The Ezra Klein Show
The New York Times
Ezra Klein's conversations with experts and thinkers on politics, culture, and personal growth.
Why we picked this
We picked The Ezra Klein Show for how it treats policy mechanics and political philosophy as subjects worth slowing down for. Klein presses guests on the specific levers of power—how zoning fees block housing, how gerrymandering math backfires, what proportional representation would actually require—rather than letting them stay at the level of principle. The result is a feed where structural arguments get the same rigor as ideological ones, and where the follow-up question is always about what happens on the ground.
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A Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians
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