Reinvent Podcast

Our political system has been hacked by time, circumstance, chaos, and disaster, says UC Berkeley Economics Professor Brad DeLong. He pointed to the failings of the electoral college, the fact that "small states hacked the constitution in 1787, so we now have a world in which the minority in the Senate represents 175 million people, while the majority represents 145 million people", and the gerrymandering after the 2010 census as the primary examples of this dysfunction.