Ezra Klein
Founder and editor-at-large, Vox.com. Why yes, I do have a podcast. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
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The 4 words that will decide impeachment
Ezra Klein and Gene Healy discuss the meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors" on a new podcast, Impeachment, Explained.
Introducing Impeachment, Explained with Ezra Klein
We’re living through history. This new podcast helps us make sense of it.
Ezra Klein
First episode of "Impeachment, Explained" drops tomorrow morning. It's about the Trump administration's week of public confessions, and the meaning of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors."
I think you'll like it. Subscribe here
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How the US stole thousands of Native American children
The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. For more of Vox's reporting on Indigenous Peoples' Day, check out the lat...
‘Can Any of These People Beat Trump?’
Watching the Democratic debate with a serious candidate who wasn’t invited to the party, and can hardly believe what’s unfolding before his eyes.
How propaganda works in the digital age
Propaganda has evolved, and it’s transforming politics.
Top Trump official throws Giuliani under the bus in impeachment inquiry statement
Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, seems to lay a lot of blame at Rudy Giuliani’s feet.
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I'm reading this @AlexWardVox dive into the Sondland testimony to prep for a podcast and...good lord. It's all just so openly, unabashedly corrupt.
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The importance of Elijah Cummings’s fight for voting rights
"I will fight until the death to make sure every citizen ... has that right to vote."
Mark Zuckerberg said a lot of nothing in his big speech
Does it matter if you’re being transparent if you aren’t really saying anything?
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Great line from @ranimolla: "Of course, people will be mad no matter what Facebook does. It appears that in reaction, Facebook is choosing not to do much of anything."
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The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
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"...you’ve interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this year."
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Connecting to the iTunes Store.
Connecting to the iTunes Store.
Ezra Klein
On Saturday, I’m launching a new weekly podcast: "Impeachment, Explained."
Episode 1 is on the legal and historical meaning of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” with Cato's @GeneHealy. It's great.
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
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Youth Suicide Rate Rises 56% in Decade, CDC Says
Suicide and homicide rates have risen in recent years among young people in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
The Ezra Klein Show: Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate. on Apple Podcasts
Show The Ezra Klein Show, Ep Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate. - 20 Aug 2018
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Way back in the ancient time of August 2018, I had @AndrewYang on the podcast and we had a really good discussion of whether automation and AI will cause mass joblessness, and whether UBI would work as a response. Worth a listen
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The best and most substantive answers of the 4th Democratic debate
From Kamala Harris on abortion rights to Julián Castro on police violence as gun violence, the 2020 Democratic candidates delivered some memorable responses on Tuesday.
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Given that there were a record number of candidates on stage last night, it was a shockingly substantive debate. A few of the highlights, judged on quality rather than controversy
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Sorry, but Democrats need to talk about Hunter Biden
Democrats are afraid to talk about Hunter Biden. Trump won’t be.
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Democrats need to talk about Hunter Biden. Sorry, but they do.
Better to see if Biden is vulnerable on this in the primary than in the general.
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@willwilkinson @JeffreyASachs And, to say it explicitly, I think the kind of arguments Booker was making last night are a (possibly politically smart!) call for suppression of disagreement, in a way that reduces the information voters get from primaries. i.e
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Democrats’ debate about automation missed the mark
Both productivity and economic growth have slowed down, not sped up.
Listen to Conference-Goers at Trump Resort Chant for “War!”
Speakers at a pro-Trump conference urged attendees to “go to war” for the president and laughed about beating up classmates. It’s the same conference where a video of a fake Trump shooting members of the media played.
Climate change may imperil Joshua trees; group seeks tougher California protections
An environmental group Tuesday plans to ask the California Fish and Game Commission to designate the western Joshua Tree as threatened, a push sure to set off battles with desert developers.
The movement to make workers’ schedules more humane
Fair workweek laws, which aim to end unpredictable scheduling for workers, explained.
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There are a lot of Big Ideas floating around the Democratic primary, and that's all for the good. But one simple thing Democrats should do if they take power in 2021 is pass fair workweek legislation.
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Iowa Politicians Protect Meat Industry by Criminalizing Activists
Our short documentary tells the story of one undercover investigator whose footage of a pig factory farm is at the center of Iowa’s ag-gag backlash.