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• Trump vs. the Dollar

  The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world relies on our currency has long been understood as our exorbitant privilege — the reason we have so much leverage in the global...

  2 mei 2025 3759 sec.

• Abundance and the Left

  “Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And it’s generated a lot of interesting critiques, too, especially...

  29 apr 2025 4491 sec.

• Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics

  I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It’s about religion and belief – at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally. My guest and I come from very different perspectives. Ross Douthat is a...

  25 apr 2025 5729 sec.

• The Very American Roots of Trumpism

  After last week’s episode, “The Emergency Is Here,” we got a lot of emails. And the most common reply was: You really think we’ll have midterm elections in 2026? Isn’t that naïve? I think we will have midterms. But one reason I think...

  23 apr 2025 4426 sec.

• The Emergency Is Here

  The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a prison built for disappearance, a prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, a prison where the only way out,...

  17 apr 2025 4340 sec.

• Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong

  My colleague Tom Friedman thinks we’re screwed. That’s the first thing he told me when recounting his recent trip to China. It’s not just because of the trade war that President Trump is escalating right now. Friedman believes the...

  15 apr 2025 4092 sec.

• Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next

  After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that far back. He left a 10 percent tariff on most of the world and launched a trade war with China. It’s unclear what he will do after this...

  11 apr 2025 3614 sec.

• Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’

  The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot more confusing. These aren’t the flat tariffs he proposed during the campaign. And they aren’t reciprocal tariffs, as he claimed in his...

  5 apr 2025 3045 sec.

• ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’

  There’s something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states — including California, Florida and Ohio — have passed bills or adopted policies that aim to limit cellphone usage at school. More are expected to...

  1 apr 2025 4292 sec.

• The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics

  It’s our first subscriber-only “Ask Me Anything” of the year. The show’s executive producer, Claire Gordon, joins me to discuss your questions about the risk of a constitutional crisis and how Democrats, businesses and universities are...

  28 mrt 2025 2241 sec.

• What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?

  The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more efficient government? But “efficiency” obfuscates what’s really happening here. Efficiency to what end? Elon Musk, President Trump and...

  25 mrt 2025 4269 sec.

• The Origins of Abundance

  To mark the release of our new book “Abundance,” my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podcast, “Plain English,” to talk about it. We’re on book tour right now, so we’re doing a lot of talking about this book. But this conversation...

  21 mrt 2025 4374 sec.