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...system, however, the national polling average is not as valuable as individual state polling. It’s the states, not the whole country, that decide the election. To be elected president, a candidate must win more than 269 electoral votes, which are apportioned to the individual states based on the size of their delegations to Congress. With the exceptions of Maine and...

...system they feel has failed them, turned to “the Donald” as the saviour who “speaks their language”. Both these stories have been told many times over. But one aspect of the Trump phenomenon remains a puzzle. This is not about who Trump is, or who his voters are: the questions is what he is. Everyone seems to agree that Trump isn’t a politician in the true...

...systemic crises of capitalism, such as environmental degradation and the alarming growth in poverty and inequality within nation-states. As a result of this failure, powerful economic elites came to completely control politics through lobbying and corruption. In the US the so called political establishment, expressed in the shape of Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton,...

...Systems (GIS) to create a map divided into differently shaded areas that indicate the number of such features within them. However as well as quantifying the landscape in this way, the section also attempts to document its ‘special and evocative qualities’. Similarly, the ‘landscape areas’ section of the toolkit seeks to quantify land use and structural...

...system-wide changes. This question of scaling-up is crucial. While ‘capacity’ is a slippery thing to nail down, one core facet is education and knowledge exchange. It is here that open and distance learning has a powerful role to play. The UN’s high-level forum on monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals recently spoke of e-learning as a...