*** Named a best podcast of 2021 by Time, Vulture, Esquire and The Atlantic. *** Each Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you... more
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as... more
In our recent series on artificial intelligence, I kept returning to a thought: This technology might be able to churn... more
There is so much we need to build right now. The housing crunch has spread across the country; by one... more
Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What... more
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content... more
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re... more
Donald Trump can seem like a political anomaly. You sometimes hear people describe his connection with his base in quasi-mystical... more
We’ll be back on Friday with a new episode. In the meantime, we wanted to share one of our favorite... more
American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave and sick days and heavily subsidize... more
For a long time, the story about the world’s population was that it was growing too quickly. There were going... more
President Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech last Thursday, offering his pitch for why he should be... more
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways... more
Marilynne Robinson is one of the great living novelists. She has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Humanities Medal,... more
Joe Biden’s presidency has been dominated by two foreign policy crises: the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The funding the... more
We received thousands of questions in response to last week’s audio essay arguing that Democrats should consider choosing a candidate... more
Last week on the show, I argued that the Democrats should pick their nominee at the Democratic National Convention in... more
Biden is faltering and Democrats have no plan B. There is another path to winning in 2024 — and I... more
For years, Agnes Callard has been on a mission to take ethical philosophy out of the ivory tower. She examines... more
“If only we had a partner for peace.” That’s been the refrain in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for as long as I’ve... more
Around 40 percent of people who marry eventually get a divorce. Almost half of children are born to unmarried women.... more
Political analysts used to say that the Democratic Party was riding a demographic wave that would lead to an era... more
If you’re a Democrat, how worried should you be right now? It’s strangely hard to answer that question. On the... more
It’s been just over 100 days since Hamas’s attack on Israel, and the costs of the war are staggering. In... more
The fact that Donald Trump is the front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination in 2024 has created a chasm in our... more
There’s this incredible dissonance at the center of our politics right now. On the one hand, all the polling suggests... more
Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms,... more
I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all, is just the sum total of... more
“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller. He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors power... more
The holidays are one of the most social times of the year, filled with parties and family get-togethers. Many of... more
It’s become something of a tradition on “The Ezra Klein Show” to end the year with an “Ask Me Anything”... more
Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms, it’s become... more