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Statistician David Spiegelhalter’s instructive new book shifts from trivial issues of probability to the risk of getting ...

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Democratic power and how the ideas of the German thinker Carl Schmitt (1888 – 1985) help us think through liberal government and authoritarianism as we hit party conference season ...

CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.

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