Ezra Klein

It’s not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.

We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But that is only part of the story.

There’s a better way to do email.

The best line in Biden’s State of the Union was a surprise.

They’re built to win in 2024. But what happens afterward?

Israel is losing the support of a generation, not just a few student groups. And it is losing it because of what it does, not what it is.

The middle is collapsing in media.

Most of them didn’t appear this year.

Science fiction writers and A.I. researchers have long feared the machine you can’t turn off.

The reactionary futurism of Marc Andreessen.

Is it impossible for liberalism to build?

The administration is thickly populated with veterans of the Obama and Clinton White Houses. But it doesn’t see itself in comfortable continuity with those legacies.

Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Gavin Newsom wants to build. Not everyone is on board.

DeSantis is trying to show that he has both the will and the discipline to do what Trump did not.

There is no obvious question about the country’s fiscal future that the Republican Party’s current policies propose an answer to.

To make good on its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.

The limit Congress imposes is dumb, but Biden can’t just wave it away.

This is too important to leave to Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

Trouble comes when Democrats try to do everything everywhere all at once.

Banking is a critical form of public infrastructure that we pretend is a private act of risk management.

I have tried to spend time regularly with the people working on A.I. I don’t know that I can convey just how weird that culture is.

We are so stuck on asking what the technology can do that we are missing the more important questions.

The oldest president has an argument about the future.

Why was America — and not just America — better at building in the 1970s?

I, for one, am still loyal to my childhood haunt.

Remember when it was ‘Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line'? Me neither.

We’ve lost sight of the world that abundant, clean energy could make possible.

We need a thoughtful alternative that doesn’t exist yet.

The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried helps us see the movement’s vices, but that shouldn’t blind us to its virtues, either.

Calcification, political parity and cultural backlash brought us where we are.

Here comes the G.O.P.’s calamity caucus

Looking at the midterms as a referendum.

Developing affordable housing projects shouldn’t make a miserable existence for those who’ve devoted their lives to it.

A lot of politicians would have vied with Trump to make the election about them.

The case for a progressive levy on consumption.

A liberalism that is as ambitious about solving problems through invention as it is through redistribution would be powerful indeed.

The president’s legacy — and our climate future — will turn on what actually gets built, and how fast.

How we look matters as much as what we see.

Inflation has unmasked the depths of our affordability crisis.

Biden’s Supreme Court commission report offers a thorough and at times exciting way to think about court reform.

America’s age of norms is over.

Possible U.F.O. sightings, A.I. breakthroughs and the Jan. 6 hearings all help us understand how hard it to grasp what is happening right in front of us.

Congestion pricing in Manhattan should have happened years ago. The reason it hasn’t is instructive.

The green future has to be a welcoming one, even a thrilling one.

You can’t transform the economy without first transforming the government.

The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest.

Elon Musk reveals what he wants Twitter to be by how he acts on it.

The death of Biden’s child tax credit expansion is an American tragedy. Can it be revived?

Jamelle Bouie, Ezra Klein and Jane Coaston join Lulu Garcia-Navarro to discuss culture-war legislation, political strategy and sanctions on Russia.

Ukraine’s refusal to bend the knee to Vladimir Putin has reminded the West that life under liberalism is worth fighting for.

A legal dispute over enrollment at Berkeley shows how the old ways of environmentalism won’t cut it in a new era of climate crisis.

A discussion on the Russian president’s motivations, the West’s response and how the conflict could play out.

A Biden doctrine is emerging, even if he got only halfway there in his State of the Union address.

“The current humanitarian crisis could kill far more Afghans than the past 20 years of war.”

They need to realize that America’s future does not lie in Europe’s past.

Public health is rooted in the soil of trust.

The problems the president is facing are an almost perfect inversion of the problems Obama faced.

Fury alone won’t destroy Trumpism. We need a Plan B.

How we treat farm animals today will be seen as a defining moral failing of our age.

His forecasting model shows a looming disaster for Senate Democrats. Are they going to do anything about it?

The left needs to think as much about supply as it does about demand. 

The torrent of policy the governor and the legislature are passing amounts to nothing less than a Green New Deal for the Golden State.

Our ignominious exit reflects the failure of America’s foreign policy establishment at both prediction and policymaking.

It almost derailed the bipartisan infrastructure bill’s passage.

The Covid endgame continues to elude us.

To reach herd immunity, we need a different approach. 

Where is the urgency on climate change?

Most Californians want no part of this nonsense.

When experts from other countries look at “the oldest democracy,” they don’t like what they see. 

Ezra Klein and four environmental thinkers discuss the limits of politics in facing down the threat to the planet.

In his own way, the Democratic senator from West Virginia is a political magician. What does he have up his sleeve now?

Why do we leave millions of people in poverty? The answer should make us uncomfortable.

He isn’t afraid of being a politician.

For my latest episode, I spoke with former President Barack Obama about how he believes America has changed since his time in office.

How would contact with U.F.O.s and other civilizations change ours?

Bipartisanship is overrated.

It wouldn’t actually take that much of an investment for Biden to get us headed in the right direction.

Social media companies and other organizations are looking out for themselves.

It’s unexpected, but it’s not inexplicable.

The debate among doctors, epidemiologists and economists is still going strong.

A very promising mental health experiment is taking shape in Oregon.

True democracy is within our grasp.

If you can dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy.

We don’t realize how fragile the basic infrastructure of our civilization is.

Punishing mothers for needing help cannot be the answer. A generous child allowance might be.

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?

No one would ever design a legislative body that worked this way.

I hope that a year from now this is a piece people point to as an overreaction. I hope.

You don’t get re-elected for things voters don’t know about.

It is infuriating that the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.

By enabling the president anyway, Republican elites helped make the storming of the Capitol possible.

An excerpt from “Why We’re Polarized,” by Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein’s “Why We’re Polarized” seeks to explain what has changed in our electoral politics and why our differences are so hard to overcome.

Polarization has changed the two parties — just not in the same way.