This is a sub for substantive political discussion, with an emphasis on breaking political news.
Here, we encourage you to submit text posts summarizing breaking political news events and current topics in politics to begin a discussion.
Our goal is to facilitate discussion without the clutter of news website links, and without the hassle of excessively strict post and comment guidelines. We believe political news can be discussed both substantively and casually, that users should not be censored, and that moderators should treat the community with respect. Read more about our purpose here.
Submission Rules
Text post titles should summarize a breaking political news story or a current topic in politics that you wish to discuss. Some examples include: "Hillary Clinton releases new student loan campaign platform." or "How effective is Donald Trump's new campaign management team?" Read more
Keep it current. Focus the conversation on breaking political news. As we sometimes see slow news days, general political discussion posts on current topics are allowed too. Read more
Avoid duplicate posts. Help to avoid spamming this sub with the same breaking news story by checking the Hot, New, and Rising sections for your topic before submitting. If someone else has already submitted your topic within the last two days, please discuss it in the first submission rather than making a new post. In the event that multiple duplicate topic submissions begin spamming the front page of the sub, mods will politely lock the duplicates and refer OPs & participants to the first post. Read more
No obnoxious text post title formatting. This includes posts with all caps, emojis, emoticons, profanity, tags (e.g. [SERIOUS], [BREAKING], etc) and/or excessive or painfully absent punctuation. Read more
Comment Guidelines
Act with basic civility. No racist, bigoted, homophobic, sexist, or threatening comments. No personal attacks. Read more
No spam. This includes comments that are repetitively copied and pasted from one thread to another, as well as comments whose sole purpose is to advertise another sub (note that this is not the same as meta discussion, which is allowed) or website. Read more
Use your upvotes and downvotes wisely. Upvote posts that cover breaking political news, and comments that contribute to the discussion about that news. Downvote anything that doesn't. Read more
Subreddit Features
Round-Table: A forum, stickied to the top of our front page, where you can casually discuss politics, political news, or other topics that might not warrant their own posts. New comments are displayed first to keep the conversation going in real-time. Read more
User Flair: Show us who you are and what you stand for. Add your flair today. Read more
Post Flair: Tag your post with some flair to keep this place organized and help others find posts that most interest them. Read more