Ezra Klein
Founder and editor-at-large, @VoxDotCom
Author, "Why We're Polarized"
Podcasts, applepodcasts.com/ezraklein
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"The moral guardrails ... have dropped": Why anti-Semitism persists
Is anti-Semitism making a comeback? This episode of The Ezra Klein Show zooms in.
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
A conversation about truth and reconciliation in the US.
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Bryan Stevenson says so may brilliant, humane, important things in this conversation that I don't know what to quote, so here are a few. But truly, everything he says in this podcast is worth hearing. vox.com/21327742/bryan… pic.twitter.com/NYWv38Vq93
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How Biden is winning
Joe Biden refuses to play into Donald Trump’s hands.
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Joe Biden refuses to play into Donald Trump’s hands, and it’s driving the Trump campaign nuts.
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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
American Compass founder Oren Cass on why conservatives need to challenge free-market economic orthodoxy.
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I talked with @Oren_Cass about his fight to change how the right thinks about economics, why he Republicans need to take a no-new-tax-policy pledge, how economic policy shapes culture, why GDP misses what matters, how power shapes policy, and more
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Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’ by The Ezra Klein Show
Yascha Mounk and I discuss free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
Masha Gessen on the frightening fragility of America’s political institutions
Can American democracy survive Donald Trump?
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I talked with @mashagessen about the failures of political language, how to fit Trump into history, Hannah Arendt, the different kinds of political lies, whether Biden’s low-key campaign is the right response to Trumpism, and much more.
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America’s looming housing catastrophe, explained
"The United States is facing an eviction crisis of biblical proportions."
Supreme Court Lets Employers Opt Out of Providing Free Birth Control
The justices upheld regulations from the Trump administration that allowed employers with religious objections to decline to provide contraception coverage.
Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight big factory farms
Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have a new bill, and a new coalition, with far-reaching consequences.
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Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Ro Khanna have a bill that would radically reshape animal agriculture, phasing out the biggest CAFOs by 2040.
I wrote about it, and the odd-bedfellows coalition of farmers, vegans, and economic populists behind it
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It's testament to how cruel our system of industrialized animal agriculture is that activists who believe eating meat is immoral and farmers who raise animals for slaughter could both support the same bill to reform it
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The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19)
"Shifting baselines syndrome" means we could quickly get used to climate chaos.
Southeast Asia coronavirus update - Marginal REVOLUTION
Health officials praise Laos after coronavirus-free declaration (some new concerns here, so far nothing major) Cambodia has zero reported deaths, broadly consistent with anecdotal evidence too. Vietnam reports 14 new cases, all imported. Broader...
What the police really believe
Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.
Sen. Tim Scott on race, police reform, and why ending qualified immunity is a nonstarter for the GOP
"I’m a believer in divine intervention. ... I was made Black on purpose and as a person of conservative construct."
Months Into Virus Crisis, U.S. Cities Still Lack Testing Capacity
With cases surging, some cities are seeing long testing lines and slow results.
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That it's July and we're still having testing shortages on this scale is insane. I drove by a testing center in Oakland today and the line was wrapped around the block.
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Covid-19 cases are rising, but deaths are falling. What’s going on?
By the time coronavirus deaths start rising again, it’s already too late.
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There should be a word — probably in German — for pieces where you feel both 1) better informed after reading them and 2) much worse after reading them.
Maybe the word is just "journalism."
Anyway
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What's really behind "tech" versus "journalism"
Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played out across across Instagram, Twitter, and the upstart audio-only social network Clubhouse. One reason it generated so much attention — you can read thorough...
How California went from a coronavirus success story to a worrying new hot spot
California took early action against the coronavirus pandemic. Now things have taken a turn for the worse.
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California was an early coronavirus success story. Now cases are up 90% over two weeks. Here's what happened
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The radicalism of the American Revolution — and its lessons for today
Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen discusses the US’s founding, prison abolition, and the future of democracy.
8 ways to go out and stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic
People are starting to leave their homes again. Here’s how to do that and stay as safe as possible.
What House Democrats actually want to do about climate change
A new select committee report is perfectly in tune with the growing climate-policy alignment on the left around standards, investments, and justice.
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Read @drvox on the House Dems' unexpectedly ambitious climate plan:
"An extraordinary synthesis of expertise from social and scientific fields, written by people deeply familiar with government, the levers of power, and existing policy."
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