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In today's episode, Andy & DJ talk about the security agreement between the US and Ukraine, AstraZeneca admitting that it's COVID vaccine can cause rare side effects in its tense legal fight with the victims, and President Biden telling jokes on his campaign trail.

Rob is again joined by Brexit champion Nigel Farage as he shares his incredible journey from being debanked to thriving in the jungle on "I'm a Celebrity." Farage fearlessly tackles globalism, entrepreneurship, and the future of British politics. Discover the secrets behind his resilience, his friendship with Trump, and his potential return to the political arena in this must-listen interview.

Nigel Reveals

• Why he was debanked by NatWest after 43 years
• The discrimination against the right wing in the UK
• Why Globalism, driven by unelected bodies like the IMF and EU, diminishes the power of nation-states and benefits big businesses.
• Why he backs Donald Trump
• His honest thoughts on the Liz Truss budget
• What it takes to be successful in politics and business
• Why money provides freedom
• Why he is considering re-entering politics

BEST MOMENTS

"The corporate world in Britain has been completely infested with uber liberal, left wing, diversity, inclusion, cobblers. Absolute cobblers. And they feel it's okay to discriminate against you on the basis of your views."

"The thought that somebody, just because they're related to me, has a business account closed, frankly, is monstrous."

"From 2030, under Jeremy Hunt's plans, there will be a central bank digital currency. If they can control your bank account, if they can control your freedom, you might as well be living under communism."

"Never believe the BBC because they will all tell you that cryptocurrencies are valueless and a flash in the pan. They're not."

"Look, you know, one thing Trump did in his first term, he got people in senior positions in government who'd never been in politics before. But had been massively successful businessmen and businesswomen who built corporations, who paid lots of tax."

"Unless you create wealth, you can't have hospitals. You can't have schools. You have to create wealth. And Trump understands that. I'm not, I'm not actually sure that the current Labour and Conservative parties get it."

"Living in a democratic nation state is a damn sight better than any other form of life that mankind, in its two million years of evolution, has yet come up with."

"There is no substitute in life for sheer, honest, hard work. And that may be a message that people don't want to hear. Because they want to think, no, there is a piece of magic I can grab."

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Join Calum Macdonald, Geoff Aberdein and Andy Maciver for a Holyrood Sources podcast special. We’re bringing together guests who have been at the heart of the story of devolution over the last 25 years to reflect on how devolution happened, what’s happened since and what should happen next. As part of the night, we’ll reveal the results of exclusive polling assessing how people across Scotland view devolution, 25 years since the establishment of The Scottish Parliament.

In part one:

Fergus Ewing,

Wendy Alexander,

Henry McLeish,

Jim Wallace,

Lorraine Davidson

Jack McConnell,

Mark Diffley,

Nicola McEwen

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Kentucky has passed some of the strictest anti-trans and anti-abortion bills in the country, but is that really what Kentuckians want? Desi Lydic returns to her home state to ask locals how they feel about their lawmakers and finds out how people are trying to make the state better. And in Long Story Short, Desi warns about the dangerous trappings of the "wellness" industry, from expensive snake oil products to dangerous medical alternative trends.

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Across the world, developed nations have locked themselves into unsustainable, energy-intensive lifestyles. As environmental collapse threatens, the journalist Noah Gallagher Shannon explores the lessons in sustainability that can be learned from looking “at smaller, perhaps even less prosperous nations” such as Uruguay.

“The task of shrinking our societal footprint is the most urgent problem of our era — and perhaps the most intractable,” writes Shannon, who explains that the problem of reducing our footprints further “isn’t that we don’t have models of sustainable living; it’s that few exist without poverty.”

Tracing Uruguay’s sustainability, Shannon shows how a relatively small population size and concentration (about half of the country’s 3.5 million people live in Montevideo, the capital) had long provided the country with a collective sense of purpose. He also shows how in such a tight-knit country, the inequalities reach a rapid boil, quoting a slogan of a Marxist-Leninist group called the Tupamaros: “Everybody dances or nobody dances.”

Looking for answers to both a structural and existential problem, Shannon questions what it would take to achieve energy independence.

This story was written by Noah Gallagher Shannon and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

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On today’s episode, Ben shares his rich insights on the U.S.’s current macro landscape by taking us through a brief history of the past, why our political coordination game is broken, and of course–who’s stealing the wealth.

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7:43 Unique Time in History?
11:56 Repricing Money
18:48 What’s Different?
22:24 US Wealth Growth vs. US GDP Growth
30:55 Hollowness
42:06 Stealing the Future
50:09 Kicking the Can Down the Road
55:23 The Widening Gyre
1:00:48 Political Coordination Game
1:06:26 Constitutional Apportionment Amendment
1:12:27 Common Denominators
1:15:14 Bitcoin
1:25:12 Tornado Cash & Freedom Narrative
1:32:53 Do We Have Hope?
1:34:28 Closing & Disclaimers

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Hollowed Out (“Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World”)
https://www.epsilontheory.com/hollow-men-hollow-markets-hollow-world-2/ 

The Widening Gyre
https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-widening-gyre/ 

In Praise of Bitcoin
https://www.epsilontheory.com/in-praise-of-bitcoin/ 

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Bret Speaks with Michael Shellenberger regarding his recent gubernatorial campaign in California. They discuss the difficulty inherent in running for political office outside of the two major parties. In addition, they touch on topics ranging from nuclear power to Covid, and how we might go about escaping the modern predicament we have landed in.

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(01:40) Bret misjudged Michael

(04:20) Sponsors

(05:45) Disappointment from election

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(10:20) IDW for political change and previous elections

(14:32) Andrew Yang and lone wolf disease

(20:55) Third party and hidden tribes report

(31:45) Party identity

(34:40) Lack of endorsements

(41:12) Homelessness coverage is now more balanced

(43:52) Michael Shellenberger on COVID

(45:35) Bret's COVID position

(01:04:20) Critics of Bret's ivm position

(01:13:52) COVID dissidents

(01:18:30) Nuclear weapons

(01:28:10) Nuclear energy

(01:33:52) Energy transitions and fusion

(01:41:30) Spent fuel rods and fuel pools

(01:48:40) Fukushima and Chernobyl

(02:00:32) Deaths from Nuclear, fentanyl, COVID

(02:04:22) Water cooled nuclear plants and coolants

(02:08:25) Human factors and Three Mile Island

(02:11:20) Dealing with spent fuel fires

(02:20:40) Dry cast storage

(02:25:20) Power grid down

(02:37:40) WIPP project

(02:45:50) What would Bret do with energy

(02:50:00) Nuclear war inevitable

(02:59:30) Bret's skepticism

(03:03:00) Wrap up

The Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev recently described the impact of the West’s sanctions on his country as “30 years of economic development thrown into the bin.” He’s not exaggerating. Economists expect the Russian economy to contract by at least 15 percent of G.D.P. this year. Inflation is spiking. An exodus of Russian professionals is underway. Stories of shortages and long lines for basic consumer goods abound.

The U.S. and its allies have turned to sanctions as a way of taking action against Russia’s atrocities without direct military intervention. But to describe these sanctions as anything short of all-out economic warfare is euphemistic. Measures like these might be cloaked in the technocratic language of finance and economics, but the immiseration they cause is anything but abstract.

Nicholas Mulder is a historian at Cornell University and the author of the terrifyingly relevant new book “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.” In it, Mulder focuses on the last time economic warfare was waged at the scale we’re witnessing today, the period between World War I and World War II. And the book’s central lesson is this: We ultimately don’t know what’s going to happen when sanctions of this magnitude collide with the ideologies, myths and political dynamics of a given country. They could persuade the targeted country to back down. But they could also make it so desperate that it becomes more aggressive or lashes out — as Germany and Japan did on the eve of World War II.

So this is a discussion about what kind of weapon sanctions are, whether they actually achieve their goals and how they might shape the future of the Russia-Ukraine conflict — and the world. We also explore how sanctions “weaponize inflation,” whether they could lead to Vladimir Putin’s downfall in Russia, the toll they have taken on the Russian economy, how the West can leverage its sanctions to help bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, whether a European energy embargo could backfire, how this economic war is destabilizing countries around the world, the humanitarian crisis U.S. sanctions are helping create in Afghanistan, and what a foreign policy that didn’t rely so heavily on sanctions could look like.

This episode is guest hosted by Rogé Karma, the staff editor for “The Ezra Klein Show.” Rogé has been with the show since July 2019, when it was based at Vox. He works closely with Ezra on everything related to the show, from editing to interview prep to guest selection. At Vox, he also wrote articles and conducted interviews on topics ranging from policing and racial justice to democracy reform and the coronavirus.

Mentioned:

“The Inflation Weapon: How American Sanctions Harm Iranian Households” by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj 

“Iran, Sanctions and Inflation as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” by Spencer Ackerman 

Oligarchy by Jeffrey A. Winters

“If Joe Biden Doesn’t Change Course, This Will Be His Worst Failure” by Ezra Klein 

Book recommendations:

Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok

The Perfect Fascist by Victoria de Grazia

My Century by Aleksander Wat

Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

This episode contains strong language.

The sound of victory was loud. It was banging pots, honking horns and popping corks as supporters of President-elect Joe Biden celebrated his win.

But loss, too, has a sound. In the days after the U.S. election result was announced, some of the 71 million-plus Americans who backed President Trump are grieving.

Can the country overcome its differences? In discussions with voters in areas both red and blue, we traced the fault lines of the country’s deep rifts.

Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a Times national political reporter, spoke with voters in Mason County, Texas. Robert Jimison, Jessica Cheung and Andy Mills, producers of “The Daily,” and Alix Spiegel, an editor, also reported from across the country.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

Background reading:

• In his victory speech, President-elect Biden vowed to try to unite all Americans, despite ideological differences. But President Trump’s refusal to concede could undermine Mr. Biden’s perceived legitimacy in some corners of the country.
• In the aftermath of the election, a crucial question emerged for divided families and a divided nation: What happens now?

Today on the podcast I welcome along George Monbiot - who is is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner.

George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan; and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40m times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, that he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 50m times.

As we witness an improvement in the crisis and anticipate the relaxation of social distancing, I wanted to talk about the opportunities to learn and reform our political systems that globally have been woefully unprepared and slow to respond.

As we try to recuperate the losses both emotionally, physically and financially I’m trying to cultivate the opinions of thinkers from around the world who have long documented the unfolding crises in society that have now spectacularly revealed themselves to us.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How to harness intrinsic human values of kindness to foster better wellbeing in society
• How cooperation and altruism is hardwired in our neurobiology
• The evolution of humans would have required community and kindness to survive rather than the prevailing narrative of individualism and inequality
• Neoliberalism in politics and how we have evolved over the 20th and 21st century
• The impact of immersing ourselves in a virtual world
• How we address alienation and loneliness, which are the defining conditions of our time.
• The rise in social initiatives and Accidental activists
• What will we reward in a post pandemic era? Those with material wealth and social influence or those who seek to build community and foster relationships?
• Is this an opportunity to build a doughnut economy?
• Big Organising in the wake of the Pandemic

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After years of false starts, the United States has signed a landmark deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. We traveled to the front lines of the war — and to the signing ceremony in Doha, Qatar — to investigate whether peace is actually possible.

Guest: Mujib Mashal, senior correspondent for The New York Times in Afghanistan.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• The agreement between Washington and the Taliban seemed to be an important first step in ending the war in Afghanistan. Then the violence started again.
• Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American envoy and architect of the deal, seemed to have been handed an impossible and thankless assignment. Here’s how he pulled it off.