u/Radical_Ein

There has been a lot of confusion and debate over what posts are allowed and what should be allowed, so the mod team is asking for your feedback on this topic. Are there posts that we don’t allow that you think we should? Are there posts we allow that you don’t think we should? Is there anyone who we should add/subtract from the “extended universe“? Are there ways we could change the wording of the rule to make it more clear?

This is how the mod team thinks about relevancy now: There are basically 3 kinds of posts: Things produced by Ezra Klein directly (podcasts and articles) or appearances by Ezra on other shows, things produced by people affiliated with Ezra (anyone who has a named post flair), and then everything else.

If you are posting something that isn’t directly from Ezra or includes Ezra you must include a comment explaining how it is relevant to Ezra (the more specific the better), even if you think it is obvious. That helps us to quickly assess whether the posted material is relevant or not, which can be time consuming when what is relevant is a 10 minute segment of an hour long podcast or an article that is behind a paywall. It also helps filter out people who spam articles to any vaguely news or political related subreddit.

Here is an example of the kind of comment we want.

Things we consider relevant include, but not limited to: Direct responses to EK pods and articles, article/podcasts about subjects discussed in recent EKS episodes, articles about Ezra.

Also, we are looking for new mods to help out. Please apply here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/application/

We have entered a world of maximum gerrymandering warfare. Any guardrails that once existed, from the Constitution or the courts, have been bulldozed over the last decade – most recently in the Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act and made it harder for minorities to challenge racially discriminatory voting maps.

Red and blue states alike have been aggressively trying to redraw their congressional maps in response to all these developments. And there is no sign that will end in 2028; legislatures will just continue trying to tweak their lines to squeeze out advantage for whatever party is in power. And competitive districts in this country – already an endangered species – now teeter on extinction.

That is, unless something dramatic changes.

Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the political reform program at New America. He’s one of the most persistent and thoughtful advocates of selecting House members through proportional representation – a system used in many other countries that would make gerrymandering much more difficult. He’s the author of the 2020 book “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America” and writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events.