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Oil in Brazil. The perils of Petrobras
Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (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)
Software power. How India is using digital technology to project power
Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative | Asia Once known as the “India stack”, the... (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)
What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?
Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)
Is Pandemic Australia Still a Liberal Democracy? - The Atlantic
How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country? … “ is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in ... (2021)
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)
Northern Ireland, born of strife 100 years ago, again erupts in political violence
Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK terri... (2021)
Taiwan’s revolutionary hackers are forking the government | WIRED UK
They overthrew the government. Now they have to work out how to govern “Fork” is used in open source communities to describe the process of crea... (2021)
Turn on the spigot - The EU’s €750bn recovery plan comes one step closer
It’s part of an overall €1.8trn package (2020)
Charlemagne - The European Parliament: powerful yet puny | Europe
MEPs have plenty of clout, but no idea how to use it (2020)
MIT - Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism
For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a... (2020)
Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA
Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playi... (2020)
Finland Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here’s What Happened. | HuffPost
The world's most prominent trial of universal basic income has ended -- and the first results are in. (2019)
Code for America promotes citizen-driven government with $2 million investment from Knight Foundation
Code for America expands program to promote citizen-driven government in the digital age, with a new $2 million investment from Knight Foundation -... (2018)
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
France’s Pension Reforms: Why Is There So Much Opposition? | WSJ
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (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)
USPS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial catastrophe, John Oliver discusses why the service is so important, what brought it to this point, and w... (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)