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California signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 | TechCrunch
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures w... (2025)
Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)
Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery
But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)
How to fix the Ivy League
Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership | Leaders (2024)
Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
The energy industry. A pioneering deal
Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer. Consolidation will transform America’s fragmented shale industry | Business (2023)
California cracks down on carbon. Business and the climate. Emissionary zeal
California’s crackdown on carbon will have international repercussions. It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire | B... (2023)
America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
Big business: America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple
Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)
The sports business: Which sport is the best business?
American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)
The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story
Move over, Bud Light. Heed the power of the Hispanic market | Business Bud light, Americas, self styled “king of beers“ for 22 years, is dethron... (2023)
Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China
Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)
Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control
Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)
Oregon botches the decriminalisation of drugs | The Economist
It failed to prepare the ground | Leaders Decriminalizing drugs: lessons from Oregon. States contemplating drug decriminalization need to prepar... (2023)
Chicago’s woes are over-hyped | The Economist
In fact, the Windy City could offer a model for change across America | United States (2023)
Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist
Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)
America Inc. - The Economist
From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)
Midwestern states want to become “hard-tech” hubs | The Economist
Putting their money where their machines are | United States (2022)
Why America’s clean-energy industry is stuck | The Economist
Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)
Why an agricultural boom does not help rural America | The Economist
Farms are ever more profitable, but employ fewer workers | United States (2022)
The Competition for High-Skill Immigrants Intensifies - Marginal REVOLUTION
The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of... (2022)
The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist
America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)
Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited
In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)
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)
Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
Supply Shortages - The Bottleneck Economy | The Economist
Supply shortages are acute in America | Leaders The coming global economic boom could have a sting in the tail… (2021)
In praise of America’s founding fish | The Economist
The Potomac river is a more vivid symbol of American history than any of the monuments along it | United States (2021)
Biden’s taxing problem - How to tax capital without hurting investment - The Economist
President Joe Biden should improve the design of his taxes on Wall Street | Leaders (2021)
Fintech comes to America at last | The Economist
The digital payments boom | Leaders (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)
Full interview: Ken Burns, The American Revolution, on "Face the Nation"
As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documen... (2025)
Why The World Is Rushing Back To The Moon
During the Cold War, competition between the the United States and the former USSR was fierce, as the two countries rallied for the chance to make ... (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)
Memory chips: How Micron is Building the Biggest U.S. Chip Fab
Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are responsible for making 90% of the world’s DRAM memory chips, and Micron is the only one based in the U.S. That’s m... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Solar panel canopies: How to fight climate change with parking lots
Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels? (2023)
The new land rush in Wyoming
Teton County in Wyoming is home to the widest income divide in America, with a median house price of more than $5 million and an average income of ... (2023)
The movement to shrink Oregon and expand Idaho
In a state dominated by progressive politics, some residents in rural Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains want to move the border so that their co... (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)
The Battle for Las Vegas
The Battle for Las Vegas (2023)
The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII
Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)
NATO - Summary on a Map
The history of NATO on maps, from the end of World War II, until the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.--------Support the channel on Patreon: https://... (2023)
Why didn't Puerto Rico become a US State? (Short Animated Documentary)
Many of America's 19th century territorial acquisitions became formal states in the 20th century but one notable exception is Puerto Rico. So why d... (2023)
Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary)
Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary) (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)
Alaska in 8K 60p HDR (Dolby Vision)
Explore Juneau, Alaska with us as we navigate through an Alaskan summer. We visited the Tracy Arm Fjord, Mendenhall Glacier, Pack Creek bears, Hoon... (2023)
Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert
Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert We spoke to US billionaire Marc Lore about his plans to build Telosa... (2023)
Amtrack - Why Train Tickets Cost So Much In America
Taking a train in the U.S. is often more expensive than flying and more expensive than intercity train systems in other developed countries, which ... (2022)
The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System
The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)
America’s opioid crisis - How the Mexican cartels are making profits now - The Economist
Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (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)
American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History
American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History (2022)
Water: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (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)
Ira Glasser on Free Speech | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
The former ACLU Executive Director and subject of the documentary, "Mighty Ira," joins Bill to disc... (2022)
What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow?
What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow? (2022)
The dark history of bananas - John Soluri
Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)
America's Truck Driver Crisis Is Complicated - 1A | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 1A on Spotify. Truck driving in America remains in crisis. There are 80,000 fewer drivers on the road than needed, acco... (2022)
Economic Consequences Of The Census - The Indicator from Planet Money
Listen to this episode from The Indicator from Planet Money on Spotify. The coronavirus pandemic, distrust of the government, and a surprising poli... (2020)
The Battle to Control the Murdoch Media Empire - The New York Times
Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets have helped destabilize democracy on three continents. The power struggle among his children has world-changing cons... (2019)
Social media's threat to democracy
The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)
Ghosts of Football Past
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Capitalisn't on Spotify. We’re taking a week off here at the end of the summer, but with Biden’s recent student loan an... (2022)
Nuclear power and America's clean energy future | On Point
President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill this week. Tucked into the plan includes the Biden administration's belief in the impo... (2021)
How Washington Now Works - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. On Tuesday, the United States Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure bill — the largest sin... (2021)
The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace
Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)
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)
Houston Astros - Sign Stealing - 99% Invisible Roman Mars | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the g... (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)
Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents
As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)
Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) - a16z
This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, selle... (2020)
Podcast - Section 230 CDA: Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet - Andreessen Horowitz
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)
Paul Riley: Launch of U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy Was Unnecessary
Three-time NWSL champion head coach Paul Riley didn't mince words in a recent interview when discussing the U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy. (2020)
Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change - Harvard Business Review (podcast)
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)
On Beeing - 99% Invisible
Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz
Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)
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)
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)
The Worst Way to Start a City - 99% Invisible
The area that is now Oklahoma was once a place called Indian Territory. Beginning in the 1800s, the U.S. government designated the land in the Grea... (2018)
Right to Roam - Walking across Private Land || 99% Invisible
When 99% Invisible producer Katie Mingle’s father Jim Mingle retired, he began walking —a lot. He’d always been a walker, but with more time, he to... (2018)
After the Storm: Marking 120 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Puerto Rico | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios
Today, on the 120th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, author Esmeralda Santiago joins The Takeaway to discuss the invasion ... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)
Should Facebook be regulated?, an episode from The New York Times on Spotify
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings on the company’s mishandling of dat... (2018)
Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation – Andreessen Horowitz
Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the topic of trade (or rather, economies an... (2017)
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, by Sam Anderson
Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (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)
The 1619 Project Curriculum
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
Free Speech Rankings - universities USA - College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and RealClearEducation have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a c... (2021)
Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor
Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)
IHME - COVID-19 Projections (state by state)
Explore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths (2020)
Human-Centered Computing BS Degree at RIT
HCC is about leveraging technology, exploring and adapting how people access and interact with it. Finding ways to integrate technology with our ev... (2019)
Poverty, and the cost of college
The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)
US Education Review - Google Slides - 2019 - Union Square Ventures
US Education in 2019 May 2019 (2019)
Hidden ivies - list of top liberal arts colleges in the USA - Google Sheets
liberal arts schools - beyond the Ivy League Claremont McKenna college,Claremont,California,private liberal arts college in Claremont, Californi... (2019)
shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet
shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet (2019)