If you find yourself bewildered by this moment where there's so much reason for despair and so much reason to hope all at the same time,
let me say I hear you.
I'm Ezra Klein from New York Times Opinion, host of the Ezra Klein Show.
And for me,
the best way to beat back that bewildered feeling is to talk it out with the people who have ideas and frameworks
for making sense of it.
There is going to be plenty to talk about.
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From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketroev.
This is The Daily.
President Trump pushing ahead with sweeping plans to trim the size of the federal government.
President Trump is ramping up deportations in Democrat-led cities.
The U.S.
has attacked three nuclear sites in Iran.
At the heart of many of President Trump's most controversial policies,
there's been one company, Palantir.
The core mission of our company always was to make the West,
especially America, the strongest in the world, the strongest ever been.
According to Palantir's CEO, the company exists to defend Western ideals.
But to its critics,