Just having plenty of money does not guarantee success fo an insurgent political movement in the US.
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The Trump administration wants to streamline federal food safety efforts under one roof as part of a sweeping new plan to reorganize government.
What do intercontinental missiles and Apple’s app store have in common? Alvin M Weinberg.
Some American voters hope that instant runoff can make our elections better. But a mathematician has an idea for another solution.
In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
Two mathematicians explain why majority voting often fails to elect the candidate preferred by the majority and propose an alternative, ‘majority judgment.’
The idea of the right to know as the ‘lifeblood of democracy’ is a surprisingly modern development. And in an age when transparency is prized, privacy and secrecy can still be justified in many cases.
A paradoxical situation seems to confront today’s political scene and the choices it generates. On the one hand, the market and its particular logic have come to dominate more and more human affairs. Even…
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