How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?
Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis.Children in school are fainting from hunger; patients are dying from the lack of basic medicine. As prices spiral ou...
11 Touko 201723min
How did North Korea get the bomb?
Tensions between the US and North Korea are running high. Kim Jong-Un has been testing long-range missiles and nuclear weapons. The Trump administration wants Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons prog...
4 Touko 201723min
Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality – from the Stone Age onwards – and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge “economically use...
27 Huhti 201723min
How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?
There is a place on the internet where almost two billion of us regularly go – many of us, every day. Facebook: the social network which Mark Zuckerberg started in his university dorm room and which h...
20 Huhti 201723min
What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?
In 2014 marijuana was legalised for recreational use in Colorado and Washington states in the US. Oregon, Alaska, California, Nevada and Massachusetts have all followed. These votes were the result of...
13 Huhti 201723min
Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?
It’s two years since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in support of the Yemeni government which was ousted by Houthi rebels. The war has been a disaster for countless civilians. Thousands ...
6 Huhti 201723min
Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?
At a recent press conference on the new US budget questions were asked about funding for climate change initiatives. The answer was stark. “We’re not spending money on that anymore,” reporters were to...
30 Maalis 201723min
What’s Wrong With France?
Every candidate in the upcoming presidential election in France is calling for change: change to the bureaucracy, the economy and even the culture. France, they say, is broken; society too divided, un...
21 Maalis 201723min
