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It’s Time to Ditch the Primaries
No CommentsThe single biggest flaw in our democracy is the primary system. We lament Russian hacking, political dysfunction, and toxic tribalism among voters, yet we ignore the obvious cause and an elegant fix.Read More »Dogs, Eclipses, and How to See Reality
No CommentsReflections on a summer of both wonder and discontent.Read More »How to Fix the NBA’s Tanking Problem
No CommentsThis is a guest post written by Danny Kleinman, a friend whom I met through our mutual interest in the problems with America’s electoral system. Here he applies his sharp mind and mathematical prowess to a smaller but vexing problem in the world of professional basketball: the perverse incentive to lose games, inadvertently created by the …Read More »
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