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In Gallup’s original polling manifesto, intensity hadn’t mattered: if a poll was a “sampling referendum” designed to guide legislators, as Gallup argued, then every “vote” should count equally, ...

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In 2004, following Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, foreign minister Silvan Shalom said the only question was why it had not happened sooner. We should keep ...

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Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...