Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

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From test coupons and burn-in chambers to ICT and flying probes, effective factory testing is essential for delivering reliable products and maintaining process control. Factory testing comes in ...