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Why Indonesia is unlikely to ban booze - The Economist explains
FOR a country with the world’s largest population of Muslims, Indonesia is remarkably permissive. Night spots in Jakarta, the capital, and on the r... (2018)
How Could Indonesia Make Sure Subsidized Rice Was Really Getting To Poor People? - NPR
Indonesia had a program to provide subsidized rice to the poor. But thousands of kilos didn't make it to the recipients. (2018)
Lost Water in Amman, Jordan
The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)
MST in Brazil: If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It - The New York Times
The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)
How land value tax could fix the housing crisis | World Economic Forum
Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say. Land value tax is a tax on... (2022)
The tax on unrealized capital gains - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe I don’t understand how the supposed plan is supposed to work. There is no tax credit for unrealized capital losses, right? So you won’t wan... (2021)
Fake Comments on Net Neutrality Rollback to Cost Companies Millions - The New York Times
The state attorney general’s office reached an agreement that levies millions in penalties on third-party services that generated the comments. (2021)
This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO
The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, belie... (2021)
Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)
Stop the EARN IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption | EFF Action Center
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. - The New York Times
News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. (2020)
Congress, Not Amazon, Messed Up the Post Office - (opinion) Bloomberg
“ Then there is the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA), which some have taken to calling "the most insane law" ever passed by... (2020)
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. - The New York Times
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensi... (2020)
U.S. researchers must share results to quickly combat coronavirus
By simply requiring that scientists funded by U.S. tax dollars openly share the results of their work, the Trump administration can end the needles... (2020)
Opinion | The Reign of Recycling - The New York Times
It’s still costly and inefficient. So why do we keep doing it? (2020)
IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law - The New York Times
A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users. (2020)
Can Starbucks Save the Middle Class? No. But It Might Ruin Higher Education - Chronicle of Higher Education
The much-hyped partnerships between companies and universities might make college too expensive for the rest of us. (2019)
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair | U.S. PIRG
Delegates of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which represents 58,000 member families, voted 176-1 to formally endorse the right of its constituents to re... (2019)
The Paris Metro's New Problem: a Ridership Boom - CityLab
The good news: Transit ridership is booming in the French capital. But severe crowding now has authorities searching for short-term solutions. (2019)
California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times
The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness. (2019)
Opinion | How to Stop the Abuse of Location Data - Foursquare - The New York Times (2019)
There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change. In the op-ed, Jeff (Foursqu... (2019)
What's Behind Lyft's Battle Over Bikeshare Access - CityLab
Why did Lyft block users of a third-party app from accessing New York’s Citi Bike? It’s the start of what could be a fundamental showdown over mobi... (2019)
How to Understand Municipal Zoning Codes - CityLab
Don’t know your R1 from your FAR? We’re here to explain how zoning laws work, how these ordinances shape your city and neighborhood, and why we fig... (2019)
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First? - The New York Times
As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect. (2019)
A Political Shift in Madrid May Doom its Car Ban - CityLab 2019
With more conservative leadership moving in after elections, the Spanish capital’s pollution-fighting regulations on private vehicles may be in dan... (2019)
Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower - CityLab
The most famous space in the city is set to get a pedestrian-friendly redesign that will create the city’s largest garden by 2024. (2019)
Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries - The New York Times
Other cities have combined books and subsidized housing, but the outgoing mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has embraced the concept with three striking new pro... (2019)
Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story - CityLab
Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand. (2019)
8 cities are taking space away from cars to cut pollution
Cities around the world are starting to see that they’ll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if people–not cars–are the priority. (2019)
Plastic plates, cups, cutlery to be banned in EU by 2021
Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation. (2019)
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)
Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government
Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government (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)
The law that broke US immigration - Vox
Why the US has so many undocumented immigrants. Immigration looked very different before 1996, when President Bi... (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)
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)
'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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)