‘I Have No Idea How This Ends. I’ve Never Seen It So Broken.’
It’s been just over 100 days since Hamas’s attack on Israel, and the costs of the war are staggering. In polling from late fall, 64 percent of Gazans reported that a family member had been killed or i...
19 Jan 20241h 8min
A Republican Pollster on Trump’s Undimmed Appeal
The fact that Donald Trump is the front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination in 2024 has created a chasm in our politics. In the past, Democrats and Republicans at least understood why members of the othe...
16 Jan 202448min
Should Trump Be Barred From the Ballot?
There’s this incredible dissonance at the center of our politics right now. On the one hand, all the polling suggests that Donald Trump is about to win Iowa Republican caucuses and the New Hampshire p...
12 Jan 20241h 2min
How to Discover Your Own Taste
Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms, it’s become a lot easier to find movies or TV shows or music that fits our preferences pret...
9 Jan 20241h 2min
Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.
I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all, is just the sum total of the things you’ve paid attention to. And we lament our attention issues all the time: h...
5 Jan 202456min
Best Of: The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
“We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller.He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors power everything from our phones and computers to cars, pla...
26 Dec 202358min
Best Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
The holidays are one of the most social times of the year, filled with parties and family get-togethers. Many of us see friends and loved ones who we barely — or never — saw all year. Maybe we resolve...
22 Dec 20231h 14min
How the Israel-Gaza Conversations Have Shaped My Thinking
It’s become something of a tradition on “The Ezra Klein Show” to end the year with an “Ask Me Anything” episode. So as 2023 comes to a close, I sat down with our new senior editor, Claire Gordon, to a...
19 Dec 202356min
