
Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer.
By Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu
Ezra Klein joined Opinion in 2021. He is the host of the podcast “The Ezra Klein Show” and the author of “Why We’re Polarized” and, with Derek Thompson, “Abundance.” Previously, he was the founder, editor in chief and then editor at large of Vox. Before that, he was a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, where he founded and led the Wonkblog vertical.

The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer.
By Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.
By Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick

Conversation is not a reward to be bestowed on those with whom we agree; it’s a base line practice.
By Ezra Klein

The foreign policy analyst Fareed Zakaria explains how the Iran war has been a turning point in America’s standing in the world.
By Ezra Klein and Annie Galvin

The Iran expert Suzanne Maloney explains why Iran believes it has the upper hand.
By Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

Michael Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked.
By Ezra Klein and Kristin Lin

Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.
By Ezra Klein

The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
By Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

The right-wing thinker Christopher Caldwell believes the Iran war is the end of Trumpism. Is he right? What was Trumpism in the first place?
By Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick

The war with Iran could change how the whole world thinks about energy security in the future. The energy policy expert Jason Bordoff explains.
By Ezra Klein, Annie Galvin and Jack McCordick