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a collection of articles about Malaysia
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a collection of articles about AI Machine Learning - in Politics, Policy, Elections and Government
Geopolitical advisory is a niche but crucial sector where experts provide insights and counsel to governments, multinational corporations, and other entities regarding global political, economic, and social trends.
Medicaid - Healthcare USA
Rising Healthcare Costs in the USA
a collection of articles about universal health care
a collection about Social Media and Depression
Politics and Liberal Arts Education in the USA
a collection of articles about Corporate Taxes - rates, policy and legal issues - USA
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Do the algorithms inside of YouTube push viewers towards extremism and conspiracy theories?
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Issues, decisions and debates after hurricane Maria, 2017

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Article

Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”

Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)


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Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right

Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)


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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)


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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)


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

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


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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The truth about big oil and climate change - Big oil and the environment - The Economist

IN AMERICA, THE world’s largest economy and its second biggest polluter, climate change is becoming hard to ignore. Extreme weather has grown more ... (2019)


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I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It - The New York Times

This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robe... (2018)


Article

Spies Are More Common, and Boring, Than You Think - Bloomberg

If you keep looking for James Bond, you’ll miss the thousands of bureaucrats collecting bits of intel. (2018)


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The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem - Opinion | The New York Times

Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives... (2018)


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A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash - The New York Times

Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted crisis. (2018)


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How powerful are Malaysia’s sultans? - The Economist explains

IT HAS been two years since the scandal surrounding 1MDB, a Malaysian state investment firm from which billions of dollars have been looted, began ... (2018)


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Russian tech investors set up shop in Silicon Valley | CNBC

Drokova's new fund comes as relations between the United States and Russia remain fraught and foreign investments of all types into U.S. technology... (2018)


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Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments - The New York Times

Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has ... (2018)


Article

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)


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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)


Article

The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else

Bloomberg, 2017: "West Houston’s Energy Corridor was hit with a wall of water to avoid a catastrophic reservoir failure. The Army Corps of Engi... (2017)


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Trouble in the Congo: The Misadventures of Glencore — Business Week

What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (2018)


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Taking Back Power: An Upstart Government Plans to Tokenize Energy - CoinDesk

“The plan is to incentivize solar power generation by circumventing rules inhibiting its adoption... trading is not with the utility company but be... (2018)


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)


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The Great Awokening is transforming American politics - Vox

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


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)


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

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

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)


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)


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)


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