Polling: a look inside the machinery of public opinion surveys It’s dinner time in America. Somewhere parents and children sit down together to eat, to talk through their respective days, to enjoy precious shared time. The phone rings. “Hi, I’m Michael Jablonski,” says a man whose name is no doubt…
On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher delivered some advice to the Democratic Party in the wake of the unsuccessful recall election against Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker (R). The outspoken Maher advised that if Democrats would be more stubborn and intractable and less beholden…
BEIJING — A top Chinese government official has urged authorities to be “more forceful” in the way they manage the web, state media said, as Beijing tries to tighten online controls over fears of social unrest. Wang Chen, head of the State Internet Information Office — a government body set…