Ezra Klein is an American liberal political commentator and journalist. Since 2021, he has served as a columnist for the New York Times and hosts The Ezra Klein Show podcast. Klein is a co-founder of Vox, where he previously served as editor-at-large. Before his work at Vox, he held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect. He has also been a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. He has authored two books published by Simon & Schuster: Why We're Polarized, released in January 2020, and Abundance, cowritten with Derek Thompson, published in March 2025.