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‘We Should Be Cleareyed About What’s Happening Here’

Troop deployment. Black Hawk helicopters landing on apartment buildings in the middle of the night. President Trump’s militarization of blue cities is well underway — and yet, Jon Favreau argues, it’s natural that it’s not top of mind for every voter. On this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Favreau sits down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss how Democrats should be thinking about that now and heading into the midterms.

October 11, 2025

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America Has Entered an Entirely New Situation

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposes a chilling new reality of the media bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, the New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues. “The only way for the media to resist is to band together to create a joint strategy to agree, for example, never to settle Trump’s lawsuits, to agree to defend one another, to provide individuals with institutional backing even if they weren’t working for a large institution when they were sued,” says Gessen.

September 19, 2025