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The Daily - The Origins of Jeffrey Epstein
The latest release of files related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein left key questions unanswered about his rise to power and his connections to the president.
David Enrich, an investigations editor at The New York Times, explains how he worked with a team of reporters to fill in those mysteries and reveal the truth about Mr. Epstein’s origins.
Guest: David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- The release of the Epstein files revealed new photos, but many files were withheld.
- This is the untold story of how Mr. Epstein got rich.
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The Ezra Klein Show - The Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025
This is the strangest economy I’ve seen in my lifetime. If you just looked at the macro data — the jobs numbers, G.D.P., the stock market — things look pretty normal. But they clearly aren’t normal. The Trump administration spent the year upending the global trade system while tech companies spent hundreds of billions of dollars on A.I., a technology that could potentially displace many of our jobs. And people don’t feel normal, either. Survey data shows that the vibecession rages on.
Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal are the co-hosts of the excellent economics podcast “Odd Lots” and have closely followed all the chaos this year. So I wanted to have them on the show to explain what the hell is going on.
Mentioned:
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
“The Vibecession: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” by Kyla Scanlon
“Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy” by Kyla Scanlon
Book Recommendations:
Breakneck by Dan Wang
North Woods by Daniel Mason
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
The Digital Reversal by Andrey Mir
Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong
No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
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Pod Save America - The 2025 Pundies: Highs & Lows from a Long Year
As the first year of Trump 2.0 limps to a close, it's time to celebrate 2025’s worst takes and funniest moments with The Pundies, Pod Save America's annual awards show! Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy, joined by producer Elijah Cone, debate which political beef of 2024 was the most entertaining, which Trump administration official should be anointed "The Worst," whether this year's Democratic victories were enough to wash away all the pain, and lots more.
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The Gist - Quico Toro: “Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don’t Leave.”
Quico Toro joins to discuss Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses, distinguishing the "parasitic" nature of the charlatan from the hit-and-run tactics of the scammer. He traces the lineage of the grift from the official alchemists of 16th-century Venice to the upsell tactics of Trump University, arguing that loneliness and the internet have created a "target-rich environment" for swindlers. Then, a pivot to the environment: Mike and Quico debate whether the "green halo" around solar and wind constitutes its own form of elite misinformation, and why the villainization of nuclear energy—and the partisanship of climate policy—has stalled real progress.
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1A - Best Of: What Beards Tell Us About Power, Politics And How We See Each Other
Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to sport a beard. For the next 50 years, whiskers were commonplace in the White House. But then, they went out of style.
Now, Vice President JD Vance is the first executive branch leader in more than a century with a furry face.
And others are following suit. From the Senate to the campaign trail, more and more men in politics are letting their facial hair grow free. But what does that tell us about masculinity, power, and how we see each other?
Why did our politicians remain bare faced for so long? And what does the reemergence of whiskers in the White House represent?
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Now, Vice President JD Vance is the first executive branch leader in more than a century with a furry face.
And others are following suit. From the Senate to the campaign trail, more and more men in politics are letting their facial hair grow free. But what does that tell us about masculinity, power, and how we see each other?
Why did our politicians remain bare faced for so long? And what does the reemergence of whiskers in the White House represent?
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The Bulwark Podcast - Bill Kristol: This Is Trump’s Cover-Up
On the Epstein matter, the current DOJ is not just putting its thumb on the scale for Trump. It's his defense team. Make no mistake: The top two officials at the Justice Department are executing Trump's wishes to cover-up the victims' statements and the details about Epstein's 2008 sweetheart deal. It's the president's cover-up, and the mainstream media needs to call it for what it is. And over at CBS's "60 Minutes," Bari Weiss wants Trump to know she's on the administration's side as well. Meanwhile, Vance made clear at AmericaFest that he's cool with literal Nazis in the MAGA coalition as he readies for his 2028 run. Plus, Kushner and Witkoff are still doing Putin's bidding, the governor of Louisiana is adding the (pretend) invasion of Greenland to his portfolio, and Tim reads from the Monday Mailbag.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes
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Bill's "Bulwark on Sunday" with Rep. Ro Khanna on the Epstein files
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Tim on Gavin Newsom's podcast
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Lauren on the DNC burying its 2024 autopsy report
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The LIVE 'Bulwark Take' on the Stefanik crash and burn
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Part of Bob Dole's '96 Republican convention speech that Tim referenced
- Monday Mailbag email: BulwarkPodcast@Thebulwark.com
The Source - How E. Jean Carroll took on President Trump and won
E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist, successfully sued Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation. She joined 'The Source' to discuss her memoir, Not My Type: One Woman Against a President.
Bad Faith - Episode 536 Promo – Compact Carnage (w/ Vijay Prashad)
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Author and journalist Vijay Prashad returns to Bad Faith initially to discuss Venezuela but gets sidetracked by Briahna's frustration with several media happenings from last week: the Compact article "The Lost Generation" arguing that white millennial men have faced discrimination as a consequence of DEI, and Vivek Ramaswamy's New York Times op/ed that attempts to pull the GOP back from its descent into open racism, which often manifests in the use of anti-Indian slurs against Ramaswamy and Second Lady Usha Vance. The two do get to Venezuela eventually, but life is about the journey.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
The Daily - The Messy Reality of ‘Made in America’
The construction of a giant factory complex in Arizona was supposed to embody the Trump administration’s ability to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
But undertaking big projects is not as simple as it seems. Peter S. Goodman, who writes about the intersection of economics and geopolitics for The New York Times, explains why.
Guest: Peter S. Goodman, who covers the global economy for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- Read about the 18,000 or so reasons that make it so hard to build a chip factory in the United States.
Photo: Loren Elliott for The New York Times
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