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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein

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    Latest articles by Ezra Klein

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    In praise of polarizationIn praise of polarization
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    How identity politics changed the Democratic Party — for the better.

    By Ezra Klein
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    Which country has the world’s best health care system?Which country has the world’s best health care system?
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    Ezekiel Emanuel discusses global health care, pandemic response, and presidential leadership on The Ezra Klein Show.

    By Ezra Klein
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    Ross Douthat and I debate American decadenceRoss Douthat and I debate American decadence
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    Podcasts

    The Times columnist discusses American decline, utopian ambition, and the Catholic right on The Ezra Klein Show.

    By Ezra Klein
    Imagining the nonviolent state
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    What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state?

    By Ezra Klein
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    America is changing, and so is the mediaAmerica is changing, and so is the media
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    The media has gone through painful periods of change before. But this time is different.

    By Ezra Klein
    Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
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    The author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and more.

    By Ezra Klein
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    When police officers are told they’re in a war, they act like itWhen police officers are told they’re in a war, they act like it
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    “We are the action arm for a fucked-up national mindset”: A CIA officer turned cop speaks out.

    By Ezra Klein
    America at the breaking point
    Politics

    The social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and institutional dysfunction of the present.

    By Ezra Klein
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    The vital missing piece of the Democrats’ stimulus billThe vital missing piece of the Democrats’ stimulus bill
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    If the rule House Democrats followed doesn’t allow enough spending, what use is their rule?

    By Ezra Klein
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    Robert Frank’s radical ideaRobert Frank’s radical idea
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    Podcasts

    How the power of social pressure could revolutionize economics and solve our hardest problems.

    By Ezra Klein