Ariel Procaccia: Lotteries instead of elections? It’s not so arbitrary

Have you ever thought that 535 random people off the street would do a decidedly better job than the duly elected members of the U.S. Congress? If so, you’ve been scooped by a few millennia. The idea of selecting government officials at random, known as sortition, is neither as outrageous nor as original as it seems. Read More