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Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that far back. He left a 10 percent tariff on most of t...
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot more confusing. These aren’t the flat tariffs he...
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states — including California, Florida and Ohio — have passed bil...
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more efficient government? But “efficiency” obfuscates...
The Origins of Abundance
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the release of our new book “Abundance,” my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podcast, “Plain English,” to talk about it. We’re...
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 – an...
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to understand the economic logic of President Trump’s tariffs. In our last episode, we tried, but with limited success. And that might b...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wall Street thought Donald Trump was bluffing about his tariff plans. The stock market rallied after his election. But the reality has started setting...
There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approac...
This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty Test
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The economy has started blinking red. President Trump’s tariffs have been roiling markets. Consumer sentiment was already down. G.D.P. forecasts are...
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial general intelligence — an A.I. system that can beat humans at almost any cognitive task — is arriving in just a couple of years. That’...
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking for a single-sentence summation of the change in America’s foreign policy under Donald Trump, you could do worse than what Trump...
A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, when Donald Trump won the first time, a little-known book became an unexpected phenomenon. It was “The Revolt of the Public,” self-publis...
A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected] can find transcripts (post...
What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are moving into the next phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. Phase 1 was the blitz of executive actions. Now comes the response from the other pa...
What Elon Musk Wants
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk has been on a slash-and-burn tear through the federal government — gaining access to I.T. systems, dismantling U.S.A.I.D. and unleashing a...
The Breaking of the Constitutional Order
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are two pieces to this episode. First, a tour of what Donald Trump has done — and what he has backed down from doing — over the last few day...
Don't Believe Him
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.Thoughts? ...
MAGA’s Big Tech Divide
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA has long been hostile to Big Tech. So now that Big Tech is shifting rightward, what does that mean for MAGA?“We’re seeing a true political co...
Let’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just Did
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed a record 26 executive orders. Some of them were really big. Others feel more likely mes...
So That's What 'Make America Great Again' Means
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a quieter transition happening beneath the pageantry of this week’s inaugural events — a transition not of power per se but of the rules...
Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is a master at wielding attention. He’s been owning news cycles and squatting in Americans’ minds for much of the last decade. And for his s...
Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden wanted to show Americans that there was a better path than Trumpism. He worked to build a “foreign policy for the middle class.” He cent...
Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The preview we’ve had into Donald Trump’s second administration already feels, by American standards, disturbingly abnormal: Picking a former “F...
Burned Out? Start Here.
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I like to begin each year with an episode about something I’m working through more personally. And at the end of last year, the thing I needed to wo...
Best Of: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I have a tendency to end the year feeling pretty worn out. And that’s partly because I struggle to rest properly throughout the year, to build rest ...
What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot to process as 2024 draws to a close. In our end-of-year Ask Me Anything, the supervising editor of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Claire ...
Yes, Biden’s Green Future Can Still Happen Under Trump
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly half a trillion dollars of investment in green ene...
‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because of a string of Supreme Court decisions in recent ...
Best Of: How TV, Twitter and TikTok Remade Our Politics
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This election felt like the peak of the TV-ification of politics. There’s Trump, of course, who rose to national prominence as a reality-TV characte...
Best Of: Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was possible to see Donald Trump’s first election victory as some kind of fluke. But after the results of this election, it’s clear that Americ...
It's the Corruption, Stupid
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Right after the election, I talked about how the results reminded me of 2004. George W. Bush won re-election that year — and unlike four years earli...
Would Bernie Have Won?
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of different opinions about how the Democratic Party should rebuild after the blow of Donald Trump’s victory. And for the next two e...
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The core conflict in our politics right now is over institutions. Democrats defend them, while Republicans distrust them, and seek, in some cases, to ...
Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been watching since the election to see what timeline we’re in. And Donald Trump’s first wave of selections for appointees were pretty stra...
About the Coming Paywall
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a couple weeks, the archives of our show will only be available to subscribers. Here’s why that’s happening and what to expect. To learn more,...
Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political s...