Yes, for one toilet. Chicago's mayor recently bragged that his city invested $11 billion to build 10,000 affordable housing units.

In 2008, California approved more than $30 billion for a high-speed rail system that has lingered in construction purgatory for more than a decade. In San Francisco, procedural kludge famously drove up the cost of a public toilet to $1.7 million. Yes, for one toilet. Chicago's mayor recently bragged that his city invested $11 billion to build 10,000 affordable housing units.

In 2008, California approved more than $30 billion for a high-speed rail system that has lingered in construction purgatory for more than a decade. In San Francisco, procedural kludge famously drove up the cost of a public toilet to $1.7 million. Yes, for one toilet. Chicago's mayor recently bragged that his city invested $11 billion to build 10,000 affordable housing units.

That's $1.1 million per affordable housing unit. This is a shameful record of ineffectiveness. It's pathetic. The places where Democrats hold power shouldn't be advertisements for how bad they are at wielding it. If Democrats want to be the party that believes in government, they have to show that government can actually build what it intends to build.

That's $1.1 million per affordable housing unit. This is a shameful record of ineffectiveness. It's pathetic. The places where Democrats hold power shouldn't be advertisements for how bad they are at wielding it. If Democrats want to be the party that believes in government, they have to show that government can actually build what it intends to build.

That's $1.1 million per affordable housing unit. This is a shameful record of ineffectiveness. It's pathetic. The places where Democrats hold power shouldn't be advertisements for how bad they are at wielding it. If Democrats want to be the party that believes in government, they have to show that government can actually build what it intends to build.

What Ezra and I propose in our book is a political movement that does just that, a liberalism that works, a liberalism that builds. Today's guest is the New York Times' Ezra Klein. We talk about abundance, the book, and why it exists, and we talk about abundance, the idea. and why we think it matters. I'm Derek Thompson. This is Plain English. Ezra Klein, hello and welcome.

What Ezra and I propose in our book is a political movement that does just that, a liberalism that works, a liberalism that builds. Today's guest is the New York Times' Ezra Klein. We talk about abundance, the book, and why it exists, and we talk about abundance, the idea. and why we think it matters. I'm Derek Thompson. This is Plain English. Ezra Klein, hello and welcome.

What Ezra and I propose in our book is a political movement that does just that, a liberalism that works, a liberalism that builds. Today's guest is the New York Times' Ezra Klein. We talk about abundance, the book, and why it exists, and we talk about abundance, the idea. and why we think it matters. I'm Derek Thompson. This is Plain English. Ezra Klein, hello and welcome.

I am thrilled to be on Plain English. What a wonderful and rare opportunity to talk to you about abundance. This is exciting. We're gonna answer somewhere between 10,000 and 11 billion questions about this book in the next few weeks. So I wanted to hold this conversation to the relatively high bar of what can we talk about together here that other interviewers probably won't even think to ask us.

I am thrilled to be on Plain English. What a wonderful and rare opportunity to talk to you about abundance. This is exciting. We're gonna answer somewhere between 10,000 and 11 billion questions about this book in the next few weeks. So I wanted to hold this conversation to the relatively high bar of what can we talk about together here that other interviewers probably won't even think to ask us.

I am thrilled to be on Plain English. What a wonderful and rare opportunity to talk to you about abundance. This is exciting. We're gonna answer somewhere between 10,000 and 11 billion questions about this book in the next few weeks. So I wanted to hold this conversation to the relatively high bar of what can we talk about together here that other interviewers probably won't even think to ask us.

And the first thing that I thought of is that nobody else knows the story of why this book exists in the first place. So in my personal chronology, the story of this book starts in the fall of 2021. I am rolling off of book leave for a related but distinct project on the history of technological progress in America.