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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? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.

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Is It Time to Break the Two-Party System?

May 19, 2026 1h 14m

We have entered a world of maximum gerrymandering warfare. Any guardrails that once existed, from the Constitution or the courts, have been bulldozed over the last decade – most recently in the…

This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential

May 15, 2026 1h 13m

What do you do when you feel anxious or insecure? Many of us try to push the feeling away, or we ruminate on it, or try to solve it, or avoid the thought altogether. But what would happen if we did…

I Have Some Questions for the Democrats Who Want to Run California

May 12, 2026 1h 32m

On Friday, I moderated a forum with the top Democratic candidates for California governor, focusing on the state’s housing crisis. California’s current governor, Gavin Newsom, came into office in…

Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

Apr 24, 2026 50m

Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bridge figure between the San Francisco…

Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?

Apr 21, 2026 1h 32m

Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this election cycle, and a considerable amount of that money…

Our Tax System Should Make You Furious

Apr 17, 2026 1h 5m

Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth. In 2021, ProPublica published an…

Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness

Mar 31, 2026 1h 28m

Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And yet we barely understand it. We don’t know what…

Will Iran Break Trumpism?

Mar 27, 2026 1h 8m

Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication…

How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?

Mar 24, 2026 1h 2m

Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more strikes on energy infrastructure in the region —…

I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War

Mar 10, 2026 1h

I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Iran. I don’t think the administration is prepared…

Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic

Mar 06, 2026 1h 9m

Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation…

The Great Lie of War

Mar 03, 2026 1h 10m

Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart. On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…

The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power

Feb 13, 2026 1h 26m

At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was…

George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin

Feb 10, 2026 1h 27m

George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind…

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

Feb 06, 2026 1h 27m

Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so…

Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going

Jan 23, 2026 1h 6m

There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration enforcement. And it’s hard to keep the scale of what the…

Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?

Jan 16, 2026 1h 1m

We are one year into Trump’s second term. And it feels like so much has happened – more than the human mind, or the country, can absorb. But how much has Trump really accomplished? What policies have…

Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

Jan 13, 2026 1h 28m

State Representative James Talarico of Texas might have been our most requested guest last year. And he seemed to come out of nowhere.Talarico started breaking through with viral videos on TikTok and…

This Question Can Change Your Life

Jan 02, 2026 1h 5m

I like to start the year with a few episodes on things I’m personally working on. Not resolutions, exactly. More like intentions. Or, even better, practices.One of those practices, strange as it…

‘This Is Something That Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’

Dec 23, 2025 1h 17m

This is the strangest economy I’ve seen in my lifetime. If you just looked at the macro data — the jobs numbers, G.D.P., the stock market — things look pretty normal. But they clearly aren’t normal.…

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