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Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich have taken the podium positions in the 2020 IMD-SUTD Smart City Index Report, a collaboration between IMD and Singap... (2022)
Because the state makes it impossible not to be | Asia (2025)
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)
Muddled laws give them wide discretion | Britain (2025)
Free speech debate in Europe and the DSA Digital Services Act. It’s becoming dangerous to anger minority groups and politicians | Europe (2025)
Foolish crusades against landlords have made housing shortages worse | Leaders (2025)
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)
Reshaping the French capital and its banlieues | Europe (2024)
But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)
Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)
It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored | Special report (2023)
Rivals on the Rhine. It is not how things used to be | Europe (2023)
Deutschland AG’s bright light bulb | Business (2023)
Special report, the world economy. Introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams | Special report (2023)
It is not a big enough player in AI | Europe (2023)
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)
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)
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
An industrial arms race is underway. America, welcomes it, saying the world needs green technologies and a diversified supply of chips. But, Subsid... (2023)
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)
Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)
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)
The government is favoring firms at the heart of a tech transformation. We crunch the numbers on the country’s most valuable startups | Business (2023)
Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)
The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)
America’s Supreme Court grapples with their fiercely contested “Section 230” immunity | United States (2023)
Governments must accept that green power is pricey | Leaders (2023)
From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)
Putting their money where their machines are | United States (2022)
Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)
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)
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)
Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels? (2023)
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)
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 Singapore Solved Housing (2022)
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)
Thanks to brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallac... (2020)
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
LastWeekTonight Published on May 19, 2014 John Oliver covers the new European law that would allow people to erase themselves from internet sea... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 21, 2016 Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores w... (2018)
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)
LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 3, 2014 The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That's not ... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Feb 8, 2015 Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues w... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Jun 22, 2014 John Oliver outlines what, exactly is problematic about Dr. Oz and the nutrition supplement industry.... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Oct 26, 2014 Sugar. It's in everything! Is it good for us? Well, the sugar industry thinks so. Connect with Last... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Nov 9, 2014 State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens. But are they? (Sp... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Nov 15, 2015 Daily fantasy sports sites claim they are not gambling enterprises, but they seem awfully…gamblish. I... (2018)
TEDx Talks Published on Nov 4, 2015 Driven by surprising data and punctuated with the raw stories of real working mothers, Jessica Shortall makes... (2018)
Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn’t run sappy Mother’s Day ads. (2018)
Cities want football teams. Owners want stadiums. In the past 20 years, over $7 billion in public money has gone towards financing the construction... (2018)
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)
Going green does not need to be a sacrifice, either for us as individuals or for businesses, governments and the economy. This is the second episod... (2018)
More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)
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)
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)
Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all... (2025)
The capital gains tax. The Biden administration wants to raise it. But why is capital taxed less than work to begin with? (2021)
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)
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)
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)
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)
This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)
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)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)