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The World According to Ezra

The Times columnist, podcast impresario, and would-be Democratic Party uber-reformer recaps the past year in politics—and explains why, despite his ongoing sense of alarm, he’s closing out 2025 feeling moderately hopeful.

Ezra Klein
For Ezra, 2025 was a year in which his sense of alarm over what the Trump administration was doing to our democracy—and the befuddled weakness of the only extant alternative out there, the Democratic Party—seemed to grow more pitched and urgent with each passing day. Photo: Jim Bennett/WireImage
John Heilemann
December 30, 2025

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Back in February of this year, New York Times columnist and podcast juggernaut Ezra Klein posted a video evaluating the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second term. Observing that Trump was following Steve Bannon’s “muzzle velocity” strategy with his deluge of executive orders and DOGE rampage, Ezra noted that the cumulative intended effect was to convince Americans that Trump could do anything he wanted. “Don’t believe him,” Klein urged, in a video that’s racked up 2 million views.