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David Brooks - commentary, politics, society

David Brooks - commentary, politics, society

San Francisco - government, policy issues

San Francisco - government, policy issues

Geopolitical Consulting and Advising for International Business Risk Assessment

Geopolitical advisory is a niche but crucial sector where experts provide insights and counsel to...

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

The European Union - issues

The European Union - issues

Zimbabwe, Africa - culture, history, geography

Zimbabwe, Africa - culture, history, geography

Public vs. Private Markets and the role of Government - Political Divisions in the USA

Public vs. Private Markets and the role of Government - Political Divisions in the USA

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development

Regulation, red-tape and Infrastructure Investment in the USA

Regulation, red-tape and Infrastructure Investment in the USA

Student debt crisis and Political Divisions in the USA

Student debt crisis and Political Divisions in the USA

Medicaid - Healthcare USA

Medicaid - Healthcare USA

Homeless - Poverty in the USA - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, and Policy

a collection about homeless in the USA - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, and Policy

Politics, Culture and Team Building at Work

Politics, Culture and Team Building at Work

USA 2nd Amendment and Gun Control, Violence

USA 2nd Amendment and Gun Control, Violence

Gini Index - Wealth, Inequality, Business Taxes, and Policy

Gini Index - Wealth, Inequality, Business Taxes, and Policy

The Filibuster and Political Divisions in the USA

The Filibuster and Political Divisions in the USA

USA Elections 2020 and the Supreme Court

USA Elections 2020 and the Supreme Court

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Article

Populism and democracy; A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe

The real threat from Europe’s hard right. Europe is facing a new wave of right wing populism. Centrists need a new plan. In Germany, the AfD are ... (2023)


Article

De-growth: Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy

De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)


Article

Labour’s green industrial policy will not cure Britain’s economic ills | The Economist

Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)


Article

Classical liberalism vs. The New Right - Marginal REVOLUTION

It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical ... (2022)


Article

Twitter gets its hands dirty - by Casey Newton - Platformer

Two years after closing its PAC, the company has quietly begun giving away money again — starting with the Republican Attorneys General Association (2022)


Article

Liberalism And Its Discontents With Francis Fukuyama - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Capitalisn't on Spotify. Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and author, notably of The End of History ... (2022)


Article

Why America’s clean-energy industry is stuck | The Economist

Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)


Article

The Great Awokening is transforming American politics - Vox

White liberals are embracing progressive racial politics and transforming America (2019)


Article

What would James Madison have thought of the filibuster? - The Washington Post

An interview with a leading historian of Madison's political thought. (2022)


Article

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)


Article

Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional | The Economist

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too | United States (2021)


Article

David Brooks Reconsiders ‘Bobos in Paradise’ - The Atlantic

The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysf... (2021)


Article

Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist

As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction | United States (2021)


Article

The spread of permitless carry - Gun laws in the USA - the Economist

Looking down the barrel of a troubling trend | United States Many states are pushing through more permissive gun laws… (2021)


Article

Ever closer union?Europe’s radical economic response to covid-19

The EU can now borrow, but how well can the member nations spend? | Briefing (2021)


Article

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)


Article

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)


Article

Technology and geopolitics - The struggle over chips enters a new phase | Leaders | The Economist

The age of their manufacture in China could be beginning. Samsung in South Korea. TSMC in Taiwan... (2021)


Article

The Two Kinds of Moderate - Paul Graham essay

December 2019 There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberate... (2020)


Article

Record $564 Million Bet on Trump vs. Biden Presidential Race at Betfair, Double 2016 Election

Check out Darren Rovell's story about the betting odds and market for the 2020 Presidential Election. (2020)


Article

Charlemagne - The European Parliament: powerful yet puny | Europe

MEPs have plenty of clout, but no idea how to use it (2020)


Article

Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom

The news: Two political ads will broadcast on social media today, featuring deepfake versions of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean ... (2020)


Article

Does 4 years of college make students more liberal?

A survey examines how the college experience changes – or doesn't change – students' political views. (2020)


Article

Is The Electoral Map Changing?

We looked at how 16 battleground states have voted in the last five presidential elections to see how they might go in 2020 From one presidentia... (2020)


Article

QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. (2020)


Article

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)


Article

Facebook's new deepfake ban comes with a politician-sized loophole (2020)

According to Facebook's new deepfake policy, manipulated media posted by politicians will, in some cases, remain on the platform. (2020)


Article

Google rewards reputable reporting, not left-wing politics - The Economist

Seek and you shall find Our statistical study revealed no evidence of ideological bias in the search engine’s news tab... (2019)


Article

How Bruce Springsteen Helped Reelect Ronald Reagan | National Review

For all of its gloomy words, and despite Springsteen's left-wing politics, “Born in the U.S.A.” became an American anthem. The song roars. It defie... (2019)


Article

COPY, PASTE, LEGISLATE You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead.

An investigation by USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity (2019)


Video

David Brooks: The Root Causes of Populism, Authoritarianism and The Whole Global Mess

World On Fire: Right-wing populism is surging worldwide, in places as diverse as India, the Netherlands, Argentina, France and the United States. W... (2024)


Video

How Curiosity Will Save Us | Mónica Guzmán | TEDxSeattle

For Mónica Guzmán, curiosity isn’t a muse that flits by when we wonder about something. It’s the most powerful tool we have to navigate our world, ... (2022)


Video

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)


Video

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes the Problem of Dark Money in Politics | NowThis

‘We have a system that is fundamentally broken.’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is explaining just how f*cked campaign finance laws really are. » ... (2019)


Video

Congressional Fundraising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Apr 3, 2016 Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of r... (2019)


Video

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

TED talk, 2017: "We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an ey... (2017)


Video

Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election - Christina Greer

TED ed: "District lines, and the groups of voters within them, may seem arbitrary, but a lot of thought (and political bickering) is put into thes... (2017)


Video

Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight, 2017: "Lawmakers often reshape voting districts to shift the balance of political power. That's unfair to voters, even those of us... (2017)


Video

Nationalism vs Globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari - TED Talks

TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Understanding Exclaves and Enclaves

Understanding Exclaves and Enclaves Normally, if a foreign country has you totally surrounded, that isn’t a good thing. However, in some parts o... (2021)


Podcast

The Supreme Court may disenfranchise you now - Vox | Today Explained Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for m... (2020)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Supreme Court - Amy Coney Barrett’s originalism - Vox | Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. The judge isn’t saying much in her confirmation hearing, but Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains ... (2020)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Facebook And Twitter Remove Russia-Backed Accounts Targeting Left-Leaning Voters

Researchers say one of the operation's goals was to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign ahead of the November election. (2020)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Another 'Civil War'? Pessimism About Political Violence Deepens In A Divided Nation : NPR

Following a rash of deaths, threats and violent acts, Americans fear the nation may be growing so far apart that danger may become a regular factor... (2018)


Podcast

Supreme Court Leaves 'Wild West' Of Partisan Gerrymandering In Place — For Now : NPR (2018)

The court on Monday, in twin partisan gerrymandering cases from Wisconsin and Maryland, said either that challengers didn't have standing or didn't... (2018)


Podcast

Gerrymandering - 99% Invisible

The way we draw our political districts has a huge effect on U.S. politics, but the process is also greatly misunderstood. Gerrymandering has b... (2018)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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)


Book

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)


Website

Voter Information - Miami 2018

Our online Voter Information tool allows you to read your customized sample ballot, request a mail ballot, check the status of your mail ballot, an... (2018)


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