Ezra Klein
Founder and editor-at-large, @VoxDotCom
Author, "Why We're Polarized"
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The Supreme Court may disenfranchise you now - Today, Explained
Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for mailed ballots. Good thing it’s not a swing state. Oh, wait ... Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The radical implications of the Supreme Court’s new ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots
The Supreme Court’s new decision on Wisconsin mail-in ballots threatens a century of voting rights law
Sarah Kliff grades Biden’s and Trump’s health care plans
The former Vox reporter returns to The Ezra Klein Show to wonk out on the 2020 health care stakes.
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[Arena goes dark]
BY GAWD THAT @SARAHKLIFF'S MUSIC!
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How racism amplifies Covid-19 risk for everyone
America is unable to contain the surging pandemic because we refuse to reckon with the racial inequities that drive it.
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"We estimate that over the initial 40-day time span, policing and jail/prison churn accounted for between 13 and 18 percent of new infections in most US metro areas. Essential, low-wage work accounted for an additional 50 to 56 percent."
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Cory Booker on Why the Democrats Haven’t Stopped Barrett
The senator from New Jersey talks about Donald Trump, race, and the Supreme Court—and says he thinks he’s “taking up space” in the president’s head.
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"I don’t think I can effectively make that argument of why we should preserve the filibuster at this moment in history." – @CoryBooker
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Cutting Edge Reforms for the Supreme Court
McTwist Limits
In our current system of lifetime appointments, the Court’s makeup hinges on the health of a few elderly justices. Instead of tying ...
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"The necromancers would be chosen by a non-partisan group to avoid partisan necromancers who would pack the court with ideologically homogeneous undead flesh."
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How One Model Simulated 2.2 Million U.S. Deaths from COVID-19
The trouble with being too easily led by models is we can too easily be misled by models. Epidemic models may seem entirely different from economic models or climate models, but they all make terrible forecasts if filled with wrong assumptions and...
Senatorial Saucer | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
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@jbouie So I just got to this, and...
1. This story is apocryphal. monticello.org/site/research-…
2. Even *in* the apocryphal story, it's Washington, not Jefferson, who describes the Senate as a saucer. pic.twitter.com/jWkNe47DSo
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Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
American Affairs editor Julius Krein discusses Donald Trump, 2020, and the decay of the American right on The Ezra Klein Show.
Of Course We’re Not a Democracy | Mike Lee
Our system of government is best described as a constitutional republic.
The Relentless Shrinking of Trump’s Base
As the population of white working-class voters continues to decline, these charts show how demographics are not on President Trump’s side in this election.
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"The number of voting-age white Americans without college degrees has dropped by more than 5m in the past four years, while the number of minority voters and college-educated white voters has collectively increased by more than 13m in the same period."
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How conspiracy theories like QAnon spilled into the mainstream
Andrew Marantz on Facebook, tech ideology, and the spread of hate on the internet.
The fight is for democracy
The stakes of this election are so high because the system itself is at stake.
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America is not a democracy, and Republicans want to keep it that way. America is not a democracy, and Democrats want to make it one, or at least more of one.
This is the fight behind the fight, the battle that will decide all the others.
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A party that keeps winning power as it fails to win over voters will quickly turn against democracy itself. And when that happens, it will use the power it has to make it yet easier to win power without winning voters.
And so the Republican Party is.
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Which leads to this piece, which I won't try to summarize in total here: The stakes of this election are so high because the system itself is at stake.
Both sides intend to use power to change the political system itself, and the GOP is already doing so.
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D.C. among first in nation to require child-care workers to get college degrees
The city is at the forefront of a research-based movement to train providers like elementary school teachers. But they are still paid like babysitters.
What It Looks Like to Care for Separated Migrant Children
Caitlin Dickerson, a reporter for The Times, reflects on the experience of a 24-year-old woman caring for children separated from their parents along the southwestern border.
2020’s psychedelic drug ballot measures, explained
Oregon and Washington, DC, voters may relax their laws for psychedelic drugs.
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"In Oregon, voters will decide on a ballot measure that would allow psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms, to be used for medical purposes. In Washington, DC, voters could, in effect, decriminalize a range of psychedelic plants and fungi."
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How Could Your Ballot Be Rejected? Let Us Count the Ways
Pay attention to these five things when you vote.
Trump said the opioid epidemic would go away. It didn’t.
If Biden wins, he’ll have to be ready to do something about the opioid crisis.
Silicon Valley megadonors are unleashing a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump
Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz has put over $20 million into a little-known Democratic super PAC that is spending big.
The Real Divide in America Is Between Political Junkies and Everyone Else
Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues.
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We pay too much attention to the elite left-right divide in politics and way too little attention to the interested-uninterested divide. A politics by, and for, the politically obsessed emphasizes very different issues than the broader public wants.
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