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37 episodes transcribedAfter 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 happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (post...
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 part...
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 f...
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 days. T...
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? Gues...
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 coalit...
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 messa...
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 aroun...
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 secon...
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 centered...
The preview we’ve had into Donald Trump’s second administration already feels, by American standards, disturbingly abnormal: Picking a former “Fox and...
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 work...
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 in...
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 Gordon,...
In 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly half a trillion dollars of investment in green ene...
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because of a string of Supreme Court decisions in recent...
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 character...
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 America is...
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 earlier...
