This is a nice interview.  Yes, Ezra Klein is partial to Clinton, but that is irrelevant.  The questions are not always softball, and more importantly, she answers them.

Table of contents:

0:00 – Extreme poverty, welfare reform, and the working poor
6:08 – Is it time for more deficit spending?
10:15 – Would more immigration be good for the economy?
19:00 – The difficulties of free college and universal healthcare
26:57 – What skills does a president need that campaigns don’t test?
33:53 – What’s on Hillary’s bookshelf?
38:26 – Why America stopped trusting elites — and what elites should do about it

I agree with Betty Cracker at Balloon Juice:

Watch it — any random five-minute snippet of it, even — and try to imagine Donald Trump answering those types of questions in any detail at all. It is to laugh — he’s all hat and no cattle. But Trump can whip up a crowd!

Also, if you are masochistic enough to glance at the YouTube comments, which are infested with the Trumpenproletariat / Sanders dead-enders (I honestly can’t tell them apart on the topic of Clinton anymore), you’ll see an excellent illustration of the unique challenges Clinton faces as a politician.

One chief complaint is that she doesn’t answer Klein’s questions. But she does — with nuance and impressive detail! What she doesn’t do is answer with applause lines. Is that a failing?

In politics as currently constructed, it sure seems to be. President Obama is both an incredibly inspiring speaker and in command of the policy details — he’s the rare politician with the hat and the cattle. Could Clinton’s relationship-building skills compensate for her lack of oratory talent in a way that would make her just as effective a president as PBO has been? Maybe. I hope we get to find out.