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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.
Mentioned:
âThe Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalismâ by Ezra Klein
Book Recommendations:
âHow Mathematics Built the Modern Worldâ by Bo Malmberg and Hannes Malmberg
Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair 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 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.
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What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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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.
Mentioned:
âThe Situation: Whatâs Going on at the FBI?â by Benjamin Wittes
Book Recommendations:
A Survivorâs Education by Joy Neumeyer
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Race and Reunion by David W. Blight
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes 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.
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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.
Mentioned:
âWhatâs Wrong With Donald Trump?â by Ezra Klein
âThe Men and (No) Women Facebook of Facebook Managementâ by Kara Swisher
Book Recommendations:
North Woods by Daniel Mason
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Elias Isquith and Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair 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 and Kristin Lin. 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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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.
Mentioned:
âDonât Believe Himâ by Ezra Klein
Book Recommendations:
The Rhetorical Presidency by Jeffrey K. Tulis
Why Congress by Philip Wallach
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Elias Isquith and Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. 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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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.
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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.
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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.
Recommendations:
Regime Change by Patrick Deneen
âGodâs Socialistâ by Darryl Cooper
Between Two Fires by Stephen Pyne
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair 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, 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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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.
Book Recommendations:
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
Left Adrift by Timothy Shenk
Why Nothing Works by Marc J. Dunkelman
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Rollin Hu and Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair 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 Elias Isquith and Kristin Lin. 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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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.
Mentioned:
âWhatâs Wrong with Donald Trump?â by Ezra Klein
âDemocrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.â by The Ezra Klein Show, with Chris Hayes
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Claire Gordon. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair. 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.
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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.
Mentioned:
âYour Mind Is Being Frackedâ by The Ezra Klein Show with D. Graham Burnett
âThe Great Crypto Crashâ by Annie Lowrey
Book Recommendations:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Jack McCordick. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. 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 and Kristin Lin. 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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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.
Mentioned:
Brookings speech
Book Recommendations:
Science, the Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes 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.
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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 a the co-author, with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright, 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.
Book Recommendations:
Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks
Autocracy Rising by Javier Corrales
The Trumpiad by Cody Walker
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected].
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. 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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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.
Mentioned:
âHow Millennials Became The Burnout Generationâ by Anne Helen Petersen
Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
âStop. Breathe. We Canât Keep Working Like This.â with Cal Newport on âThe Ezra Klein Showâ
âThe Man Who Knew Too Littleâ by Sam Dolnick
Book Recommendations:
The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa
Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield
Death by Joan Tollifson
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 Kristin Lin. 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, Elias Isquith 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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I have a tendency to end the year feeling pretty worn out. And thatâs partly because I struggle to rest properly throughout the year, to build rest into a routine and stick to it.
Thatâs how I was feeling at the end of 2022, when we originally taped this episode. And itâs certainly how Iâm feeling at the end of this year, so this felt like a valuable episode to revisit.
Judith Shulevitzâs wonderful book, âThe Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time,â draws out lessons from the Jewish ritual of the Sabbath that everyone can benefit from, regardless of whether youâre Jewish or religious at all. The Sabbath, as commonly practiced, involves taking a day a week off from work, turning off your phone and spending a lot of time with family and your community. To Shulevitz, thereâs a radicalism in this ritual â a stinging critique of the speed at which we live our lives, the ways we choose to spend our time and how we think about the idea of rest itself. She sees the Sabbath as more than just taking a break from the world, but also as an act of creating a different one. I left the conversation feeling awed by how such an ancient practice can contain wisdom that feels so urgent right now. I hope you enjoy â and that at the end of this year, you find time for some true rest.
Mentioned:
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
I and Thou by Martin Buber
Book Recommendations:
Adam Bede by George Eliot
The Seven Day Circle by Eviatar Zerubavel
On the Clock by Emily Guendelsberger
Thoughts? Email us at [email protected]. Guest suggestions? Fill out this form.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. 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 Emefa Agawu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. The showâs production time 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.
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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.
Mentioned:
âMagical Tree Creaturesâ by Pat McCusker
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. 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.
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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.
Book Recommendations:
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Romney by McKay Coppins
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by Rollin Hu [Who]. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Isaac Jones, with Efim Shapiro and Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The showâs production team also includes 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.
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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
Book recommendations
Creating the Administrative Constitution by Jerry L. Mashaw
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy by Daniel Carpenter
âCuration, Narration, Erasureâ by Karen M. Tani
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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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This election felt like the peak of the TV-ification of politics. Thereâs Trump, of course, who rose to national prominence as a reality-TV character and is a master of visual stagecraft. And while Trumpâs cabinet picks in his first term were described as out of central casting, this time he wants to staff some positions directly from the worlds of TV and entertainment: Pete Hegseth, his choice to run the Pentagon, was a host on âFox and Friends Weekendâ; his proposed education secretary, Linda McMahon, was the former C.E.O. of W.W.E.; Mehmet Oz, star of the long-running âThe Dr. Oz Show,â is his pick to run Medicare and Medicaid; and heâs tapped Elon Musk, one of the most powerful figures in American culture, to lead a government efficiency effort.
Two years ago, we released an episode that helps explain why politics and entertainment are converging like this. Itâs with my old Vox colleague Sean Illing, host of âThe Gray Area,â looking at the work of two media theorists, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, who uncannily predicted what weâre seeing now decades ago.
And so I wanted to share this episode again now, because itâs really worth stepping back and looking at this moment through the lens of the media thatâs shaping it. In his book âThe Paradox of Democracy,â Illing and his co-author, Zac Gershberg, put it this way: âItâs better to think of democracy less as a government type and more as an open communicative culture.â So what does our communicative culture â our fragmented mix of cable news, X, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp and podcasts â mean for our democracy?
This episode contains strong language.
Mentioned:
ââFlood the zone with shitâ: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracyâ by Sean Illing
âQuantifying partisan news diets in Web and TV audiencesâ by Daniel Muise, Homa Hosseinmardi, Baird Howland, Markus Mobius, David Rothschild and Duncan J. Watts
Book Recommendations:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ was produced by RogĂ© Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Sonia Herrero, Carole Sabouraud and Isaac Jones. Our production team also includes Elias Isquith, Kristin Lin, Jack McCordick and Aman Sahota. 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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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.
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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.
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It was possible to see Donald Trumpâs first election victory as some kind of fluke. But after the results of this election, itâs clear that America is living in the Trump era. And for Americans whoâve struggled to process this fact, you have lots of company around the world. From Hungary to Brazil, right-wing figures with openly authoritarian goals have been voted into power, to the concern of many of the people who live there.
A political phenomenon that spans countries like this â especially countries with such different levels of wealth, political systems and cultures â requires an explanation that spans countries, too.
So we wanted to re-air this episode that originally published in November 2022, because it offers exactly that kind of theory. Pippa Norris is a political scientist at Harvardâs Kennedy School of Government. Sheâs written dozens of books on topics ranging from comparative political institutions to right-wing parties and the decline of religion. In 2019, she and Ronald Inglehart published âCultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism,â which gives the best explanation of the far rightâs rise that Iâve read. And it feels so much more relevant now in this country, after Trumpâs decisive election.
In this conversation, we discuss what Norris calls the âsilent revolution in cultural valuesâ that has occurred across advanced democracies in recent decades, why the âtransgressive aestheticâ of leaders like Trump and Brazilâs Jair Bolsonaro is so central to their appeal, the role that economic anxiety and insecurity play in fueling right-wing backlashes and more.
Mentioned:
Sacred and Secular by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
âExploring drivers of vote choice and policy positions among the American electorateâ
Book Recommendations:
Popular Dictatorships by Aleksandar Matovski
Spin Dictators by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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This episode of âThe Ezra Klein Showâ is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Roge Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.
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