Abundance

#1 New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025

What if America’s greatest challenges—the housing crisis, climate gridlock, crumbling infrastructure—aren’t signs of inevitable decline, but symptoms of something we can actually fix? From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson comes Abundance, a paradigm-shifting exploration of why we’ve stopped building the future we need, and how we can start again.

This isn’t a book about villains or blame. It’s about recognizing an uncomfortable truth: yesterday’s solutions have become today’s problems. The regulations designed to protect us in the 1970s now prevent the dense, walkable neighborhoods and clean-energy projects we desperately need in the 2020s. Laws meant to make government thoughtful have made it paralyzed. We’ve become brilliant at identifying problems and terrible at solving them.

Abundance offers something rare in our current moment—a clear-eyed path forward that challenges both liberals and conservatives to reckon with what’s not working. Klein and Thompson make the case for a new politics of plenty, one that doesn’t just preserve and protect, but actually builds. In an era when movements of scarcity are gaining power worldwide, this book arrives as both a diagnosis and a cure, meeting our challenges while honoring the frustration so many rightfully feel.

Praised by Barack Obama as “a must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government,” and by David Brooks as “spectacular” and hope-inspiring, this is essential reading for anyone who refuses to accept that our best days are behind us.

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