Scientific American has fallen a long way in content over the years.
I know, right? (As kids say) The Founders weren't using mathematics to determine who should be president. Arithmetic, maybe. I never thought of math as a way to shorten the word, arithmetic. Anyway it isn't about science, which is supposed to be about fact and logic, it's about politics which is a very emotional subject at times. You have to have a system which tempers the results of emotionally driven decisions because wars can start or genocides can happen or communists could take over.