The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein brings you far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research. Want to know how Mark Zuckerberg intends to govern Facebook? What Barack Obama regrets in Obamacare? The dangers Yuval Harari sees in our future? What Michael Pollan learned on psychedelics? The lessons Bryan Stevenson learned freeing the wrongly convicted on death row? The way N.K. Jemisin imagines new worlds? This is the podcast for you. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
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What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
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Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
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White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
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Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
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An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
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The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
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Failing towards Utopia
20 min
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Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
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Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
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This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
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The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
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Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
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How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
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How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
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Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
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The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
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Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
59 min
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What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
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Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
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The purpose of political violence
75 min
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Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
90 min
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The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
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Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
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Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
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Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
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How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
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In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
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Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min
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An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center...
81 min
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How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddi...
86 min
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Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
56 min
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Meet the policy architect behind the Green New ...
79 min
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The somewhat fractured state of American conser...
58 min
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American politics after Christianity, with Ross...
74 min
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Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on...
62 min
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ICYMI: Julia Galef
88 min
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The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
79 min
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ICYMI: Paul Krugman
94 min
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Pop music can make you smarter
21 min
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Life after climate change, with David Wallace-W...
69 min
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Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-f...
54 min
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Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justi...
67 min
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Why should we care about deficits?
62 min
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Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow
98 min
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Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences
121 min
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The core contradiction of American politics
63 min
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Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig
76 min
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The world according to Ralph Nader
80 min
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This conversation will change how you understan...
131 min
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Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Fr...
75 min
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Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of po...
75 min
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Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
57 min
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Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis o...
75 min
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Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
66 min
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Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
60 min
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Anil Dash on the biases of tech
77 min
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Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
90 min
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Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
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Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
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Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
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TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
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Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
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How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
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Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
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Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
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How to be a better carnivore
32 min
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Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
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Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
113 min
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The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
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Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
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Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
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Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
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Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
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Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
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How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
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Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
83 min
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What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
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Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
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Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
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Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
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Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
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Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
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Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
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Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
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Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min
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Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our poli...
54 min
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David French on “The Great White Culture War"
89 min
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Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey ...
62 min
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Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of chan...
90 min
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I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
79 min
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Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
89 min
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Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min
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Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativi...
69 min
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Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
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Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
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The surprising story of how American politics p...
67 min
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The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
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What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
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How to disagree better
98 min
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Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
83 min
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
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The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
66 min
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Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
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What Ellen Pao saw coming
70 min
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The Green Pill
61 min
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How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
75 min
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Political power and the racial wealth gap
82 min
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Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
90 min
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A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
83 min
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Optimism about America
78 min
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The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
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The age of "mega-identity" politics
79 min
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Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
113 min
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Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
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Is modern society making us depressed?
91 min
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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
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The Sam Harris Debate
129 min
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
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Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
85 min
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Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
54 min
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A better conversation on guns
52 min
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This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
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Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
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How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
70 min
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Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
72 min
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Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
72 min
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How Democracies Die
75 min
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How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
75 min
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You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
96 min
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
75 min
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Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
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The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
64 min
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What life is like in North Korea
50 min
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"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
95 min
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The case for impeachment
71 min
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What Buddhism got right about the human brain
78 min
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Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
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Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
65 min
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Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
84 min
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Why politics needs more conflict, not less
77 min
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Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
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What happens when human beings take control of ...
65 min
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
71 min
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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
111 min
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Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
80 min
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David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
89 min
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What Hillary Clinton really thinks
60 min
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Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
69 min
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From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
87 min
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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
77 min
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Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
67 min
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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
79 min
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What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
66 min
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Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
93 min
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Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
68 min
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Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
73 min
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Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
86 min
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danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
87 min
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Al Franken on learning to be a politician
56 min
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Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
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Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
66 min
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
67 min
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Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
94 min
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Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
93 min
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Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
73 min
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Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
68 min
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VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
73 min
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Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
47 min
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Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
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G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
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Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
100 min
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Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
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Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
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Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
79 min
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Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
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Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
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Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
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Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
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Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
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Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
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David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
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Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
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JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
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Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
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Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
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Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
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You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
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Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
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Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
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Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
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Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
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Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
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David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
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Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
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Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
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Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
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Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
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Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
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The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
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Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
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W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
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Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
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Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
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Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
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Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
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Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
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Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
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Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
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Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
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Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
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Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
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Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
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Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
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Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
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Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
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Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
85 min
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Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
101 min
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Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
76 min
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Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
92 min
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Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
92 min
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Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
86 min
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Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
67 min
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David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
84 min
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Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
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Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
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Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min
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Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think...
57 min
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Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building...
40 min
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How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Po...
56 min
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Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activis...
100 min
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