Ezra Klein (The New York Times) On The Year Ahead

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🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ezra Klein is a columnist for The New York Times, the host of The Ezra Klein Show, and the author of Why We’re Polarized. He joins us this week to unpack the debate around school closures in the wake of Omicron (6:00), President Biden’s push to pass voting rights legislation (11:30), the GOP’s “precinct strategy” to win local elections (16:24), and what Democrats need to do ahead of the November midterms (23:00).

On the back-half, Ezra reflects on his early years covering Washington (29:35), his decision to leave VOX for The New York Times (34:37), his role in today’s media landscape (38:10), and where he’s finding hope in 2022 (45:29).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Fr New York Times journalist Ezra Klein. He's the author of the New York
0:48.0	Times Best Seller Why We're Polarized. He's also the host of his own podcast, the Ezra Klein show, which you can find on the I Heart
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1:40.9	independently born podcast which is a roundabout way of saying that talk easy, which is now somehow in year seven, has been made possible by you at home, supporting, sharing, and showing up.
1:56.2	And speaking of showing up, we want to try putting together a mail-back episode.
2:00.8	Basically, we want to hear from you. I spend most of the time on this show asking questions, but I realize
2:08.4	you may have some for me and the team that make talk easy. So if you have any questions or even just a comment or
2:15.5	reflection on a certain episode, maybe something one of our talks inspired in you, or
2:20.4	an episode that helped you get through whatever it is that you are going
2:24.4	through. Whatever is on your mind we're interested in hearing it so send it
2:29.2	along to mail at talk easy pod.com that's mail at talk easy pod.com. That's mail at talk easy pod.com. You can also find that
2:38.3	email address on your phone in the description of this episode. I don't know when or how often we will do these
2:45.2	mailback episodes, but I'm really looking forward to hearing from you. Now for this
2:50.1	week's episode I wanted to sit with somebody who could help us unpack what's happening
2:55.5	in American politics.
2:57.5	Before joining the New York Times, Ezra worked as a policy reporter for 15 years on the hill. He created the very popular
3:04.7	Wank blog at the Washington Post. He was also a founding member of Vox, a
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