Ezra Klein

What is the Democratic Party for if not for dealing with a situation like this?

Three Opinion writers weigh in on the first presidential debate of 2024.

It’s not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.

We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But that is only part of the story.

There’s a better way to do email.

The best line in Biden’s State of the Union was a surprise.

They’re built to win in 2024. But what happens afterward?

Israel is losing the support of a generation, not just a few student groups. And it is losing it because of what it does, not what it is.

The middle is collapsing in media.

Most of them didn’t appear this year.

Science fiction writers and A.I. researchers have long feared the machine you can’t turn off.

The reactionary futurism of Marc Andreessen.

Is it impossible for liberalism to build?

The administration is thickly populated with veterans of the Obama and Clinton White Houses. But it doesn’t see itself in comfortable continuity with those legacies.

Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Gavin Newsom wants to build. Not everyone is on board.

DeSantis is trying to show that he has both the will and the discipline to do what Trump did not.

There is no obvious question about the country’s fiscal future that the Republican Party’s current policies propose an answer to.

To make good on its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.

The limit Congress imposes is dumb, but Biden can’t just wave it away.

This is too important to leave to Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

Trouble comes when Democrats try to do everything everywhere all at once.

Banking is a critical form of public infrastructure that we pretend is a private act of risk management.

I have tried to spend time regularly with the people working on A.I. I don’t know that I can convey just how weird that culture is.

We are so stuck on asking what the technology can do that we are missing the more important questions.

The oldest president has an argument about the future.

Why was America — and not just America — better at building in the 1970s?

I, for one, am still loyal to my childhood haunt.

Remember when it was ‘Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line'? Me neither.

We’ve lost sight of the world that abundant, clean energy could make possible.

We need a thoughtful alternative that doesn’t exist yet.

The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried helps us see the movement’s vices, but that shouldn’t blind us to its virtues, either.

Calcification, political parity and cultural backlash brought us where we are.

Here comes the G.O.P.’s calamity caucus

Looking at the midterms as a referendum.

Developing affordable housing projects shouldn’t make a miserable existence for those who’ve devoted their lives to it.

A lot of politicians would have vied with Trump to make the election about them.

The case for a progressive levy on consumption.

A liberalism that is as ambitious about solving problems through invention as it is through redistribution would be powerful indeed.

The president’s legacy — and our climate future — will turn on what actually gets built, and how fast.