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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein

Co-Founder

    Latest articles by Ezra Klein

    The Gray Area
    What Nate Silver’s learned about forecasting electionsWhat Nate Silver’s learned about forecasting elections
    Podcast
    The Gray Area

    The FiveThirtyEight founder talks with Ezra Klein about who will win in 2018 — and how to think about 2020.

    By Ezra Klein
    The Gray Area
    Is the media making American politics worse?Is the media making American politics worse?
    Podcast
    The Gray Area

    A difficult conversation about the state of political journalism.

    By Ezra Klein
    Politics
    When Twitter users hear out the other side, they become more polarizedWhen Twitter users hear out the other side, they become more polarized
    Politics

    Echo chambers aren’t what’s polarizing America.

    By Ezra Klein
    Why Bill Gates is worried
    Future Perfect

    What Gates thinks about global poverty, artificial intelligence, political freedom, clean meat, and humanity’s future.

    By Ezra Klein
    The rigging of American politics
    Politics

    Political systems depend on legitimacy. In America, that legitimacy is failing.

    By Ezra Klein
    Politics
    The Fox News strategy for saving Brett KavanaughThe Fox News strategy for saving Brett Kavanaugh
    Politics

    Make it about the Democrats, ignore Christine Blasey Ford.

    By Ezra Klein
    The Ford-Kavanaugh sexual assault hearings, explained
    Explainers

    If you want to know why women don’t come forward with allegations of sexual assault, today’s Senate hearings offered a clue.

    By Ezra Klein
    Politics
    The rise of YouTube’s reactionary rightThe rise of YouTube’s reactionary right
    Politics

    How demographic change and YouTube’s algorithms are building a new right.

    By Ezra Klein
    Politics
    The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are about the present, not just the pastThe allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are about the present, not just the past
    Politics

    Kavanaugh’s denial raises a question that must be answered.

    By Ezra Klein
    Politics
    Who’s overrated and who’s underrated as a 2020 Democratic presidential prospect?Who’s overrated and who’s underrated as a 2020 Democratic presidential prospect?
    Politics

    A few of our favorite long shots.

    By Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein and 1 more