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How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

15.10.2025 4

The New York Times

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Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.

12.10.2025 30

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What the Shutdown Is Really About

Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the shutdown’s policy...

08.10.2025 40

The New York Times

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A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for...

03.10.2025 10

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein on the show to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this...

28.09.2025 100

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Trump Is Building the Blue Scare

The political theorist Corey Robin walks through the history of the Red Scare and the “fractured mirror” it is to Trump’s attack on the...

24.09.2025 9

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink

The Utah governor is trying to model a different kind of leadership in a very dangerous political moment.

19.09.2025 30

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We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other

Ben Shapiro and I discuss the state — and stakes — of political disagreement in America.

16.09.2025 50

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Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything.

11.09.2025 950

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Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.

07.09.2025 90

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The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump’s Power Grab

The legal scholar Kate Shaw discusses Donald Trump’s recent winning streak with the Supreme Court and what it means for the state of Constitution.

02.09.2025 50

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Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

The journalist Radley Balko explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army.

28.08.2025 90

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How ChatGPT Surprised Me

What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them in many cases to our fellow humans?

24.08.2025 20

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MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question

Rachael Bedard and David Wallace-Wells on Covid disillusionment and the rise of the MAHA movement.

22.08.2025 40

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Your Questions (and Criticisms) of Our Recent Shows

Ezra Klein discusses reactions to his recent episodes with Mahmoud Khalil, Philippe Sands and Yoram Hazony.

21.08.2025 6

The New York Times

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Trump vs. the U.S. Economy

Natasha Sarin walks through how Trump’s tariffs, the A.I. boom and the leadership shake-up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are impacting the...

16.08.2025 20

The New York Times

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When Is It Genocide?

Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law.

13.08.2025 40

The New York Times

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Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story

The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in America.

05.08.2025 60

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The Book That Explains JD Vance’s Worldview

Yoram Hazony, the author of “The Virtue of Nationalism,” discusses the principles of national conservatism.

01.08.2025 40

The New York Times

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Is Decarbonization Dead?

Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable...

25.07.2025 50

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Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another

The consensus that held them together for generations is breaking down.

20.07.2025 300

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Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein

The journalist Will Sommer examines the perfect storm of the Epstein files, Trump, QAnon and MAGA.

18.07.2025 100

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Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?

The psychiatrist Mark Epstein shares his insights about the mind after decades of working with patients and practicing Buddhism.

11.07.2025 9

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How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us

The economics writer Kyla Scanlon on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more.

08.07.2025 20

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The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate

Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would gut Medicaid, nutrition assistance and clean energy credits. All for what?

02.07.2025 70

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Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

The MSNBC anchor — and native New Yorker — Chris Hayes considers what Democrats can learn from the mayoral primary.

29.06.2025 10

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A New Middle East?

The scholar and diplomat Aaron David Miller unpacks what Trump’s bombing means for Iran, Israel and the U.S.

26.06.2025 40

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Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall?

The transformation of Gowanus tells a story we need to hear.

18.06.2025 100

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How to Beat Back Trump on Trans Rights — and Much Else

Representative Sarah McBride reckons with the trans rights movement’s shortcomings, and how to win hearts and minds through a politics of grace.

17.06.2025 50

The New York Times

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Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in Gaza

The former prime minister of Israel discusses why he believes Israel’s war in Gaza can no longer be justified.

12.06.2025 100

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The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past.

08.06.2025 40

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Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’

The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner, and how to hold radically different feelings at once.

01.06.2025 9

The New York Times

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How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump

Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Jake Tapper examines the people and institutions that made the former president’s re-election campaign possible.

22.05.2025 80

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One Moment That Foretold It All

The most consequential day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began.

04.05.2025 100

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The Emergency Is Here

Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

18.04.2025 750

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‘You Try to Build Anything, and You’re Stepping Into Quicksand’

Speed is a progressive virtue.

13.04.2025 50

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Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’

The trade economist Paul Krugman parses the ‘layers of wrongness’ in Trump’s tariff policy.

05.04.2025 70

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‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.

01.04.2025 3

The New York Times

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What is DOGE’s Real Goal?

Santi Ruiz, a senior editor at the Institute for Progress, examines what DOGE has been trying to accomplish in its first few months.

25.03.2025 40

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Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won

The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.

18.03.2025 30

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Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?

The Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett discusses what Trump’s plan to ‘detox’ the economy is actually meant to achieve.

14.03.2025 40

The New York Times

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Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work

The economist Kimberly Clausing explains the possible costs and consequences of Trump’s tariffs.

12.03.2025 30

The New York Times

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There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk

Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their...

09.03.2025 200

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The Government Knows A.G.I. is Coming

The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all...

04.03.2025 10

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The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign Policy

The journalist Fareed Zakaria discusses the worldview emerging from Trump’s foreign policy decisions regarding Ukraine, Gaza, China and beyond.

01.03.2025 4

The New York Times

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A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politics

Martin Gurri discusses how social media and the internet have fundamentally changed the public’s relationship to institutions and power.

25.02.2025 20

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A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently

Congressman Jake Auchincloss discusses how the Democratic Party can offer meaningful alternatives to voters.

18.02.2025 7

The New York Times

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The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours

What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?

16.02.2025 100

The New York Times

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What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?

Quinta Jurecic discusses the constitutional crisis that the Trump administration could trigger.

12.02.2025 100

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What Elon Musk Wants

The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk's goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

07.02.2025 100

The New York Times

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