Ezra Klein
Podcast Host at The Ezra Klein Show
Opinion Columnist at The New York Times
Columnist, @NYTOpinion Author, "Why We're Polarized" Host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Ezra Klein
Video Back transcriptTom Friedman Thinks We're Getting China Dangerously WrongThe Times Opinion columnist discusses what he thinks Trump - and American policymakers - misunderstand about China in the escalating trade war. What if you get into a trade war with China and you lose? I don't think people are thinking enough about how possible that really is. And one of the reasons it's possible isn't just because Donald Trump's trade war is ill thought through and ill-defined and not well planned for.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Ezra Klein
I've been thinking about something that Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden's national security adviser, said in a post-election interview: "The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years."What we're seeing now is that this was a false choice. There is no way to cleave the policy of the next decade from the outcome of the next election.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Ezra Klein
Video Back transcriptTrump's Tariffs Are Part of a 'Tectonic Plate Shift' in the Global EconomyPeter R. Orszag, the C.E.O. of Lazard, discusses how markets are reacting to the uncertainty of Trump's tariffs. So that near financial meltdown we just went through, what was all that about? Even if the Trump administration could clearly articulate its goals and could achieve them, are they goals we actually want to achieve?
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Ezra Klein
3 hours agoTrump’s aggressive trade policies have rocked an alliance that seemed unshakeable. It’s over. After a century and a half of building an economic and military partnership that survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks, the United States and Canada are breaking up. …
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Ezra Klein
So what is going on here? Why is Donald Trump absorbing this much economic pain? Why is he risking a domestic recession - and a global recession - for this package of policies that almost every economist would tell you does not really make sense? I wanted to talk with my former colleague Paul Krugman about this. Paul is a Nobel Prize-winning economist with a focus on trade. He was a columnist here at The New York Times for 25 years.
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The administration's response to the Signal debacle is just suffused with contempt for their own voters. Just an endless belief that the people who support them can be tricked into believing the laziest misdirection imaginable.
Read Steve Teles on Progressive Minoritarianism. I don't agree with everything in his essay, but it's a critique — more than that, a reality — we need to grapple with. https://t.co/OfAzTcdMqX
2. The professional-class shift toward the Democratic Party was accompanied by a remarkable delegation of power down to local communities to police their boundaries, and to impose these preferences by force of law.
RT @YAppelbaum: 3. This is something I'd like to see the critics of @DKThomp and @ezraklein take much more seriously. The last 50 years hav…
