Who is the producer of the Ezra Klein Show?
Email us at [email protected]. “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta.
What is the book Let the Record Show about?
It’s a book about necessary conflicts: between the AIDS community and the U.S. government, and between queer people and a widely homophobic society.
How Far-Right Extremism Invaded Mainstream Politics
A historian of the white power movement discusses Jan. 6, Tucker Carlson and the threat of politically motivated violence.
The Mainstream Media Has a Republican Party Problem
Jay Rosen on how the press fundamentally misunderstands American politics.
Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life
Kiese Laymon and Tressie McMillan Cottom on vulnerability, revision and love.
The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt
The sociologist Louise Seamster discusses America’s student debt crisis and how higher education contributes to the racial wealth gap.
Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party
Ross Douthat and Sohrab Ahmari debate the future of the American right.
America Was Forged by the Marginalized
How the political struggles waged by Black Americans forged U.S. democracy — and what we can learn from them.
What is the Premonition by Michael Lewis about?
Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” is about one of the most important questions of this moment: Why, despite having the most money, the brightest minds and the some of the most robust public health infrastructure in the world, did ...
Where does Biden's agenda live?
The Senate is where Joe Biden’s agenda will live or die. More specifically, the intricacies of archaic Senate rules — the budget reconciliation process, the filibuster, the majority leader’s ability to control the floor — combined with the fealty today’s ...
Democrats Chase Shiny Objects. Here's How to Build Real Power
There’s good reason to worry about the future of democracy, and little reason to believe Democrats have a viable plan for protecting it. They built their strategy around passing a major suite of voting reforms and protections through Congress, and a few weeks back, their whole agenda collapsed in the face of the filibuster.
Learning to Listen to the Voices Only You Hear
The world has gotten louder, even when we’re alone. A day spent in isolation can still mean a day buffeted by the voices on social media and the news, on podcasts, in emails and text messages.
The View From the White House
It’s been a year since Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. And what a roller coaster of a year it’s been. The Biden administration blew past its Covid vaccination goal of 100 million shots in 100 days, only to run into the realities of vaccine skepticism, the Delta wave and now Omicron.
Chris Hayes on How Biden Can Have a Better 2022
Nothing like a newborn and paternity leave to leave you feeling a bit out of the loop. So for my first podcast back since October, I wanted to wander through the thickets of where we are politically and how we got here.
Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking
For decades, our society’s dominant metaphor for the mind has been a computer. A machine that operates the exact same way whether it’s in a dark room or next to a sunny window, whether it’s been working for 30 seconds or three hours, whether it’s near other computers or completely alone. But that’s wrong.
Best Of: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I
For years, I’ve kept a list of dream guests for this show. And as long as that list has existed, Ted Chiang has been atop it. Chiang is a science fiction writer. But that undersells him.
Best Of: Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsky, at 92, is still putting his dent in the world — writing books, giving interviews, changing minds. There are different sides to Chomsky.
