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Berkeley Talks: Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)

In this episode of Berkeley Talks, which first ran in October 2023, The New York Times columnist and podcast host discusses the difficulties liberal governments encounter when working to build real things in the real world.

an older man, at left, confers in a medical office with a doctor (at right) who is holding out a prescription vial.

Politics & society

Proposed Medicaid cuts could have devastating impact in California, UC Berkeley analysts say

Group portrait featuring (left to right): Julia Schaletzky, Smriti Mehta and Will Fithian, against the carved-stone backdrop of an elegant old campus building.

Campus & community

With right and left deeply divided, emerging UC Berkeley groups embrace the ‘vital center’

Heather Cox Richardson and Dylan Penningroth speak on stage

Events at Berkeley

Berkeley Talks: Heather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican Party and what gives her hope for America

An illustration shows a man being manipulated like a string puppet by a disembodied hand.

Why conspiracies are so popular — and what we can do to stop them

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

A triptych showing, left to right, Donald Trump at his 2025 inauguration; Giorgia Meloni; and Viktor Orban.

There’s a term for Trump’s political style: authoritarian populism

UC Berkeley research scientist breaks down the TikTok ban

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Expect the worst? Political scientists have a pessimism bias, study finds

From left: Marty Baron and Dean Baquet speak to an audience

Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

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How World War I helps explain what gave rise to Trump’s second term

a student sits at a voter registration table and smiles as another student approaches

Library’s trove of voter data is ‘a window into how our democracy functions’

four headshots of Robert Reich, Maria Echaveste, Janet Napolitano and Angela Glover Blackwell

Berkeley Talks: The future of American democracy

Condoleezza Rice speaking into a microphone while looking into the audience

How the Berkeley Liberty Initiative champions free speech in divided times

A crowd of supporters holding signs and wearing Trump-branded shirts cheer as Donald Trump, blurred in the foreground, walks onto a stage.

Sociologist examines Appalachian voters’ rightward shift, with Trump as their ‘shame shield’

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