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							<title><![CDATA[What Does El-Sayed Believe?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-abdul-el-sayed.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Senate race has emerged as perhaps the most important proving ground for some of the key fights in the Democratic Party right now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hasan Piker Is Not the Enemy]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/3a3YP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the 2024 elections, there was a panic among Democrats about the absence of a liberal Joe Rogan. Could one be found? Could one be created? It was an epic exercise in missing the point. You cannot have a liberal Joe Rogan because Rogan is not particularly political. His audience...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Says Everything Is Great. Who Will Tell Him Otherwise?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/02/26/ezra_klein_trump_says_everything_is_great_who_will_tell_him_otherwise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NYT opinion writer Ezra Klein asks whether President Trump believes what he says about his success:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last February I wrote an essay about the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'muzzle velocity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Muzzle velocity, in its literal sense, describes the ferocious speed of a bullet at the moment it exits the front end of a gun.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is the Way You Beat Trump &mdash; and Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/NlKnx</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inside the Democratic Party '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in its backrooms and its group chats, its conferences and its online flame wars '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an increasingly bitter debate has taken hold.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Dem Brand Turned Radioactive in Rural America]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/NMp1r</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a particular lens worth using right now. As we watch the Trump administration deploying the National Guard from red states into blue cities, we are viewing a rural political coalition militarily occupying urban centers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden-Era Government Red Tape Worse Than Imagined]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/28/jon_stewart_speechless_as_ezra_klein_explains_biden-era_red_tape.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart welcomed NYT columnist Ezra Klein on his "Weekly Show" podcast to stare into the abyss of government regulations that prevented President Biden's "Build Back Better" infrastructure bill from building much of anything at all. Klein is a co-author of the new book, "Abundance,"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tragedy of the Modern Dem Party &amp; How To Fix It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/16/derek_thompson_the_tragedy_of_the_modern_democratic_party_is_they_associate_success_with_how_much_they_spend_not_what_they_build.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Atlantic" writer Derek Thompson and NY Times columnist Ezra Klein spoke about the "tragedy" of the modern Democratic Party, Sunday morning on CNN with Fareed Zakaria.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clyburn Is Right About What Dems Should Do Next]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/07/jim-clyburn-is-right-about-what-democrats-should-do-next/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden faces a problem with no solution. No interview or speech will convince a doubtful public that he is still fit to serve. Perceptions of him had years to harden. In June 2020, 36 percent of voters said Biden was too old to serve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (And What He Should Do)]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/19/seven-theories-for-why-biden-is-losing-and-what-he-should-do-about-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It's the denial of what's behind them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Impossible for Liberalism To Build?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/16/two-theories-of-what-im-getting-wrong/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two smart writers have written thoughtful pieces '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' one from the right, one from the left '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' explaining where I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve gone terribly wrong.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Trying To Co-opt Trump's Biggest Strength]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/02/biden-is-trying-to-co-opt-trumps-biggest-strength/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden just offered a window into what a Biden-Trump rematch might look like. Well, part of it, at least.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['What the Hell Happened to the California of the '50s &amp; '60s?']]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/18/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-california-of-the-50s-and-60s/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time I talked to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he was clearly frustrated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden Can't Just Wave the Debt Limit Away]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/21/liberals-are-persuading-themselves-of-a-debt-ceiling-plan-that-wont-work/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debt ceiling might be the single dumbest feature of American law. Congress decides to spend money and then, later,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Biden 2024 Has That Biden 2020 Didn't]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/19/what-biden-2024-has-that-biden-2020-didnt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no end of commentary gently '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and not so gently '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' urging President Biden to act his age]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for a Progressive Levy on Consumption]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/01/there-is-a-tax-that-could-help-with-inflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inflation often begins as a mismatch of supply and demand. But if people get accustomed to prices rising, then inflation becomes about expectations. And so the task of ending it grows fuzzier: You need to use policy not just to manage the economy but also to alter psychology. The arid...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats See What's Coming?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/opinion/yellen-supply-side-liberalism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They need to realize that America's future does not lie in Europe's past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Got Covid Policy Wrong. How Much Did It Matter?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/opinion/covid-pandemic-policy-trust.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public health is rooted in the soil of trust.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Presidency Isn't Turning Out as Planned]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/opinion/biden-obama-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problems the president is facing are an almost perfect inversion of the problems Obama faced.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Sleepwalking Toward Electoral Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/democrats-david-shor-education-polarization.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His forecasting model shows a looming disaster for Senate Democrats. Are they going to do anything about it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom Much More Than the Lesser of Two Evils]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/newsom-elder-california-recall.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The torrent of policy the governor and the legislature are passing amounts to nothing less than a Green New Deal for the Golden State.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Way We Withdrew From Afghanistan Wasn't the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/opinion/afghanistan-us-withdrawal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our ignominious exit reflects the failure of America's foreign policy establishment at both prediction and policymaking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Different Way of Thinking About Cancel Culture]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/opinion/cancel-culture-social-media.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Social media companies and other organizations are looking out for themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unusually Optimistic Conversation w/Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-bernie-sanders.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Vermont senator discusses the Rescue Act, cancel culture, the filibuster and more.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Strategy: Speak Softly &amp; Pass a Big Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/biden-american-rescue-plan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you can dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Reconciliation, the Filibuster &amp; the Broken Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/democrats-senate-reconciliation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one would ever design a legislative body that worked this way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Here's How to Lose in 2022. And Deserve It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/biden-inauguration-democrats.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You don't get re-elected for things voters don't know about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/opinion/biden-covid-19-plan.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can't help but wonder why the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crisis Isn't Too Much Polarization. It's Too Little Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/21561011/2020-election-joe-biden-donald-trump-electoral-college-vote-senate-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Republicans couldn't win so much power while losing votes, the US wouldn't be in the current crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Attempting a Coup in Plain Sight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/7/21554114/trump-election-2020-voter-fraud-challenge-recount-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ezra Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do we cover it when it's happening here?]]></description>
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