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The Ezra Klein Show (NYT)

Left-leaning national politics. Over-indexes on Gun Policy (24.1×) and Climate Change (18.9×).

As described by the publisher
Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.
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Episodes transcribed
Jun 2026Jul 2026 covered
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Episodes analyzed
31 tone reads — one per figure per episode
Mixed
No clear favorite or target
thin read

What This Tone Is Based On

The tone scores on this page come from analyzing how this show covers each political figure it mentions. Below is the breakdown of how many of those reads were positive, neutral, or negative.

Positive1135%
Neutral929%
Negative1135%

Net media tone Neutral across 31 figure-in-episode tone reads (not audience/impressions).

That average is a partisan split, not genuine neutrality35% of reads are positive and 35% negative, and they cancel to the middle.

How The Ezra Klein Show (NYT) Differs from Other Shows

Overall this show runs more favorable than the rest of the media — mean tone -0.08 vs the media's -0.16.

Coverage Volume

Transcribed episodes per week — last 26 weeks

Sentiment Trajectory

Average weekly tone toward figures — green favorable, red critical

Near-zero tone here is a polarized average — this show boosts one side and attacks the other, which cancels to the middle.

Whose coverage is ramping up — and dropping

Cooling on Donald Trump.

Ramping ↑

Nothing ramping this window.

Backing off ↓ · 1

“Across N days” = distinct days behind the recent count; a single burst means it’s concentrated in ≤2 days — treat as one story, not a trend.

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