46 Quotes by Ezra Klein

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

We’re actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

I think we are, or we can be. But toxic systems compromise good individuals with ease. They do so not by demanding we betray our values but by enlisting our values such that we betray each other. What is rational and even moral for us to do individually becomes destructive when done collectively.

A government shutdown, it isn’t the end of the world. It’s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

Partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity, with all the psychological and behavioral magnifications that implies.

As Kahan’s term suggests, our reasoning is most vulnerable when our identities are most threatened. And for many, this is an era of profound threat.