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Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.
Episode 60
Elizabeth Drew is the author of Washington Journal, one of my favorite books about Watergate. Drew covered the story as a reporter for the New Yorker…
9 years ago
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity
Episode 59
Avik Roy advised Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign on health care, ran the policy shop on Rick Perry’s 2016 campaign, and then worked for Marco Rubio after…
9 years ago
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing
Episode 58
Before I launched this podcast, I asked Kara Swisher to coffee. Swisher founded the technology news site Recode, hosts the excellent Recode Decode po…
9 years, 1 month ago
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
Episode 57
Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning Muslim refugees from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, and indefinitely banning them f…
9 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office
Episode 56
There are 500,000 elected positions in the United States. I'll say that again: 500,000. And that's no accident. "Our political system is built on the…
9 years, 1 month ago
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
Episode 55
J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been adopted as the book that explains Trumpism. It's the book that both Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Rob Por…
9 years, 1 month ago
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end
Episode 54
Congressman Keith Ellison is the frontrunner to lead the Democratic National Committee in the Trump era. Ellison has a fascinating backstory: he's th…
9 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
Episode 53
Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a…
9 years, 2 months ago
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
Episode 52
Two weeks before he leaves office, President Obama sits down for a lengthy conversation about the lessons of the Affordable Care Act and the law's un…
9 years, 2 months ago
You Ask, Ezra Answers
Episode 51
At long last, here’s the Ask Ezra Anything episode. You sent in great questions, and I answered as many as I could. To keep me honest — and to make s…
9 years, 2 months ago