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The statistician with a knack for predicting political elections (and just about everything else) is back in the limelight, tweaking his polling-based forecasts. Although his FiveThirtyEight web site lacks some of the luster it once had when it was at The New York Times, 2016 may be yet another year when Silver is the king of the nerds as politicos flock to him for prognostications.
Power 50: Nate Silver
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Years before Stonewall, a cafeteria riot became a breakthrough for trans rights
All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.