Joe Klein

Mar 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Joe Klein

There is a moment in the 2008 HBO movie "Recount" that illuminates an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats. The film was a fictionalized account of the mayhem that followed the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Warren Christopher, a courtly former secretary of state, represents the Democratic candidate Al Gore. "The world is watching," he intones. "We are theoretically it's last great democracy.

Mar 6, 2024 | sltrib.com | Frank Bruni |Joe Klein |Olivia Nuzzi

Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with the politics writers Joe Klein and Olivia Nuzzi to discuss the state of the likely Biden-Trump race, this week's State of the Union address and the state of possible third-party threats. Frank Bruni * Olivia, Joe, I'm so psyched to be doing this with two journalists I so hugely admire.

Dec 11, 2023 | substack.news-items.com | John Ellis |Joe Klein

Joe Klein and I recorded our first podcast last week. We’re calling it ‘Night Owls’. Joe has been covering politics for ~50 years and is as good at it as anyone in the business. His Substack newsletter is ‘Sanity Clause’’. It’s worth every dime of the subscription price. In this episode, we spend most of the time talking about the 2024 U.S. presidential…

Apr 30, 2023 | josephklein.substack.com | Joe Klein

Is Sanity Clause actually going to tackle the debt ceiling mirage and budget politics right here, right now, so early in the process, even though—by my calculation—about 99% of what can be written at this point is idle, finger-twiddling speculation? Am I willing to risk your boredom and scoffery…even if it will offer further proof of this newsletter’s central principle, that cultural issues are closer to the bone and therefore more interesting, and therefore more important, than economic ones?

Apr 17, 2023 | josephklein.substack.com | Joe Klein

I know, I know I’ve been touting the virtues of optimism when it comes to American politics—and I’m still convinced of the need for optimism if the republic is to survive as a democracy. But, you know, it just ain’t easy. And it’s been especially hard over the last week or so as Donald Trump has resurged, or perhaps regurgitated himself, into the forefront of Republican politics. He just seems more artful and savvy than any of his opponents.