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Gerrymandering distorts the will of the people, but the basic math of geographic representation makes it difficult to get rid of, unless we get rid of representation for geographic districts.

Over the last few years, we've seen more and more focus on using content moderation efforts to stamp out anything even remotely...

Yves here. America’s simple two-party system means we are unfamiliar with coalition strategies and complex preference-registering systems. Some of them like ranked choice are starting to be adopted in the US. Our Terry Flynn digs into where two approaches, ranked choice and more-least, produce similar and divergent results. By Terry Flynn, an NC regular who writes at Terry Flynn PhD and thinks hard and rigorously about matters like polling, voting, and other real-life areas where the interpretation of data matters yet is often done badly. Originally published at his website I recently reali...

I’m sure we’ve all seen the news that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Shopify, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. Pinterest, Discord, and Reddit have similarly cracked down on Trumpy content. Parler, a social network for people that find Twitter insufficiently extreme, has been banned from the Google Play store, and Apple has fired a shot across Parler’s bow that will probably end with the app being banned from the App Store. (Thanks to commenter Wyatt Salamanca for the above link and the reminder to write this post.) Is this good? That is a difficult...