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Brexit explodes the ambiguity that underpins Northern Ireland - Charlemagne
CROSSING the border between Northern Ireland and his home in the south always left the young Gabriel D’Arcy sweating. But that is because he was in... (2017)
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime (2017)
How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)
Net Neutrality Is Just the Beginning
The internet faces a choice: corporate monopoly or public control. (2017)
Why I don't Support Net Neutrality - Think Liberty
It seems that lately where ever you look, someone is talking about net neutrality. There are a lot of arguments, and I'm going to address one's I'v... (2017)
Why Europe needs more migrants - Daily chart
EUROPE’S biggest countries were once among the biggest anywhere. In 1950, four of the world’s ten most populous states were in western Europe alone... (2017)
The EU’s Eastern Partnership - Disappointed suitors
THE question of where Europe’s eastern border lies has bedevilled statesmen for centuries. It has proved equally difficult for the European Union, ... (2017)
For our freedom and yours - Charlemagne
Poland’s illiberal turn poses a wicked dilemma for the European Union. IF EUROPEAN history once seemed to have arrived at its terminus in 1989, it... (2017)
What can the EU do to punish Poland? - Policing the club
IN THE mid-1990s, as the European Union began expanding eastwards, its politicians faced a tricky question. To join the bloc, countries had to comm... (2017)
Getting business moving again - Into gear
THE WORD “FACTORY” does not do justice to Bugatti’s state-of-the-art production site in the shadow of the forest-clad Vosges mountains in eastern F... (2017)
Emmanuel Macron is trying to change France’s psychology - Charlemagne: Exorcising Marx in France
STRANGE rituals have been taking place behind closed doors in Paris this summer. While much of Europe basked on the beach, elaborate rites and unfa... (2017)
Why France is facing a butter squeeze - The Economist explains
BARE shelves in food shops have been a sadly common sight in Zimbabwe or Venezuela, but are surely unimaginable in wealthy, well-run France? Yet in... (2017)
An overhaul of Brazilian labour law should spur job creation - Bye-bye, Benito
IN THE litany of bosses’ gripes about Brazil’s inclement business climate, rigid labour laws vie for pride of place with its convoluted tax laws an... (2017)
Brazil’s army is becoming a de facto police force - Daily chart
THE last time a big Brazilian city was attacked was in 1711, when a French corsair briefly captured Rio de Janeiro. The country’s official defence ... (2017)
Reducing Brazil’s pension burden - Less gold for the old
THE faded modernist façades along Copacabana’s beachfront hark back to Brazil’s optimistic past. The seaside promenade, where walking sticks outnum... (2017)
Modernising Brazil’s waste-picking trade - Swipe right to recycle
EVERY night Gabriel Cazuza drags his two-wheeled, metal-framed carroça through the streets of São Paulo collecting aluminium, paper, cardboard and ... (2017)
Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick
Cities | The Guardian | The brazen drug scene of Cracolândia is unlike nearly anything in any city in the world – hundreds and sometimes thousands ... (2017)
Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World
Although it is a business powerhouse, Germany's economy is dominated by pre-internet companies. Now the country is realizing that if it wants to re... (2017)
Germany’s Chinese investment problem – POLITICO
European firms are being snapped up by China companies, and that’s causing headaches in Berlin. (2016)
How US students get a university degree for free in Germany - BBC News
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international ... (2017)
Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation - Harvard Business Review
Three factors that push the country ahead. Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innova... (2014)
How Germany abolished tuition fees - BBC News
How have German universities been able to abolish tuition fees when English universities are charging £9,000? More than a million young people wil... (2017)
Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers - The Atlantic
America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed? "According to the most recen... (2017)
France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
GCR - Trends - The minister told a conference of transport authorities last week that the tenders for the “Positive Energy” initiative had already... (2017)
France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country | ZDNet
French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private ... (2017)
Welcoming Tech Talent from around the World to France
A visa for international Start-Up Founders, Tech Employees & Tech Investors to settle in France. The French Tech Visa is a simplified, fast-track ... (2017)
What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap? - The New York Times
The most frustrating part about its system is that it’s misused by those on both the left and right who want to hold it up as an example. (2017)
Sweden Wants To Fight Our Disposable Culture With Tax Breaks For Repairing Old Stuff
A proposed new law takes aim at wasteful consumerism. (2016)
Cable Cars and Urban Renewal in Medellín, Colombia
Cable Cars Are Changing the World – How We Get To Next On the slopes of the seven hills that surround the city of Medellín in Colombia, life is ... (2017)
Delivery drones and flying cars. China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
Airborne packages and people will soon be whizzing through China cities. The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to domi... (2025)
Switzerland, Norway and Iceland REFUSE to join the EU. Why?
Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland: three nations with deep European roots that remain outside the European Union, despite their geographical and cul... (2024)
The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film
The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)
H-1B visa holders: How The U.S. Lost Thousands Of High-Skilled Workers To Canada
On July 16, 2023 Canada opened visa applications for a pilot program that would allow up to 10,000 H-1B visa holders in the United States to apply ... (2023)
Solar panel canopies: How to fight climate change with parking lots
Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels? (2023)
How the U.S. Government Broke the Everglades | Everglades National Park
After a devastating hurricane and chronic flooding issues, the US Government, along with the State of Florida, embarked on a project which would ch... (2023)
A Faster Way to Get to a Clean Energy Future | Ramez Naam | TED
When it comes to cost, clean energy is bound to beat out fossil fuels, says technologist Ramez Naam. But the hesitancy to build amid the prevalence... (2023)
Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots | WSJ
From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)
How Denmark took a hard line on Immigrants | Foreign Correspondent
‘What is Danish?’ asks comedian Ellie Jokar. Born in Iran, now a Dane, Ellie struggles to understand why her once friendly country has pulled up th... (2023)
How Singapore Solved Housing
How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)
The Real Reason U.S.Highways Are Always Under Construction - Cheddar Explains
Wherever you drive, highway construction seems unavoidable, but U.S. roads have needed so much repair and maintenance, you start to wonder if we’re... (2022)
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)
Simpson's Paradox - Statistics
Thanks to brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallac... (2020)
Warren’s Wealth Tax, reviewed - “A better way to tax the rich” - VOX
American wealth inequality is staggering. A wealth tax, which would hone in on the money people actually have, rather than just the money we earn a... (2019)
Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The UK could officially leave the European Union next month, which would be a huge change with hugely damaging consequences. Connect with Last Week... (2019)
TEDed - What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)
Documentary: Barcelona and the Trials of 21st Century Overtourism – Skift
Is the world ready for two billion travelers? This is the question we repeatedly ask ourselves as we wait in line at tourist attractions, watch entire (2017)
'We The People' for The Global Goals
A new plan for people and planet has just launched - the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Tell everyone! add your very own intro to thi... (2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
Understanding the Dimensions of Sustainable Development
simpleshow Published on Aug 22, 2017 The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Goals for Sustainable Development are an ambitious commitment of the world comm... (2018)
How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030 | Michael Green | TED Talks
TED Published on Nov 3, 2015 Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governmen... (2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
'We The People' for The Global Goals
A new plan for people and planet has just launched - the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Tell everyone! add your very own intro to thi... (2018)
How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030 | Michael Green | TED Talks
TED Published on Nov 3, 2015 Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governmen... (2018)
Understanding the Dimensions of Sustainable Development
simpleshow Published on Aug 22, 2017 The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Goals for Sustainable Development are an ambitious commitment of the world comm... (2018)
Right To Be Forgotten - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
Charter Schools - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 21, 2016 Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores w... (2018)
What if we ended the injustice of bail? | Robin Steinberg - TED
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. Th... (2018)
Native Advertising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 3, 2014 The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That's not ... (2018)
Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on Feb 8, 2015 Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues w... (2018)
Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight Published on Jun 22, 2014 John Oliver outlines what, exactly is problematic about Dr. Oz and the nutrition supplement industry.... (2018)
How subsidies helped Montreal become "the Hollywood of video games" : Planet Money : NPR
For decades, Montreal has used generous tax subsidies to boost its video game industry. The policy has succeeded, but the city may need to keep the... (2022)
Work V. Wealth: Capital Gains Tax, Explained | On Point
The capital gains tax. The Biden administration wants to raise it. But why is capital taxed less than work to begin with? (2021)
Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive. - Should This Exist? - Podcast
Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)
The case for ending the filibuster - Vox
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Even if Democrats win the White House, take the Senate, and hold the House, most of their ... (2020)
Babbage: Apple's Epic battle - The Economist | Podcast
Babbage from Economist Radio on Spotify. This week a judge heard the first arguments in an antitrust case that could reshape the software ecosy... (2020)
Ex-Officials Call For $46 Billion For Tracing, Isolating In Next Coronavirus Package
Leading former federal health officials Andy Slavitt and Scott Gottlieb are leading a call for $46 billion for specific measures in a next coronavi... (2020)
Podcast: The long path to a post-pandemic reality
MIT Technology Review’s editor-in-chief Gideon Lichfield explains the key testing and tracing measures we’ll need before we can even think about ea... (2020)
Episode 166 — Fence-building vs. Axe-wielding | Exponent
Ben and James discuss Senator Warren’s proposal to break up Big Tech, including why its history is wrong, why details matter, and what needs to be ... (2019)
National Sword - 99% Invisible
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)
Europe's Direction in 2019 | Council on Foreign Relations
Matthias Matthijs joins Jim Lindsay to discuss Europe in 2019. (2019)
YC podcast #97 - David Hua and Vincent Ning, an episode from Y Combinator on Spotify
David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)
India Aims For The World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul : NPR
Posh private hospitals give world-class care — and serve lattes. At government facilities, cancer patients sleep on the sidewalk. But the prime min... (2018)
In Miami, Combating Climate Change Street by Street | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios
In light of sea-level-rise threats, local organizations have begun to shift their missions towards resources and solutions in greater Miami that co... (2018)
The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing – Andreessen Horowitz
This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)
Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide - Brad Feld
Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup communi... (2023)
Common Core - National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy, by Nicholas Tampio The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most contr... (2017)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)