Ezra Klein

This is a very proud moment for journalism. I think The New York Times and The Washington Post are genuine champions in…

— Ezra Klein

“Just as youth is wasted on the young, money is wasted on the rich.”

— Ezra Klein

The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or…

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Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do…

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If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

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A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days.…

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When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount…

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I don't always have the time I wish I had to understand something I don't understand. So I'm trying to do a…

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Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they…

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My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

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The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

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Maintaining news cycle is the job. It's always been the job. This is just more intense. You find out what the story…

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I do think that there is a very unclear level of conduct in the Trump administration. That's one reason you're seeing this…

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The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long…

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We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

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I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be…

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It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

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When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're…

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One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as…

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You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as…

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“Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems”

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Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more…

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When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll say there is that we've learned…

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We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you…

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If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be…

— Ezra Klein