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Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It

Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It

Money is no longer the main driver of American politics, if it ever was.

26.01.2025 90

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The New Rules of the Trump Era

The New Rules of the Trump Era

Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.

22.01.2025 6

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Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.

Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.

The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.

19.01.2025 40

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Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?

Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?

Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, looks back on the hopes and realities of Bidenism.

15.01.2025 10

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Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’

Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’

The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump administration represents.

14.01.2025 60

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‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’

‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’

Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.

14.01.2025 550

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Burned Out? Start Here.

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to...

08.01.2025 50

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What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to...

26.12.2024 10

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‘A Sword and a Shield’: How the Supreme Court Supercharged Trump’s Power

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to...

18.12.2024 10

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It’s the Corruption, Stupid

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein Our last episode was with Faz Shakir, Bernie Sanders’s former campaign manager. And it...

03.12.2024 30

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Would Bernie Have Won?

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein As the Democratic Party debates where to go after its 2024 drubbing, we’re going to...

27.11.2024 70

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In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein In any political moment, where the rage collects, where the opposition rallies tells...

22.11.2024 3

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Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to...

19.11.2024 1

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Jared Polis Wants to Win Back the Hippies

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist It’s such a bother when politicians have to go and complicate your clean...

17.11.2024 20

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Success in 2022 Planted the Seeds of Failure in 2024

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist The 2022 election went better than Democrats could have hoped. The party...

10.11.2024 3

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Jon Stewart Looks Back With Sanity and/or Fear

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein transcript So you go back to the Tea Party moment in 2010 and in DC, the newest member...

04.11.2024 6

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This Election Pits the Guardians Against the Counterrevolutionaries

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist Imagine telling yourself, in 2012, that just three presidential elections...

03.11.2024 10

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Vivek Ramaswamy Has a Different Vision for Trumpism From JD Vance

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein transcript In 2020, very few people had heard the name Vivek Ramaswamy. Thus, before...

31.10.2024 3

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What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein This is a transcript of an audio essay, and we recommend listening to it in its...

22.10.2024 30

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The Hidden Politics of Disorder

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein During the pandemic, there was a rise in violent crime. But by 2023, violent crime was...

21.10.2024 10

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Ignore the Polls

They can’t tell you what you want to know.

13.10.2024 90

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How Biden’s Middle East Policy Fell Apart

The journalist Franklin Foer traced the Biden administration’s diplomacy in the Middle East since Oct. 7 and emerged with an “anatomy of a failure...

09.10.2024 300

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The Economy Is at a Hinge Moment

The economist Jason Furman discusses the economic fights that the next presidential administration will face.

07.10.2024 2

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Pete Buttigieg on 2024 and the ‘Crank Realignment’

The politician discusses how Democrats can rebuild trust.

24.09.2024 90

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Why Trump Can’t Shake Project 2025

The former president’s problem in the 2024 election is that he can no longer run as if he is a man alone.

22.09.2024 950

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Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran — and Itself

David Remnick discusses Israel’s overlapping conflicts after nearly a year of war.

21.09.2024 60

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Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones

The novelist on everything from the “amorphous” self to aging and mystery.

18.09.2024 1

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The Real ‘Border Czar’ Defends the Biden-Harris Record

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein Republicans want to label Kamala Harris as the border czar. And by just looking at a...

13.09.2024 400

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Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 2024 Election

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein Presidential elections are too vast and complicated to be about any one thing, but...

20.08.2024 40

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Trump Turned the Democratic Party Into a Pitiless Machine

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist “Many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread...

18.08.2024 30

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Nate Silver on Kamala Harris’s Chances and the Mistakes of the ‘Indigo Blob’

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein Nate Silver came to fame in American politics for election forecasting. But before...

13.08.2024 30

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Biden Made Trump Bigger. Harris Makes Him Smaller.

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist Kamala Harris has a very different theory of this election than Joe Biden...

11.08.2024 40

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Nancy Pelosi: ‘It Didn’t Sound Like Joe Biden to Me’

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein The remarkable thing about the past couple of months in politics has been watching the...

09.08.2024 50

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Is Tim Walz the Midwestern Dad Democrats Need?

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show By Ezra Klein I’ve watched a lot of presidential campaigns, and I can’t remember one in which the...

02.08.2024 90

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What Democrats Can Learn From Gretchen Whitmer

Advertisement Supported by The Ezra Klein Show We are deep in the pivotal week of Vice President Kamala Harris’s veepstakes. It is reported that...

30.07.2024 30

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Democratic Elites Were Slow to See What Voters Already Knew

Advertisement Supported by Ezra Klein By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist President Biden and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agree on this...

21.07.2024 70

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