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LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Dialogo Abierto: la escucha que cura el trastorno mentalEscuchar de una cierta forma es un acto terapéutico que ayuda a recuperarse del trastorno mental grave.Nos lo cuenta el psiquiatra Jordi Marfà, uno de los pioneros del diálogo abierto en España, un enfoque que propone como método de tratamiento del trastorno mental grave algo tan revolucionario como escuchar. Escuchar de verdad. Con más de 40 años de experiencia en salud mental, Jordi comparte con nosotros cómo pasó de una mirada médica clásica a una forma más humana de acompañar el sufrimiento psíquico. Desde su ex...2025-05-1953 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Testimonio de recuperación de un trastorno mental graveLos trastornos mentales graves se etiquetan de crónicos. Eso también le pasó a Marcos y se lo creyó durante muchos años, hasta que tomó las riendas de su recuperación… Hasta que lo consiguió.Marcos Obregón, autor del libro Contra el diagnóstico: desmontando la enfermedad mental, comparte su experiencia personal de recuperación de un trastorno mental grave y su reflexión crítica sobre el sistema psiquiátrico. Hablamos del uso (y abuso) de la medicación, de la contención, del aislamiento que provoca el miedo y de la importancia...2025-05-151h 04
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Convivir con la neurodivergencia de una madre y un hermanoEn este episodio Teresa nos comparte su experiencia acompañando a su madre y a su hermano, ambos con diagnóstico de esquizofrenia. Un testimonio honesto y esperanzador sobre buscar ayuda, poner palabras a lo silenciado, y descubrir en la neurodivergencia una forma de acercarnos a las personas que queremos.https://www.soniaherrero.com/podcast2025-05-1241 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Poner límites para convivir en casa con el trastorno mental.Convivir con un trastorno mental grave en casa puede desgastar, desbordar y confundir. En este episodio hablamos de cómo vivir mejor en familia cuando uno de sus miembros atraviesa una crisis o un diagnóstico.Con Diego Pulido, psicólogo y trabajador social con más de 30 años de experiencia, exploramos cómo poner límites de forma amorosa, cómo distinguir entre síntomas y actitudes dañinas, y cómo acompañar sin perderse a uno mismo.Si quieres saber más sobre el trabajo de Diego o de la Fundación Buen Samarit...2025-05-0849 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?El proceso de duelo en el trastorno mental. Entrevista con la Dra. Isabel PajaresCuando la persona que quieres ya no es como antes, comienza un duelo invisible. En este episodio hablamos del dolor emocional que atraviesan familiares y acompañantes frente a un trastorno mental grave.Con Isabel Pajares, doctora en medicina integral y psicosomática, exploramos las fases del duelo, el peligro de quedarse atrapado en él y cómo sostenerse emocionalmente sin caer en la resignación.Contacto de Isabel Pajares: info@saludintegralip.es Whatsapp: +34 696 035 036https://www.soniaherrero.com/podcast#Duelo #TrastornoMental #Familiares #Cuidados #GestiónEmocional2025-05-0538 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Cuando la medicación no es la solución sino el problema.En este episodio de LO-CURA: ¿qué cura la locura?, Sonia Herrero entrevista a Luena, quien, desde su experiencia, ofrece una perspectiva crítica y humana sobre cómo acompañar el sufrimiento psíquico. Hablan sobre la importancia de centrarse en las partes sanas de la persona, el valor de la presencia sin imponer expectativas, y de cómo la medicación no siempre ayuda en el proceso de recuperación. https://www.soniaherrero.com/podcast2025-05-0552 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Bipolar y a mucha honra: la historia real de Javi Martín🎧 En este episodio, Sonia Herrero conversa con el actor Javi Martín, conocido por su paso por Caiga Quien Caiga y por su valiente testimonio sobre el trastorno bipolar.Javi habla sin filtros de sus crisis maníacas, del dolor profundo de la depresión y del intento de suicidio que cambió su vida. Con mucho humor y sensibilidad, comparte lo que a él le sirvió para recuperarse, reflexiones sobre el papel de las familias, el autocuidado, la comunicación y la necesidad de hacer un trabajo personal para dejar atrás culpas y mochilas emocionales...2025-05-0146 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Cuando un ser querido sufre… ¿Cómo sigues adelante?¿Cómo acompañar a alguien con un trastorno mental sin perderte tú en el camino?En este episodio, Sonia Herrero —terapeuta, madre, fundadora de la comunidad RESPIRA y creadora del podcast LO-CURA— comparte su historia personal como acompañante del proceso de su hijo de 19 años, que atravesó varios episodios psicóticos y una profunda depresión.Con honestidad y sensibilidad, Sonia nos habla del impacto emocional en los familiares, de los errores bienintencionados que cometemos, del agotamiento, la culpa, de los límites necesarios y de cómo cuidar también la salud mental de...2025-05-0129 min
LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Crisis de salud mental: El impacto en quienes acompañanEl sufrimiento mental no solo afecta a quien lo experimenta, sino que tiene un impacto profundo en quienes están cerca. En este episodio, Mario Salvador nos explica cómo reconocer el trauma en las familias y cómo el entorno puede influir en el proceso de sanación. A través de su experiencia, profundizamos en la importancia de la empatía, el autocuidado y el entendimiento de las emociones detrás de los trastornos. Un episodio fundamental para quienes acompañan a seres queridos en momentos de crisis, donde el apoyo emocional y el conocim...2025-05-0154 min
The OpinionsMaureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada on 100 Days of Trump’s ‘Fake Reality’In this episode, the Opinion deputy editor Patrick Healy is joined by the columnists Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada to dissect the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term and prepare for what’s to come.Thoughts? Email us at theopinions@nytimes.com.This episode of “The Opinions” was produced by Jillian Weinberger. It was edited by Alison Bruzek and Kaari Pitkin. The rest of the show's production team includes Derek Arthur and Vishkaha Darbha. Mixing by Carole Sabouraud and Sonia Herrero. Original music by Sonia Herrero, Carole Sabouraud and Aman Sahota. Fact-checking by Mary Mar...2025-04-3029 min
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LO-CURA ¿Qué cura la locura?Presentación de LO-CURAHola soy Sonia Herrero y te doy la bienvenida a LOCURA ¿Qué cura la locura? Esta es la pregunta que nos guía en este podcast donde exploramos el complejo universo de los trastornos mentales.Aquí buscamos comprender qué hay detrás de ellos y también qué es necesario para su recuperación. Este programa nace de una inquietud profunda, que es transformar la manera en que vivimos los trastornos mentales, especialmente desde la perspectiva de los familiares y acompañantes. Porque cuando alguien atraviesa una crisis de salud m...2025-04-2503 minThe OpinionsObama’s Not Going to Save Democrats, but This MightThe Opinion writer Michelle Cottle and contributing Opinion writer Ben Rhodes discuss why the Democratic Party hasn’t launched an effective opposition and who they see as the future of the party.Thoughts? Email us at theopinions@nytimes.com.This episode of “The Opinions” was produced by Vishakha Darbha. It was edited by Kaari Pitkin and Alison Bruzek. The rest of the show's production team also includes Derek Arthur and Jillian Weinberger. Mixing by Sonia Herrero. Original music by Pat McCusker, Sonia Herrero and Carole Sabouraud. Fact-checking by Mary Marge Locker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta...2025-03-3122 minThe OpinionsWhat Man's Man Politics Is Doing to AmericaPresident Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan. In this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy editor of Times Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks with its columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom about what Trump’s focus on gender means for women, minorities and American politics.Thoughts? Email us at theopinions@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Opinions” at nytimes.com/column/the-opinions.This episode of “The Opinions” was produced by Vishakha Darbha. It was by Kaari...2025-03-0329 min
Vive! Radio BurgosVive! Burgos 11.02.2025| Miranda Empresas, Sonia Herrero, 'Un café en...', Coquelicot, Crónica Negra y Jesús CastroHoy en Vive! Burgos con María Cristóbal hablamos de la jornada empresarial “Actualidad del Transporte Marítimo Internacional, con Roberto Martínez de Salinas Director Miranda Empresas, con Sonia Herrero de su nuevo libro y ‘Un café en…’ con Paula Isla. Además, Coquelicot, Jesús Toledano con la Crónica Negra y “La visibilidad de lo invisible” de Jesús Castro.2025-02-111h 08
Vive! Radio BurgosVive! Burgos 11.02.2025| Miranda Empresas, Sonia Herrero, 'Un café en...', Coquelicot, Crónica Negra y Jesús CastroHoy en Vive! Burgos con María Cristóbal hablamos de la jornada empresarial “Actualidad del Transporte Marítimo Internacional, con Roberto Martínez de Salinas Director Miranda Empresas, con Sonia Herrero de su nuevo libro y ‘Un café en…’ con Paula Isla. Además, Coquelicot, Jesús Toledano con la Crónica Negra y “La visibilidad de lo invisible” de Jesús Castro.2025-02-111h 08
The Ezra Klein ShowThe Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-UpIt was once a fringe opinion to say President Biden should drop his re-election bid and Democrats should embrace an open convention. That position is fringe no more. But when the conventional wisdom shifts this rapidly, there’s always the danger of overlooking its potential flaws.My colleague, the Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, has been making some of the strongest arguments against Biden dropping out and throwing the nomination contest to a brokered convention. So I invited him on the show to talk through where he and I diverge and how our thinking is changing....2024-07-0955 minThe Ezra Klein ShowHow an Open Democratic Convention Would WorkAfter President Biden’s rough performance at the first presidential debate, the question of an open convention has roared to the front of Democratic politics. But how would an open convention work? What would be its risks? What would be its rewards? In February, after I first made the case for an open Democratic convention, I interviewed Elaine Kamarck to better understand what an open convention would look like. She literally wrote the book on how we choose presidential candidates, “Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know About How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates.” But her background here is...2024-07-021h 02The Ezra Klein ShowTrump’s Bold Vision for America: Higher Prices!Donald Trump has made inflation a central part of his campaign message. At his rallies, he rails against “the Biden inflation tax” and “crooked Joe’s inflation nightmare,” and promises that in a second Trump term, “inflation will be in full retreat.”But if you look at Trump’s actual policies, that wouldn’t be the case at all. Trump has a bold, ambitious agenda to make prices much, much higher. He’s proposing a 10 percent tariff on imported goods, and a 60 percent tariff on products from China. He wants to deport huge numbers of immigrants. And he’s made it clear t...2024-06-211h 32The Ezra Klein ShowThe View From the Israeli RightOn Tuesday I got back from an eight-day trip to Israel and the West Bank. I happened to be there on the day that Benny Gantz resigned from the war cabinet and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to schedule new elections, breaking the unity government that Israel had had since shortly after Oct. 7.There is no viable left wing in Israel right now. There is a coalition that Netanyahu leads stretching from right to far right and a coalition that Gantz leads stretching from center to right. In the early months of the war, Gantz appeared...2024-06-1455 minThe Ezra Klein ShowThe Republican Party’s Decay Began Long Before TrumpAfter Donald Trump was convicted last week in his hush-money trial, Republican leaders wasted no time in rallying behind him. There was no chance the Republican Party was going to replace Trump as their nominee at this point. Trump has essentially taken over the G.O.P.; his daughter-in-law is even co-chair of the Republican National Committee.How did the Republican Party get so weak that it could fall victim to a hostile takeover?Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld are the authors of “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Po...2024-06-041h 06The Ezra Klein ShowYour Mind Is Being FrackedThe steady dings of notifications. The 40 tabs that greet you when you open your computer in the morning. The hundreds of unread emails, most of them spam, with subject lines pleading or screaming for you to click. Our attention is under assault these days, and most of us are familiar with the feeling that gives us — fractured, irritated, overwhelmed.D. Graham Burnett calls the attention economy an example of “human fracking”: With our attention in shorter and shorter supply, companies are going to even greater lengths to extract this precious resource from us. And he argues that it’s n...2024-05-311h 12The Ezra Klein ShowA Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …“The Jetsons” premiered in 1962. And based on the internal math of the show, George Jetson, the dad, was born in 2022. He’d be a toddler right now. And we are so far away from the world that show imagined. There were a lot of future-trippers in the 1960s, and most of them would be pretty disappointed by how that future turned out.So what happened? Why didn’t we build that future?The answer, I think, lies in the 1970s. I’ve been spending a lot of time studying that decade in my work, trying to underst...2024-05-211h 01The Ezra Klein ShowThis Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug LawsDrug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, either.Take Oregon. In 2020, it became the first state in the nation to decriminalize hard drugs. It was a paradigm shift — treating drug-users as patients rather than criminals — and advocates hoped it would be a model for the nation. But then there was a surge in overdoses and public backlash over open-air drug use. And last month, Oregon’s governor signed a law restoring criminal penalties for drug pos...2024-05-101h 02The Ezra Klein ShowWatching the Protests From IsraelUltimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American pressure and policy, and a broad sense of international outrage to change the decisions being made by Israeli leaders.So I wanted to know what it’s like to watch these protests from Israel. What are Israelis seeing? What do they make of them?Ari Shavit is an Israeli journalist and the author of “My Promised Land,” the best book I’ve read about Israeli identity and history. “Israelis are seeing a different war than the one th...2024-05-071h 04
The Ezra Klein ShowIs Green Growth Possible?A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people to make sacrifices, or countries to slow their development, and delay dreams of better, more prosperous lives.But the world today looks different. The costs of solar and wind power have plummeted. Same for electric batteries. And a new politics is starting to take hold: that maybe we can invest and invent and build our way out of this crisis. But some very hard problems remain. Chief among them? Cows.Hannah Ritchie is...2024-04-301h 03The Ezra Klein ShowSalman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsSalman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.“I think now I’ll never be able to escape it. No matter what I’ve already written or may now write, I’ll always be the guy who got knifed...2024-04-2659 min
🎙️🎙️El Podcast del Agua🎙️🎙️#20 ENTREVISTA A SONIA CONTRERASEn este episodio, tengo el privilegio de entrevistar a la gran Sonia Contreras.
Sonia es Ingeniero Técnico Industrial por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas en Madrid y lleva más de 25 años dedicada al agua en concreto a todo lo que son sistemas de telecontrol y comunicaciones del sector en Lacroix Environment España.
LACROIX es proveedor internacional de dispositivos tecnológicos proporcionando equipos y soluciones inteligentes, conectados y seguros para una mejor gestión de las infraestructuras viarias, hídricas y energéticas. Lacroix tiene 3 actividades principa...2024-04-191h 10The Ezra Klein ShowA $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to BuildThere is so much we need to build right now. The housing crunch has spread across the country; by one estimate, we’re a few million units short. And we also need a huge build-out of renewable energy infrastructure — at a scale some experts compare to the construction of the Interstate highway system.And yet, we’re not seeing anything close to the level of building that we need — even in the blue states and cities where housing tends to be more expensive and where politicians and voters purport to care about climate change and affordable housing.Jer...2024-04-1649 minThe Ezra Klein ShowWhat if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial intelligence more and more data?He and his colleagues decided to study it, and they found that the A.I. didn’t just get better with more data; it got better exponentially. The curve of the A.I.’s capabilities rose slowly at first and then shot up like a hockey stick.Amodei is now the chief executive of his own A.I. company, Anthropic, which recently released Clau...2024-04-121h 32The Ezra Klein ShowHow Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the advent of a wildly powerful technology, one that could transform the economy and the way we think about art and creativity and the value of human work itself. At the same time, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to use it in my own day-to-day job.So I wanted to understand what I’m missing and get some tips for how I could incorporate A.I. better into my li...2024-04-021h 14The Ezra Klein ShowThe Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’Donald Trump can seem like a political anomaly. You sometimes hear people describe his connection with his base in quasi-mystical terms. But really, Trump is an example of an archetype — the right-wing populist showman — that recurs across time and place. There’s Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Boris Johnson in Britain, Javier Milei in Argentina. And there’s a long lineage of this type in the United States too.So why is there this consistent demand for this kind of political figure? And why does this set of qualities — ethnonationalist politics and an entertaining style — repeatedly appear at all?J...2024-03-291h 18The Ezra Klein ShowBirthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?For a long time, the story about the world’s population was that it was growing too quickly. There were going to be too many humans, not enough resources, and that spelled disaster. But now the script has flipped. Fertility rates have declined dramatically, from about five children per woman 60 years ago to just over two today. About two-thirds of us now live in a country or area where fertility rates are below replacement level. And that has set off a new round of alarm, especially in certain quarters on the right and in Silicon Valley, that we’re head...2024-03-191h 00The Ezra Klein ShowWhat a Second Biden Term Would Look LikePresident Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech last Thursday, offering his pitch for why he should be president for a second term. It’s the clearest picture we have yet of Biden’s campaign message for 2024. But while he listed off all kinds of proposals, it’s not as easy to parse what a second Biden term might actually look like. So I sat down with my editor Aaron Retica, who had a lot of questions for me about the speech itself and what Biden would be likely to accomplish if he got another four years in the...2024-03-121h 01The Ezra Klein ShowHow America’s Two Abortion Realities Are ClashingWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways that one might not entirely expect. Many conservative states made the procedure essentially illegal — that part was predictable. But there’s also been this striking backlash in blue states, with many of them making historic efforts to expand abortion access, for both their residents and for women living in abortion-restricted states.And this has created all kinds of new battle lines — between states, and states and the federal government — involving travel, speech, privacy and executive power. It’s an explo...2024-03-0857 minThe Ezra Klein ShowMarilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of IsraelMarilynne Robinson is one of the great living novelists. She has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Humanities Medal, and Barack Obama took time out of his presidency to interview her at length. Her fiction is suffused with a sense of holiness: Mundane images like laundry drying on a line seem to be illuminated by a divine force. Whether she’s telling the story of a pastor confronting his mortality in “Gilead” or two sisters coming of age in small-town Idaho in “Housekeeping,” her novels wrestle with theological questions of what it means to be human, to see the world...2024-03-051h 02The Ezra Klein ShowThe Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America’s Policy Hasn’t.Joe Biden’s presidency has been dominated by two foreign policy crises: the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The funding the United States has provided in those wars — billions to both Ukraine and Israel — has drawn backlash from both the right and the left. And now, as the conflicts move into new stages with no clear end game, Biden’s policies are increasingly drawing dissent from the center.Richard Haass is an icon of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations for 20 years and currently writes the newslett...2024-03-011h 03The Ezra Klein ShowYour Questions on Open Conventions, a Gaza Schism and Biden’s ChancesWe received thousands of questions in response to last week’s audio essay arguing that Democrats should consider choosing a candidate at August’s D.N.C. convention. Among them: Is there any chance Joe Biden would actually step down? Would an open convention be undemocratic? Is there another candidate who can bridge the progressive and moderate divide in the party? Doesn’t polling show other candidates losing to Donald Trump by even larger margins? Would a convention process leave Democrats enough time to mount a real general election campaign?In this conversation, I’m joined by our seni...2024-02-2351 minThe Ezra Klein ShowHere’s How an Open Democratic Convention Would WorkLast week on the show, I argued that the Democrats should pick their nominee at the Democratic National Convention in August.It’s an idea that sounds novel but is really old-fashioned. This is how most presidential nominees have been picked in American history. All the machinery to do it is still there; we just stopped using it. But Democrats may need a Plan B this year. And the first step is recognizing they have one.Elaine Kamarck literally wrote the book on how we choose presidential candidates. It’s called “Primary Politics: Everything You Need t...2024-02-211h 02The Ezra Klein ShowBuilding the Palestinian State With Salam Fayyad“If only we had a partner for peace.”That’s been the refrain in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for as long as I’ve followed it. But the truth is you don’t need just a partner — you need two partners able to deliver at the same time.So you could see it as a tragedy of history that Salam Fayyad joined the Palestinian Authority in 2002, at the height of the second intifada, just as Israeli society shifted hard to the right.A Western-educated economist, Fayyad is a technocrat at heart. And as the Palestinian...2024-02-091h 05The Ezra Klein ShowWhat Relationships Would You Want, if You Believed They Were Possible?Around 40 percent of people who marry eventually get a divorce. Almost half of children are born to unmarried women. The number of close friends Americans report having has been on a steep decline since the 1990s, especially among men. Millions of us are growing old alone. We are living out a radical experiment in how we live, love, parent and age — and for many, it’s failing.That’s partial context, I think, for the recent burst of interest and media coverage of polyamory. People want more love in their lives, and opening their relationships is one way to...2024-02-0659 minThe Ezra Klein Show‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’Political analysts used to say that the Democratic Party was riding a demographic wave that would lead to an era of dominance. But that “coalition of the ascendant” never quite jelled. The party did benefit from a rise in nonwhite voters and college-educated professionals, but it has also shed voters without a college degree. All this has made the Democrats’ political math a lot more precarious. And it also poses a kind of spiritual problem for Democrats who see themselves as the party of the working class.Ruy Teixeira is one of the loudest voices calling on the De...2024-02-011h 09The Ezra Klein Show‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’If you’re a Democrat, how worried should you be right now? It’s strangely hard to answer that question. On the one hand, polls suggest Democrats should be very worried. President Biden looks weaker than he did as a candidate in 2020, and in matchups with Donald Trump, the election looks like a coin flip. On the other hand, Democrats staved off an expected red wave in the 2022 midterm elections. Biden has a strong record to run on, and Trump has a lot more baggage than he did in 2020.So, in an effort to put all those piec...2024-01-251h 08The Ezra Klein Show‘I Have No Idea How This Ends. I’ve Never Seen It So Broken.’It’s been just over 100 days since Hamas’s attack on Israel, and the costs of the war are staggering. In polling from late fall, 64 percent of Gazans reported that a family member had been killed or injured. Nearly two million Gazans — almost the entire population — have been displaced from their homes, and analysis of satellite imagery reveals that about half the buildings in the Gaza Strip have probably been destroyed or damaged.Israel believes that more than 100 hostages are being held captive in Gaza, and polling reveals that Hamas has gained popularity among Palestinians while support for Isra...2024-01-191h 08The Ezra Klein ShowBest Of: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social LivesThe holidays are one of the most social times of the year, filled with parties and family get-togethers. Many of us see friends and loved ones who we barely — or never — saw all year. Maybe we resolve to stay in better touch in the new year. But then somehow, once again, life gets in the way. This is not an accident. More and more people are living lives that feel lonelier and more socially isolated than they want them to be. And that’s largely because of social structures we’ve chosen — wittingly or unwittingly — to build for ourselves...2023-12-221h 14The Ezra Klein ShowHow the Israel-Gaza Conversations Have Shaped My ThinkingIt’s become something of a tradition on “The Ezra Klein Show” to end the year with an “Ask Me Anything” episode. So as 2023 comes to a close, I sat down with our new senior editor, Claire Gordon, to answer listeners’ questions about everything from the Israel-Hamas war to my thoughts on parenting.We discuss whether the war in Gaza has affected my relationships with family members and friends; what I think about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; whether the Democrats should have voted to keep Kevin McCarthy as House speaker; how worried I am about a Trump vict...2023-12-1956 minThe Ezra Klein Show‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’Here are two thoughts I believe need to be held at once: Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7 was heinous, murderous and unforgivable, and that makes it more, not less, important to try to understand what Hamas is, how it sees itself and how it presents itself to Palestinians.Tareq Baconi is the author of “Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance,” one of the best books on Hamas’s rise and recent history. He’s done extensive work interviewing members of Hamas and mapping the organization’s beliefs and structure.In this conversation, we discuss t...2023-12-051h 03The Ezra Klein ShowA Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT. A lot has happened since. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, recently dominated headlines again after the nonprofit board of directors fired C.E.O. Sam Altman, only for him to return several days later.But that drama isn’t actually the most important thing going on in the A.I. world, which hasn’t slowed down over the past year, even as people are still discovering ChatGPT for the first time and reckoning with all of its implications.Tech journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are...2023-12-011h 10The Ezra Klein ShowThe Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace EffortsIt is too early to talk about a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. With the trauma of Oct. 7 still fresh for the Israeli public and with the ongoing devastation in Gaza, any talk of conflict-ending solutions is cruel fantasy.But it wasn’t always. Peace efforts in the Middle East have been tried over and over again. It is not a history without breakthroughs. There was a time when a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt would have been unthinkable. But that agreement lives alongside a long list of collapsed negotiations. Why?I wa...2023-11-211h 09The Ezra Klein ShowThe Sermons I Needed to Hear Right NowThis is a conversation about the relationship between Jewishness and the Jewish State. About believing some aspects of Israel have become indefensible and also believing that Israel itself must be defended. About what it means when a religion built on the lessons of exile creates a state that inflicts exile on others. About the ugly, recurrent reality of antisemitism.You know, the easy stuff.In these past few months, I’ve been moved by the sermons of Rabbi Sharon Brous, which have managed to hold these paradoxes with more grace and prophetic wisdom than most. Br...2023-11-1756 minThe Ezra Klein ShowWhat Israelis Fear the World Does Not UnderstandEarlier this week, we heard a Palestinian perspective on the conflict. Today, I wanted to have on an Israeli perspective.Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author, most recently, of “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”In this episode, we discuss Halevi’s unusual education as an Israeli Defense Forces soldier in Gaza during the first intifada, the “seminal disconnect” between how Israel is viewed from the inside versus from the outside, Halevi’s view that a Palestinian state is both an “existential need” and an “existential threat...2023-11-101h 04The Ezra Klein ShowAn Intense, Searching Conversation With Amjad IraqiBefore there can be any kind of stable coexistence of people in Israel and Palestine, there will have to be a stable coexistence of narratives. And that’s what we’ll be attempting this week on the show: to look at both the present and the past through Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. The point is not to choose between them. The point is to really listen to them. Even — especially — when what’s being said is hard for us to hear.Our first episode is with Amjad Iraqi, a senior editor at +972 magazine and a policy analyst at the Al...2023-11-071h 05The Ezra Klein ShowShe Polled Gazans on Oct. 6. Here’s What She Found.The day before Hamas’s horrific attacks in Israel, the Arab Barometer, one of the leading polling operations in the Arab world, was finishing up a survey of public opinion in Gaza.The result is a remarkable snapshot of how Gazans felt about Hamas and hoped the conflict with Israel would end. And what Gazans were thinking on Oct. 6 matters, now that they’re all living with the brutal consequences of what Hamas did on Oct. 7.So I invited on the show Amaney Jamal, the dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and...2023-11-0345 minThe Ezra Klein ShowThe Conflicted Legacy of Mitt RomneyAfter factional infighting dominated the G.O.P.’s struggle to elect a House speaker, it feels weirdly quaint to revisit Mitt Romney’s career. He’s served as governor, U.S. senator and presidential nominee for a Republican Party now nearly unrecognizable from what it was when he started out. At the end of his time in public office, Romney has found a new clarity in his identity as the consummate institutionalist in an increasingly anti-constitutionalist party. But as a newly published biography of him shows, that wasn’t always the case.McKay Coppins, a staff writer a...2023-10-271h 07The Ezra Klein ShowMeet the ‘Angry, Aggrieved’ New RightThe New Right has been associated with everyone from Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri to right-wing influencers and Catholic integralists. The breadth of the term can make it hard to define: Is the New Right a budding ideological movement or a toxic online subculture? What does it mean if it’s both?Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at the magazine Reason, and has covered the New Right extensively. She argues that the New Right subverts the conventional left/right political binary and is better understood as the illiberal backlash to classical liberalism.This conversation is...2023-10-0353 minThe Ezra Klein ShowTwo Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s IndictmentsWith four ongoing criminal investigations, Donald Trump is the most indicted president in U.S. history. After years of defying unwritten norms, he will now be subject to a criminal justice system defined by norms and precedents. What does due process look like for a former president?Ken White is a former federal prosecutor, a practicing criminal defense lawyer and a co-host of the podcast “Serious Trouble.” He writes the popular newsletter The Popehat Report, extensively covering the ins and outs of criminal trials. Among the many commentators on Trump’s unprecedented legal troubles, White stands out for hi...2023-09-2655 minThe Ezra Klein ShowAmerica’s Top Librarian on the Rise of Book BansPublic libraries around the country have become major battlegrounds for today’s culture wars. In 2022, the American Library Association noted a record 1,269 attempts at censorship — almost double the number recorded in 2021. Library events like drag story times and other children’s programming have also attracted protest. How should we understand these efforts to control what stories children can freely access?Emily Drabinski is the president of the American Library Association and an associate professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is steering an embattled organization at a moment when libraries — and libraria...2023-09-1247 minThe Ezra Klein ShowWhat Have We Learned From a Summer of Climate Reckoning?This summer has been a parade of broken climate records. June was the hottest June and July was not just the hottest July but the hottest month ever on record. At the same time, it looks like we are at the start of a green revolution: Decarbonization efforts have gone far better than what many had hoped for just a few years ago, and renewable energy is getting cheaper.How should we make sense of these seemingly mixed signals? What does it mean to hold the pessimism of climate disaster and the optimism of climate action together?2023-09-051h 04The Ezra Klein ShowIt’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’Should schools have been closed down? Were lockdowns a mistake? Was masking even effective? Was the economic stimulus too big?These are the questions that have defined the national conversation about Covid in recent months. They have been the subject of congressional hearings led by Republicans, of G.O.P. candidate stump speeches and of too many Twitter debates to count.Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.” In her telling, the revisi...2023-08-291h 03The Ezra Klein ShowThis Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their DistrustYou can’t understand the modern Republican Party without understanding the complete collapse of trust in mainstream institutions that has taken place among its voters over the last half-century.In 1964, 73 percent of Republicans said they trusted the federal government to do the right thing always or most of the time. Today, that number is down to 9 percent. And it’s not just government. Pew found that only 35 percent of Republicans trust national news and 61 percent think public schools are having a negative effect on the country. Many of the issues animating the modern right — from fights over school...2023-08-1554 minThe Ezra Klein ShowA Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016The 2024 Republican presidential primary is officially underway, and Donald Trump is dominating the field. But this is a very different contest than it was in 2016. Back then, the Republican Party was the party of foreign policy interventionism, free trade and cutting entitlements, and Trump was the insurgent outsider unafraid to buck the consensus. Today, Trump and his views have become the consensus.The primary, then, raises some important questions: How has Donald Trump changed the Republican Party over the past eight years? Is Trumpism an actual set of policy views or just a political aesthetic? And if...2023-08-0856 minThe Ezra Klein ShowBarbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on AppalachiaWhen Barbara Kingsolver set out to write her latest novel, “Demon Copperhead,” she was already considered one of the most accomplished writers of our time. She had won awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction and a National Humanities Medal, and had a track record of best-selling books, including “The Poisonwood Bible” and “Unsheltered.” But she felt there was one giant stone left unturned: to write “the great Appalachian novel.”Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and lives in southwestern Virginia. Appalachia is her home. So when national coverage of her region started increasing in the years since 2016...2023-07-211h 01The Ezra Klein ShowWhat We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in DecadesCalifornia has around half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless population. The state’s homelessness crisis has become a talking point for Republicans and a warning sign for Democrats in blue cities and states across the country.Last month, the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, released a landmark report about homelessness in the state, drawing from nearly 3,200 questionnaires and 365 in-depth interviews. It is the single deepest study on homelessness in America in decades. And the report is packed with findings that shed new light not only on California’s homelessness proble...2023-07-181h 02The Ezra Klein ShowA.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.Since the release of ChatGPT, huge amounts of attention and funding have been directed toward chatbots. These A.I. systems are trained on copious amounts of human-generated data and designed to predict the next word in a given sentence. They are hilarious and eerie and at times dangerous.But what if, instead of building A.I. systems that mimic humans, we built those systems to solve some of the most vexing problems facing humanity?In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold, an A.I. system that uses deep learning to solve one of the most important challenges...2023-07-111h 28The Ezra Klein ShowThis Taught Me a Lot About How Decarbonization Is Really GoingThe Inflation Reduction Act was the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed in the United States, setting aside hundreds of billions of dollars for decarbonizing the economy. But the money was always just a first step. The fate of the act’s goals hinges on whether those investments can build the energy system of the future — everything from transmission lines and wind farms to electric vehicle factories and green hydrogen hubs.It’s now been almost a year since the I.R.A.’s passage. So, how’s it going? Are we on track for a decarboniz...2023-07-071h 29The Ezra Klein ShowWhat’s Really Going On in Russia?Last weekend, in the course of about 36 hours, Vladimir Putin faced — and then survived — one of the most serious challenges to his rule in over 20 years. An armed rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a Russian mercenary group, took control of a southern military town, and then advanced toward Moscow, coming within about 125 miles of the city. Then, as suddenly as the rebellion began, it was over: Prigozhin was quickly exiled to Belarus without facing criminal charges — an outcome that shocked many Russia watchers.Why did Prigozhin stage this rebellion in the first palace? Why did Pu...2023-06-301h 08The Ezra Klein ShowHow ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Better HumansOne of the oldest human ideas is that we are somehow different from animals, somehow superior to them. That’s a mistake, argues the environmental philosopher Melanie Challenger. “Many of the things we most value — our relationships, the romantic sensations of attraction and love, pregnancy and childbirth, the pleasures of springtime, of eating a meal — are physical, largely unconscious and demonstrably animal,” she writes in her book “How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human.” The consequences of resisting our fellowship with other species, she argues, have been devastating to them and to the planet.2023-06-2742 minThe Ezra Klein ShowWhy This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000“Wealth is the paramount indicator of economic prosperity and well-being,” says the economist Darrick Hamilton. He’s right. Policy analysis tends to focus on income, but it is wealth that often determines whether we can send our kids to college, pay for an illness, quit a job, start a business or make a down payment on a home. Wealth is also the source of some of our deepest social inequalities: The top 10 percent of households in the U.S. own about 70 percent of the nation’s wealth, and the typical Black family has about one-tenth the wealth of the typical...2023-06-2352 minThe Ezra Klein ShowWhy Do So Few Democrats Want Biden to Run in 2024?A recent AP-NORC poll found that just a quarter of voters, including only around half of Democrats, want to see Joe Biden run for president again. Many voters are concerned about his age in particular.That’s a problem for Biden, but it’s not as unusual as it might seem. In 1982, only 37 percent of voters wanted Ronald Reagan, another older president, to run again; he then won the 1984 election in a landslide. And Biden also has a lot going for him: a better-than-expected midterm performance, an impressive record of legislative achievement and a track record of defe...2023-06-161h 02The Ezra Klein ShowWhat Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal“Today’s future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives,” writes Kristen Ghodsee. Even our most ambitious visions of utopia tend to focus on outcomes that can be achieved through public policy — things like abundant clean energy or liberation from employment — while ignoring many of the aspects of our lives that matter to us the most: how we live, raise our children, and tend to our most meaningful relationships.Ghodsee’s new book, “Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life,” is an a...2023-06-091h 10The Ezra Klein ShowBeyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the MindSome thoughts on how humans think, how economies grow and why the technologies we think will help so often hurt.Column:“Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind” by Ezra KleinEpisode Recommendations:Maryanne Wolf on how reading shapes our brainsCal Newport on the problems with the way we workMy A.M.A. on A.I.Gary Marcus on the limits of A.I.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more...2023-06-0418 minThe Ezra Klein ShowMatter of Opinion: A Look at the 2024 G.O.P. Primary FieldToday we’re bringing you an episode from the latest New York Times Opinion podcast, “Matter of Opinion.” It’s a chat show, hosted by my colleagues Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen. Each week, they discuss an issue in the news, the culture or their own work and try to make sense of what is a weird and fascinating time to be alive.In this episode, the hosts take a tour of the 2024 Republican primary field to understand what it takes to survive in the present-day Republican ecosystem — and maybe even beat the Trump in t...2023-05-3032 minThe Ezra Klein ShowIf You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’Here’s a little experiment. Take a second to think about how you would fill in the blank in this sentence: “I am _____.”If you’re anything like me, the first descriptors that come to mind are personal attributes (like “curious” or “kind”) or identities (like “a journalist” or “a runner”). And if you answered that way, then I have some news for you: You are weird.I mean that in a very specific way. In social science, WEIRD is an acronym that stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Most societies in the world today — and throug...2023-05-261h 11The Ezra Klein ShowThe Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2The data is clear: Levels of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide have spiked for American teenagers over the last decade. Last Friday’s episode with the psychologist Jean Twenge sifted through that data to uncover both the scale of the crisis and its possible causes. Today’s episode focuses on the experiences behind that data: the individuals who are struggling, and what we can do as friends, parents and a broader society to help them.Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist, the co-host of the podcast “Ask Lisa” and the author of books including “The Emotional Lives of Teenage...2023-05-231h 08The Ezra Klein ShowDemocrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in CaliforniaCalifornia is a land of contrasts. The state is home to staggering wealth, world-remaking tech companies, and some of the world’s boldest climate policy. It also has immense income inequality, arguably the worst housing crisis in the country, and the highest poverty rate in the nation when you factor in housing costs.The dysfunction of our national politics is often attributed to division and gridlock. But in California, Democrats are at the wheel. No Republican has held statewide office in over a decade. And in many major cities — Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example — Republicans have l...2023-04-281h 18The Ezra Klein ShowWhat Biden’s Top A.I. Thinker Concluded We Should DoIn October, the White House released a 70-plus-page document called the “Blueprint for an A.I. Bill of Rights.” The document’s ambition was sweeping. It called for the right for individuals to “opt out” from automated systems in favor of human ones, the right to a clear explanation as to why a given A.I. system made the decision it did, and the right for the public to give input on how A.I. systems are developed and deployed.For the most part, the blueprint isn’t enforceable by law. But if it did become law, it would tra...2023-04-111h 13The Ezra Klein ShowWhy A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the EconomyTypically when we put out a call for audience questions, there’s no single topic that dominates. This time was different. The questions we received were overwhelmingly focused on artificial intelligence: Do A.I. systems pose an existential threat to humanity? Will robots take our jobs? How could these machines potentially make our lives — and the lives of our children — better?So I asked the show’s senior editor, Roge Karma, to join me to talk through them. We also discuss my mixed feelings about the calls to “pause” A.I. development, why I’m less worried about rogue A...2023-04-071h 03The Ezra Klein ShowWhy Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes NextLast Friday, in the largest bank failure since 2008, Silicon Valley Bank failed.Banks fail all the time. But unless it’s a big or highly-connected bank, most of us don’t pay much attention. That’s because at the average bank, about half of all accounts are F.D.I.C.-insured. That means, if a typical bank fails, the F.D.I.C. will step in and pay every depositor back up to $250,000.But Silicon Valley Bank was not a typical bank. It seems that only around a single digit percentage of accounts were under...2023-03-1658 minThe Ezra Klein ShowThe Men — and Boys — Are Not AlrightIn 1972, when Congress passed Title IX to tackle gender equity in education, men were 13 percentage points more likely to hold bachelor’s degrees than women; today women are 15 points more likely to do so than men. The median real hourly wage for working men is lower today than it was in the 1970s. And men account for almost three out of four “deaths of despair,” from overdose or suicide.These are just a sample of the array of dizzying statistics that suffuse Richard Reeves’s book “Of Boys and Men.” We’re used to thinking about gender inequality as...2023-03-101h 58The Ezra Klein ShowThe Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World“Poetry is the attempt to understand fully what is real, what is present, what is imaginable, what is feelable, and how can I loosen the grip of what I already know to find some new, changed relationship,” the poet Jane Hirshfield tells me. Through poetry, she says, “I know something new and I have been changed.”Hirshfield is the award-winning author of many books of poetry and two illuminating essay collections about what poetry does to us and in the world: “Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry” and “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.” Her book “Ledger...2023-03-031h 20The Ezra Klein ShowOur Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of FoodOur society’s dominant narrative is that body size is a product of individual willpower. We are skinny or fat because of the choices we make: the kinds of food we buy, the amounts we eat, the exercise regimens we follow.Research has never been kind to this thesis. It’s a folk narrative we use to punish people, not an empirical account of why residents of most rich countries are getting heavier over time. But, then, what account does fit the data?In his 2017 book, “The Hungry Brain,” Stephan Guyenet, a neurobiologist, argues that weight g...2023-02-281h 26The Ezra Klein ShowInside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial IntelligenceAdrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” is about an advanced civilization built by sentient spiders. A sequel, “Children of Ruin,” is about a society run by superintelligent octopuses. I love these books. They’re remarkably serious about their premises, and by the end, it’s human civilization and our limited sensorium that come to seem strange.But Tchaikovsky’s latest book, “Children of Memory,” ostensibly about crows, read as something very different to me: the best fictional representation I’ve read of what it is like to interact with, and perhaps even be, an artificial intelligence system like ChatGPT. It was a...2023-02-241h 02The Ezra Klein ShowThis Book Changed My Relationship to PainPhysical pain is a universal human experience. And for many of us, it’s a constant one. Roughly 20 percent of American adults — some 50 million people — suffer from a form of chronic pain. For some, that means having terrible days from time to time. For others, it means a life of constant suffering. Either way, the depth and scale of pain in our society is a massive problem.But what if much of how we understand pain — and how to treat it — is wrong?Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco...2023-02-211h 04The Ezra Klein ShowThe Inflation Story Has Changed Dramatically. Paul Krugman Breaks It Down.In recent months, the story of the U.S. economy has changed significantly. The January Consumer Price Index showed that annual inflation slowed for the seventh straight month. That month, the economy also added over half a million jobs, and unemployment reached 3.4 percent, its lowest level since 1969. In light of these trends, comparisons to the 1970s stagflation crisis have weakened, and the possibility of a “soft landing” looks increasingly likely.But that doesn’t mean we’ve achieved victory. While the headline inflation numbers have looked promising, the devil is in the details. Answers to questions like how fast...2023-02-171h 17The Ezra Klein ShowHow the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really WorksFor most of us, seeing an advertisement pop up while we’re scrolling on Instagram or reading an article or watching a video is the most banal experience possible. But in the background of those experiences is a $500 billion marketplace where our attention is being bought, packaged and sold at split-second speeds virtually every minute of every day. Online advertising is the economic engine of the internet, and that engine is fueled by our attention.Tim Hwang is the former global public policy lead for A.I. and machine learning at Google and the author of the bo...2023-02-141h 06The Ezra Klein ShowThe Tao of Rick RubinReading Rick Rubin’s production discography is like taking a tour through the commanding heights of American music over the past few decades. Jay-Z. Run-DMC. Beastie Boys. Slayer. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Johnny Cash. Kanye West. Neil Diamond. Brandi Carlile. Eminem. Adele. And it’s not just his production credits: Rubin co-founded Def Jam Recordings and was a co-chairman of Columbia Records. What’s allowed him to work with so many different kinds of artists, across such a stunning range of genres, so successfully?In his new book, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” Rubin turns his...2023-02-101h 29The Ezra Klein ShowHow Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling GovernmentIn my columns and on this show over the past few years, I’ve argued that to achieve the goals liberals hold most dear, we need a liberalism that builds. A liberalism that builds everything from multifamily housing and mass transit systems to transmission lines and solar farms. And we need a liberalism that can build it all quickly, cheaply and effectively. But even in the places where liberals have governing power, they are often failing to do exactly that. Why?Nicholas Bagley is a law professor at the University of Michigan, the former chief legal counsel to...2023-02-071h 20The Ezra Klein ShowBest Of: Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue StatesEzra is out sick, so today, we’re sharing one of our favorite conversations — with Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution whose 2022 book “Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems,” is perhaps the best, clearest overview of America’s housing problems to date.In this conversation, recorded in July 2022, Schuetz breaks down the politics and policies that have contributed to America’s multiple housing crises — from housing shortages and high homelessness rates in major cities to the increasing elusiveness of homeownership for many young Americans. We discuss why the states with the hig...2023-02-031h 16The Ezra Klein ShowFirst Person: How the Left Is Cannibalizing Its Own PowerEzra is out sick, so today, we're sharing an episode from the New York Times Opinion podcast, “First Person.” Each week, the host Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down with people living through the headlines for intimate and surprising conversations that help us make sense of our complicated world. This episode features Maurice Mitchell, the head of the Working Families Party.Mitchell has been an organizer for two decades, working in progressive politics and the Movement for Black Lives. In recent years, he’s watched progressive organizations torn apart by internal battles in the wake of #MeToo and B.L.M. N...2023-01-3136 minThe Ezra Klein ShowA Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises“Capitalism, it turns out, is more than just the exchange of goods in a market economy,” Katharina Pistor writes. “It is a market economy in which some assets are placed on legal steroids.”Pistor is a professor of comparative law at Columbia Law School, the director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University and the author of “The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality.” In the book, Pistor argues that economic value isn’t just captured by markets; it is created by the legal system. An asset like a piece of land or a m...2023-01-131h 34The Ezra Klein ShowA Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Trump Enabler“What would you do for your relevance?” the political journalist Mark Leibovich asks in his new book, “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission.” “How badly did you want into the clubhouse, no matter how wretched it became inside?” For Leibovich, you can’t truly understand the current Republican Party without taking stock of the almost Shakespearean drama that unfolded during the Trump presidency — in which Republican after Republican bowed to the will of their ascendant party leader.Through his extensive — and often quite colorful — reporting with Trump’s inner circle of enablers, Leibovic...2022-10-251h 05The Ezra Klein ShowThere’s Been a ‘Regime Change’ in How Democrats Think About ElectionsAccording to the conventional rules of politics, Democrats should be on track for electoral disaster this November. Joe Biden’s approval rating is stuck around 42 percent, inflation is still sky-high and midterms usually swing against the incumbent president’s party — a recipe for the kind of political wipeouts we saw in 2018, 2010 and 1994.But that’s not what the polls show. Currently, Democrats are on track to hold the Senate and lose narrowly in the House, which raises all kinds of questions: Why are Republicans failing to capitalize on such a favorable set of circumstances? How did Democrats get them...2022-10-211h 12The Ezra Klein ShowEthereum’s Founder on What Crypto Can — and Can’t — DoWhen most people hear “crypto,” the first thing they think of is “currencies.” Cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. And they’ve given rise to an entire ecosystem of financial speculation, get rich quick schemes, and in some cases outright fraud.But there’s another side of crypto that gets less attention: the segment of the community that is interested in the way the technology that powers crypto can decentralize decision making, make institutions more transparent and transform the way organizations are governed. That’s the side I find far more interesting.There are fe...2022-09-301h 37The Ezra Klein ShowWhy Russia Is Losing the War in UkraineWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the question most analysts were asking was not whether Russia would win. It was how fast. On almost every quantifiable metric from military strength to economic size Russia has decisive advantages over Ukraine. A swift Russian victory appeared inevitable.Of course, that swift victory didn’t happen. And in recent weeks, the direction of the war has begun to tilt in Ukraine’s direction. On Sept. 6, the Ukrainian military launched a counteroffensive near Kharkiv in northern Ukraine and regained 3,400 square miles of territory in a week — more territory than Russia had captur...2022-09-231h 17The Ezra Klein ShowThe Subtle Art of Appreciating ‘Difficult Beauty’When is the last time you paused — truly paused the flow of life — to appreciate something beautiful? For as long as we know, humans have sought out beauty, believing deeply that beautiful things and experiences can enhance our lives. But what does beauty really do to us? How can it fundamentally alter our experience of the world?Beauty is always “teaching me something about my own mind,” says the writer and philosopher Chloé Cooper Jones. In her book, “Easy Beauty,” Jones takes readers on a journey across the globe and into her intimate family life to explore what beauty h...2022-09-061h 14The Ezra Klein ShowHow Do We Face Loss With Dignity?In his latest work, “The Last White Man,” the award-winning writer Mohsin Hamid imagines a world that is very like our own, with one major exception: On various days, white people wake up to discover that their skin is no longer white. It’s a heavy premise, but one of Hamid’s unique talents as a novelist is his ability to take on the most difficult of topics — racism, migration, loss — with a remarkably light touch.“How do you begin to have these conversations in a way that allows everybody a way in?” Hamid asks at one point in our con...2022-08-121h 16The Ezra Klein ShowThree Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your LifeToday’s show is built around three simple sentences: “Future people count. There could be a lot of them. And we can make their lives better.” Those sentences form the foundation of an ethical framework known as “longtermism.” They might sound obvious, but to take them seriously is a truly radical endeavor — one with the power to change the world and even your life.That second sentence is where things start to get wild. It’s possible that there could be tens of trillions of future people, that future people could outnumber current people by a ratio of something l...2022-08-091h 08The Ezra Klein ShowGender Is Complicated for All of Us. Let’s Talk About It.It’s hard to think of anything changing more quickly in our society right now than our understanding of gender. There’s an explosion of young people identifying as gender nonconforming in some way or another, and others are coming out as transgender or nonbinary throughout their lives, from childhood to old age. But this sea change has brought with it an enormous amount of confusion and resistance. As of July, lawmakers in 21 states had introduced bills that focus on restricting gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, such as hormone blockers, and 29 states had introduced bills banning transgender youth from...2022-08-051h 15The Ezra Klein ShowWhy Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue StatesAmerica is experiencing a housing crisis — or, more accurately, multiple housing crises. A massive housing shortage in major cities has resulted in skyrocketing rents. Low- and middle-income individuals find themselves priced out of the places with the most opportunity. Homelessness is rampant in cities across the country. Developers often face the steepest obstacles to building in the places where new housing is needed most. And young people are increasingly viewing homeownership, once a vital part of the American dream, as hopelessly out of reach.These outcomes weren’t inevitable. Plenty of other countries supply their populations with high...2022-07-191h 16
Música con ÑManuel Alejandro, Sonia y Selena y LODVGEn esta segunda entrega descubrimos al compositor Manuel Alejandro, que ha escrito canciones para grandes figuras de la música en español como Raphael, Luis Miguel o Rocío Jurado, entre otras. También recuperamos el éxito que tuvieron Sonia y Selena con su tema "Yo quiero bailar", que aun a día de hoy seguimos escuchando en bares y discotecas. Iñaki Ainciburu, nuestro campeón de "Desacordes" de la semana pasada, se enfrenta en esta ocasión a Ana Castaño y, por último, Nacho Herrero, nuestro experto en música española, reabre el debate sobre el grup...2021-04-2728 min