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*** Named a best podcast of 2021 by Time, Vulture, Esquire and The Atlantic. *** Each Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

Episodes

Date	Title	Status
10/31/23	If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?	Transcribed
10/27/23	The Conflicted Legacy of Mitt Romney	Transcribed
10/24/23	The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once	Transcribed
10/18/23	Israel Is Giving Hamas What It Wants	Transcribed
10/10/23	A Very Queer Conversation About Gender	Transcribed
10/3/23	Your Guide to the New Right	Transcribed
9/26/23	Two Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s Indictments	Transcribed
9/19/23	A Skeptical Look at ‘Self-Care’	Transcribed
9/12/23	America’s Top Librarian on the Rise of Book Bans	Transcribed
9/5/23	What Have We Learned From a Summer of Climate Reckoning?	Transcribed
8/29/23	Are We Remembering the Pandemic All Wrong?	Transcribed
8/22/23	When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Collide	Transcribed
8/15/23	This Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their Distrust	Transcribed
8/8/23	A Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016	Transcribed
8/1/23	How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment	Transcribed
7/25/23	Biden, Psychedelics, Twitter, My New Book — and So Much More	Transcribed
7/21/23	Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia	Transcribed
7/18/23	What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades	Transcribed
7/14/23	What Tom Hanks Thinks of America	Transcribed
7/11/23	A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.	Transcribed
7/7/23	This Taught Me a Lot About How Decarbonization Is Really Going	Transcribed
7/4/23	Best Of: A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings	Transcribed
6/30/23	What’s Really Going On in Russia?	Transcribed
6/27/23	How ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Better Humans	Transcribed
6/23/23	Why This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000	Transcribed
6/20/23	What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Stories?	Transcribed
6/16/23	Why Do So Few Democrats Want Biden to Run in 2024?	Transcribed
6/13/23	What We Learned Reading Ron DeSantis's Books	Transcribed
6/9/23	What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal	Transcribed
6/6/23	The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read	Transcribed
6/4/23	Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind	Transcribed
6/2/23	Fareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much More	Transcribed
5/30/23	Matter of Opinion: A Look at the 2024 G.O.P. Primary Field	Transcribed
5/26/23	If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’	Transcribed
5/23/23	The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2	Transcribed
5/19/23	The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1	Transcribed
5/16/23	A Libertarian and I Debate the Debt Ceiling	Transcribed
5/12/23	Best Of: A Weird, Wonderful Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson	Transcribed
5/9/23	Best Of: Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’	Transcribed
5/5/23	Best Of: How the Fed Is ‘Shaking the Entire System’	Transcribed
5/2/23	The Culture Creating A.I. Is Weird. Here’s Why That Matters.	Transcribed
4/28/23	Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in California	Transcribed
4/25/23	Best Of: The War Within the Republican Party	Transcribed
4/21/23	Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty	Transcribed
4/18/23	We’ve Built Our World for Loneliness. We Could Rebuild for Community.	Transcribed
4/14/23	This Philosopher Wants Liberals to Take Political Power Seriously	Transcribed
4/11/23	What Biden’s Top A.I. Thinker Concluded We Should Do	Transcribed
4/7/23	Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy	Transcribed
4/4/23	The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World	Transcribed
3/31/23	Best Of: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe	Transcribed
3/28/23	Trump’s Legal Jeopardy and America’s Political Crossroads	Transcribed
3/24/23	A Radical Way of Thinking About Money	Transcribed
3/21/23	Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.	Transcribed
3/19/23	My View on A.I.	Transcribed
3/16/23	Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes Next	Transcribed
3/14/23	Three Years, Three Very Different Lenses on China	Transcribed
3/10/23	The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright	Transcribed
3/7/23	If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants	Transcribed
3/3/23	The Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World	Transcribed
2/28/23	The New Weight Loss Drugs and the Old Weight Gain Myths	Transcribed
2/24/23	Is A.I. Actually Creative? Are We?	Transcribed
2/21/23	This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain	Transcribed
2/17/23	The Inflation Story Has Changed Dramatically. Paul Krugman Breaks It Down.	Transcribed
2/14/23	The ‘Subprime Attention Crisis’ at the Heart of the Internet	Transcribed
2/10/23	Rick Rubin’s Guide to Art — and Life	Transcribed
2/7/23	How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling Government	Transcribed
2/3/23	Best Of: Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States	Transcribed
1/31/23	First Person: How the Left Is Cannibalizing Its Own Power	Transcribed
1/27/23	Is This How a Cold War With China Begins?	Transcribed
1/24/23	There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is Governed	Transcribed
1/20/23	How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party	Transcribed
1/16/23	A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings	Transcribed
1/13/23	A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises	Transcribed
1/10/23	Dan Savage on Where the Sexual Revolution Went Wrong	Transcribed
1/6/23	A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution	Transcribed
1/3/23	Sabbath and the Art of Rest	Transcribed
12/30/22	Best Of: How America's Poet Laureate Sees Our World	Transcribed
12/27/22	Best Of: Want to Save Democracy? Run For Office.
12/23/22	Best Of: Who Wins — and Who Loses — in the A.I. Revolution?
12/20/22	Best Of: Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
12/16/22	What I'm Thinking About at the End of 2022
12/13/22	Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think
12/9/22	Three Signals We’ve Entered a New Economic Era
12/6/22	There’s Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets Made
12/2/22	A Conservative’s Take on the Chaotic State of the Republican Party
11/29/22	The Hidden Costs of Cheap Meat
11/22/22	This Conversation About the 'Reading Mind' Is a Gift
11/15/22	Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the Planet
11/10/22	I Don’t Quite Buy the DeSantis Narrative, and Other Midterm Thoughts
11/8/22	George Saunders on the ‘Braindead Megaphone’ That Makes Our Politics So Awful
11/4/22	Inflation Does More Than Raise Prices. It Destroys Governments.
11/1/22	A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
10/28/22	These Political Scientists Surveyed 500,000 Voters. Here Are Their Unnerving Conclusions.
10/25/22	A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Trump Enabler
10/21/22	There’s Been a ‘Regime Change’ in How Democrats Think About Elections
10/18/22	A Legendary World-Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
10/14/22	What Rachel Maddow Has Been Thinking About Offscreen
10/11/22	Hard Fork: Elon’s Hidden Motives + A Meetup in the Metaverse
10/7/22	How the Fed Is ‘Shaking the Entire System’
10/4/22	When You Can’t Trust the Stories Your Mind Is Telling
9/30/22	Ethereum’s Founder on What Crypto Can — and Can’t — Do
9/27/22	We Know So Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
9/23/22	Why Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine
9/20/22	The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard
9/16/22	Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build It
9/13/22	We Build Civilizations on Status. But We Barely Understand It.
9/10/22	Opinion Roundtable: Behind America’s Public School Battles
9/6/22	The Subtle Art of Appreciating ‘Difficult Beauty’
9/2/22	Best Of: This Conversation With Richard Powers Is a Gift
8/30/22	A Grammy-Nominated Singer Performs and Explores Music's Power
8/26/22	Best Of: Margaret Atwood on the Bible and the Future
8/23/22	Why the Evangelical Movement Is in ‘Disarray’ After Dobbs
8/19/22	Best of: A Life-Changing Philosophy of Games
8/16/22	The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work.
8/12/22	How Do We Face Loss With Dignity?
8/9/22	Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life
8/5/22	Gender Is Complicated for All of Us. Let’s Talk About It.
8/2/22	The Argument: Who Can Write About What?
7/29/22	Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions
7/26/22	The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming
7/22/22	A Top Mental Health Expert on Where America Went Wrong
7/19/22	Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States
7/15/22	A Weird, Wonderful Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson
7/12/22	First Person: To Fight for Ukraine’s Freedom, He Went Back Into the Closet
7/8/22	Michelle Goldberg Grapples With Feminism After Roe
7/5/22	Liberals Need a Clearer Vision of the Constitution. Here’s What It Could Look Like.
7/1/22	A Guide to the Supreme Court's Rightward Shift
6/28/22	The Supreme Court Went Off the Rails Long Before Dobbs
6/26/22	The Dobbs Decision Isn’t Just About Abortion. It’s About Power.
6/24/22	The Case for Prosecuting Trump
6/21/22	Two Years Later, We Still Don’t Understand Long Covid. Why?
6/17/22	The End of 'The Everything Bubble'
6/14/22	Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions Answered
6/10/22	Socialism Is Supposed to Be a Working-Class Movement. Why Isn’t It?
6/7/22	Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’
6/3/22	A Conservative's View on Democrats' Biggest Weakness
5/31/22	Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right
5/27/22	Best Of: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
5/24/22	A Conversation With Ada Limón, in Six Poems
5/20/22	The Ethics of Abortion
5/17/22	Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism
5/13/22	What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want?
5/10/22	Sway: 'Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows' in Ukraine
5/6/22	Donald Trump Didn’t Hijack the G.O.P. He Understood It.
5/3/22	The Argument: Why the G.O.P. Can't Stop Saying 'Gay'
4/29/22	Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That's a Good Thing.
4/26/22	Putin May Not Like How He’s Changed Europe
4/22/22	Emily St. John Mandel on Time Travel, Parenting and the Apocalypse
4/19/22	Can Democrats Turn Their 2022 Around?
4/15/22	Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
4/12/22	A Ukrainian Philosopher on What Putin Never Understood About Ukraine
4/8/22	Fiona Hill on Whether Ukraine Can Win — and What Happens if Russia Loses
4/5/22	The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I've Heard
4/1/22	Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.
3/29/22	I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He’s Not?
3/25/22	Margaret Atwood on Stories, Deception and the Bible
3/22/22	How Energy Markets Are Shaping Putin’s Invasion — and the World
3/18/22	A Realist Take on How the Russia-Ukraine War Could End
3/15/22	Timothy Snyder on the Myths That Blinded the West to Putin’s Plans
3/11/22	Masha Gessen on Putin’s 'Profoundly Anti-Modern’ Worldview
3/8/22	Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really Fighting
3/4/22	Fareed Zakaria Has a Better Way to Handle Russia — and China
3/1/22	Can the West Stop Russia by Strangling its Economy?
2/25/22	A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
2/22/22	Best Of: Stop. Breathe. We Can’t Keep Working Like This.
2/18/22	A Critique of Government That Liberals Need to Hear
2/15/22	Relationships Are Hard. This Unusual Parenting Theory Can Help.
2/11/22	It's Not Your Fault You Can't Pay Attention. Here's Why.
2/8/22	What the Heck Is Going on With the U.S. Economy?
2/4/22	Let’s Talk About How Truly Bizarre Our Supreme Court Is
2/1/22	Democrats Chase Shiny Objects. Here's How to Build Real Power.
1/25/22	Learning to Listen to the Voices Only You Hear
1/21/22	The View From the White House
1/18/22	The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven’t Learned
1/11/22	Chris Hayes on How Biden Can Have a Better 2022
1/4/22	Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking
12/28/21	Best Of: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I.
12/21/21	Best Of: Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
12/14/21	Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning
12/7/21	Families Are Drowning in Care Costs. Here’s How To Change That.
12/3/21	Predicting the Future Is Possible. ‘Superforecasters’ Know How.
11/30/21	Best Of: How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
11/23/21	Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?
11/19/21	The Case Against Loving Your Job
11/16/21	Are We Witnessing the Mainstreaming of White Power in America?
11/12/21	It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?
11/9/21	Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life
11/5/21	Best Of: How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves
11/2/21	The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt
10/29/21	Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party
10/26/21	Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicine
10/22/21	What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like
10/19/21	The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught in School
10/15/21	A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic Walk Into a Podcast Studio
10/12/21	Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
10/8/21	Let's Talk About the Anxiety Freedom Can Cause
10/5/21	How to Do the Most Good
10/1/21	Eric Adams Has a Message for the Democratic Party
9/28/21	This Conversation With Richard Powers Is a Gift
9/24/21	Opinion Crossover: California Republicans, Facebook and Media Navelgazing
9/21/21	We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World
9/17/21	Economics Needs to Reckon With What It Doesn’t Know
9/14/21	How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’
9/10/21	Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
9/7/21	Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We?
9/3/21	This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden
8/31/21	Ask Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties, Reading and More
8/27/21	The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have
8/24/21	This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
8/20/21	The Argument: Should We Say "Hi" to Aliens?
8/17/21	Best of: George Saunders on Kindness in a Cruel World
8/13/21	How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Party
8/10/21	We’re Living in the World the War on Terror Built
8/6/21	The Good and Bad News About the Delta Variant
8/3/21	41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
7/30/21	Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
7/27/21	Ross Douthat Has Been ‘Radicalized a Little Bit, Too’
7/23/21	How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
7/20/21	Our Workplaces Think We’re Computers. We’re Not.
7/16/21	Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives—and Liberals—Get Wrong About Antiracism
7/13/21	How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves
7/9/21	Critical Race Theory, Comic Books and the Power of Public Schools
7/6/21	Best of: What ‘Drained-Pool’ Politics Costs America
7/2/21	Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Wants You to Be Bad at Something. It’s for Your Own Good.
6/29/21	Why Do We Work So Damn Much?
6/25/21	Republicans Are Setting Off a ‘Doom Loop’ for Democracy
6/22/21	Sarah Schulman’s Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change
6/18/21	Welcome to the ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ Economy
6/15/21	The Freeing of the American Mind
6/11/21	Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power
6/8/21	Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
6/4/21	Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
6/1/21	Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’
5/28/21	Sway: How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin
5/25/21	The Argument: Should We Cancel Student Loan Debt?
5/21/21	Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?
5/18/21	The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent
5/14/21	Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
5/11/21	Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question
5/7/21	Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About Inequality
5/4/21	How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things
4/30/21	How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters
4/27/21	Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture
4/23/21	Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life
4/20/21	That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can Unlearn.
4/16/21	Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’
4/13/21	Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone
4/9/21	The Best Explanation of Biden's Thinking I’ve Heard
4/6/21	Did the Boomers Ruin America? A Debate.
4/2/21	Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution
3/30/21	The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’
3/26/21	A Top G.O.P. Pollster on Trump 2024, QAnon and What Republicans Really Want
3/23/21	An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders
3/19/21	Andrew Cuomo and the Performance of Power
3/16/21	Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything.
3/12/21	How America’s Covid-19 Nightmare Ends
3/9/21	What Does Toxic Stress Do to Children?
3/5/21	Stop. Breathe. We Can’t Keep Working Like This.
3/2/21	What a More Responsible Republican Party Would Look Like
2/26/21	How the Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone's Crisis
2/23/21	A Radical Proposal for True Democracy
2/19/21	What It Means to be Kind in a Cruel World
2/16/21	What ‘Drained-Pool’ Politics Costs America
2/12/21	The Senate Is Making a Mockery of Itself
2/9/21	Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?
2/5/21	An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the G.O.P.
2/2/21	To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Systems
1/29/21	What’s Happening to Our Economy Is Like a Natural Disaster
1/26/21	The Man With the Plan to Beat the Pandemic
1/13/21	Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show