The Ezra Klein Show Podcast Creators & Guests

Dr. Leslie Jean Reagan is a historian who specializes in the history of American medicine and public health, women, gender, and sexuality, disabilities, visual culture, and 20th century U.S. social history. Currently, she is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Reagan's first book, "When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973," was published in 1997. Her second book, "Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America," was published in 2010.Reagan received her B.A. in Economics with a minor in History from the University of California Davis, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Jerusalem Demsas is a journalist. Currently, she is a Staff Writer at The Atlantic, where she writes about institutional failure, particularly as it relates to housing and infrastructure in Democratic states and cities, touching on issues of citizen voice, gentrification, and interstate mobility. She has written extensively on housing policy and NIMBY-ism both at The Atlantic and at her previous outlet, Vox Media, where she co-hosted the politics and policy podcast "The Weeds."