What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/chris-murphy-save-bacon-pigs.html
Published: June 14, 2026 10:00
The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us.
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Ezra Klein joined Opinion in 2021. Previously, he was the founder, editor in chief and then editor at large of Vox; the host of the podcast “The Ezra Klein Show”; and the author of “Why We’re Polarized.” Before that, he was a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, where he founded and led the Wonkblog vertical. He is on Threads. 
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What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/chris-murphy-save-bacon-pigs.html
Published: June 14, 2026 10:00
The Save Our Bacon Act is bad for pigs and bad for us.
How Trump Weaponized the Antiwar Platform
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010948157/how-trump-weaponized-the-antiwar-platform.html
Published: June 10, 2026 15:21
Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to discuss how President Trump successfully weaponized an antiwar platform that Democrats abandoned.
Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic?
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010948161/is-the-us-israel-alliance-still-strategic.html
Published: June 10, 2026 01:46
Is the U.S.-Israel alliance doing more harm than good? Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to discuss whether the strategic and moral costs of the U.S.-Israel alliance outweigh the…
Can Democrats Move Beyond Their Failed Foreign Policy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-matt-duss.html
Published: June 9, 2026 09:04
Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders’s former foreign policy adviser, argues that Democrats need a foreign policy reckoning.
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?
Published: June 9, 2026 09:02
Matt Duss, Senator Bernie Sanders’s former foreign policy adviser, argues that Democrats need a foreign policy reckoning.
Bronze Age Pervert’s ‘Cosplay’ Masculinity
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010940555/bronze-age-perverts-cosplay-masculinity.html
Published: June 6, 2026 02:46
“This is an ideology that is born out of fat modernity itself,” the journalist Helen Lewis argues on “The Ezra Klein Show,” where she explains why the online right’s fascination with hypermasculinity is a bored delusion made possible by the safety of…
A Dark Vision of Masculinity
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010940550/a-dark-vision-of-masculinity.html
Published: June 5, 2026 20:37
Why does the modern, online vision of masculinity feel so “deeply depressing”? In conversation with the journalist Helen Lewis, the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein explains how leading right-wing figures weaponize the word “virtue” to mask a lack of moral and…
The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-helen-lewis-gender-right.html
Published: June 5, 2026 09:05
The journalist Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right.
The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010940546/the-new-rights-very-old-vision-of-men.html
Published: June 5, 2026 09:03
The journalist Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right.
China Is ‘a Loss’
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010932841/china-is-a-loss.html
Published: June 2, 2026 22:43
Trump’s China policy has “completely failed,” the political scientist Ian Bremmer argues on “The Ezra Klein Show,” and explains why America’s petrostate status isn’t enough to ensure its global dominance.
The Gating of the American Dream
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010932839/the-gating-of-the-american-dream.html
Published: June 2, 2026 22:42
Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the political scientist Ian Bremmer on “The Ezra Klein Show.”