Ezra Klein

1 week ago | timesfreepress.com | Ezra Klein

I'm going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important — or at least most predictive — day of Donald Trump's second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the day he announced that JD Vance was his choice for vice president. The runners-up were Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum — representatives of the Republican Party that existed before Trump's 2016 campaign, choices Trump might have made to reassure voters who doubted or feared him.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Ezra Klein

Video Back transcriptHow a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating TrumpRepresentative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez discusses Trump's tariffs and where Democrats have gone wrong. You go back a couple of decades in American politics - [CLIP] Coverage of election '96 - And it is extremely common to have members of the House who represent a district that was won at the presidential level by the other party. [CLIP] People have gotten very used to split-ticket voting.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Ezra Klein

Times Opinion asked our columnists to reflect on key moments during President Trump's first 100 days that were revealing about the administration or that reshaped the country. Read Ezra's Klein's essay below and the others here. I'm going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important - or at least most predictive - day of Donald Trump's second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the day he announced that JD Vance was his choice for vice president.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Ezra Klein

Video Back transcriptTrump vs. the DollarThe economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar's rise - and potential fall. For decades now, America has dominated the global financial system. Our currency is the currency that international trade runs on. Our financial plumbing is the plumbing that basically everybody, to some degree or another, uses. This has been called our "exorbitant privilege." Because of it, our borrowing costs are lower.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ezra Klein

Video Back transcriptAbundance and the LeftSaikat Chakrabarti and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build. It is a wild thing to release a book into the world. "Abundance," the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, has been out for a month and a half. It hit number one on The New York Times bestseller list this week, which - thank you to all of you out there who have read it or listened to it. No way that would have happened without you.